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Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty
Bürgerwindparks, den wir seit über zehn Jahren gemeinsam mit einer kleinen Gemeinde bei Ludwigslust planen. Too big to fail gilt offenbar nicht nur im Finanzsektor, sondern auch für Energieinfrastruktur. Wenn man bedenkt, dass Mecklenburg-Vorpommern das Bundesland mit den meisten Untätigkeitsklagen wegen verschleppter Genehmigungsverfahren von Windprojekten ist, hat die LNG-Genehmigung für Rügen...
Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out
Nuclear Energy Company (ENEC) verfolgt demnach das Ziel, ein internationaler Akteur im Bereich der Kernenergie zu werden. Über Minderheitsbeteiligungen will sich das Unternehmen an Anlagen und Infrastruktur in verschiedenen Ländern beteiligen, ohne diese zu verwalten oder zu betreiben. [...]Der Anteil der VAE an den gesamten ausländischen Direktinvestitionen in Großbritannien lag 2021 bei 0,4...
Sicherheitssystem. Eine Utopie. Nichts sollte unversucht bleiben, den Krieg zwischen der Russischen Föderation und der Ukraine zu beenden. Letztlich droht hier neben der Zerstörung der Infrastruktur, der Natur und der Auslöschung von Hunderttausenden Menschenleben die Gefahr eines dritten Weltkrieges mit dem Einsatz von Nuklearwaffen. Dies würde den Untergang auch alles bisher zivilisatorisch...
Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany
it was about funding for power plants or new nuclear technologies... IMHO Nothing new from Brussels. The usual suspects are screaming for more money... * Energy transition | network operator | Infrastructure Is the nationalization of electricity transmission networks inevitable? New power lines are needed for wind and solar power. The costs increased due to the underground cabling. Network expansion stalls...
Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD
which gets the energy it needs from the forty-year-old Susquehanna nuclear power plant. * Türkiye | Syria | Kurds Turkish air strikes on northern Syria illegal Attacks against civilian infrastructure must be viewed as possible war crimes For months now, Turkey has been bombing hospitals, power stations and water pipes in areas inhabited by Kurds...
it is therefore still lacking. Lindner wants to bundle the different competencies within the national fight against money laundering in a new authority with sufficient staff and a modern IT infrastructure. The project still has to be approved by the Bundestag. * Party ban in a defensive democracy AfD ban as capitulation: There needs to be a spiritual change Banning the AfD...
This is used to operate generators, which in turn generate electricity. [...] The great advantage of abandoned mines for such projects is that the necessary basic infrastructure - the underground shafts, the lift systems and a power grid connection - already exists there. The deeper the system and the wider the shafts for entering the mine, the higher the...
Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?
are calling for the approval process for the expansion of the Lingen fuel element factory to be terminated. Russia's explosive role is being kept secret. The Kremlin's access to nuclear infrastructure must be prevented. The nuclear company Framatome wants to build fuel elements for Russian-designed reactors in Lingen under license and with the cooperation of the Russian state-owned company Rosatom...
Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support
be history. There are already enough good examples. For this we need a lot of private capital, but also targeted and powerful investments by the state in our country's public and social infrastructure - schools, railways, bridges, social housing. Otherwise no company or private individual will invest money to address the investment backlog of the last decades...
how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an economy. The state has three levers for this. Firstly, it can subsidize, i.e. subsidize the conversion of factories, infrastructure, the car fleet and houses with a lot of money. That costs a lot of public money. Secondly, it can ban climate-damaging activities. This always bothers some powerful lobby and therefore needs...
At the time, the report was commissioned by the BI with the support of individual municipalities and districts. “However, it should be clarified promptly what effort may still be required for a robust transport infrastructure,” was the ESK’s note. [...] "That the BGZ did not carry out such a study before determining the Würgassen location for the LoK as part of the...
THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023
(e.g. nuclear power plants) that are planned and implemented from above. The FZ Jülich is therefore left with the preliminary decision on the “suitability of land areas for renewable energies and hydrogen infrastructure” as well as the assessment of the “socio-political context and development opportunities”. The five-member national project group is made up of “different...
But climate change is warming these permafrost and causing them to thaw. This is already causing landslides, holes in the ground to open up and lakes to overflow. Human infrastructure is also affected: roads, railways and settlements are damaged and sink into the mud... * October 30, 1961 (Tsar bomb AN602) Novaya Zemlya, USSR Nuclear weapons A - Z The detonation of the...
Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism
American company Westinghouse Electric about the possible construction of an AP1000 reactor. In June, the two companies agreed to study the potential of Bulgaria's industry and infrastructure at the Kozloduy site to support the AP1000 project. Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Farmers | Right-wing radicals | Disinformation |...
Salvini wants to change that – and is calling for a new referendum. He already has a location in mind. There are efforts in Italy's right-wing government to return to nuclear energy. Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini named 2032 as the deadline to put a new nuclear power plant into operation for the first time. The leader of the smaller government party Lega also suggested...
Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread
after the energy supply problems triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to entice governments to make massive, unnecessary investments in the expansion of fossil gas imports and infrastructure. The floating LNG terminal with a length of 280 meters finally reached the port. It was actually supposed to be put into operation on September 15th to...
When it comes to the German coast these days, the political debate mostly revolves around the planned liquefied natural gas terminals - whether they are all needed and also how the fossil infrastructure pollutes the environment. It was almost forgotten that Germany's coasts experienced a double whammy in the expansion of offshore wind energy this summer. For a long time there was little change in offshore wind power...
should the costs be passed on to all consumers nationwide? Then customers of municipal utilities who have no or hardly any wind turbines in their network would also pay for the expansion of the infrastructure in other parts of Germany through their network fees. The head of the Federal Network Agency recently supported this. * Drinking water | Ocean | Seawater desalination Desalinating water: Oceans - the new source...
Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson
and manufacturing process were a mystery for a long time. Roman concrete, also known as opus caementicium, was a material that the Romans used in a variety of structures and infrastructure, from aqueducts and roads to temples and baths. [...] Unlike modern concrete, which often begins to crumble after a few decades, Roman concrete has the ability to...
Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine
Germany is now more expensive to develop than renewable energies. However, it is incomprehensible how poorly Germany is prepared for the energy transition. There is still a lot of catching up to do, particularly when it comes to expanding infrastructure, such as power lines between northern and southern Germany... * United States | Fascism | Don Trumpl expert on fascism in the USA: “With Trump’s...
