1. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    would rather sell the expansion and operation of the high and extra-high voltage networks to the federal government than take greater risks themselves. If the transmission system operators simply run out of capital, the balance between the north-east and the south of the Republic and thus the energy transition will fail. To date, the transmission networks as well as the distribution networks have been subject to the state...

  2. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    which was put into operation last year. [...] The five members of the Georgia Public Service Commission have ruled that the company cannot generate additional return on equity after March 30 through a construction surcharge imposed on Georgia Power's 2,7 million customers. The construction budget will not be affected provided Unit 4 is operational by June 30...

  3. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    had urged the elected president. This was met with vehement cheers from thousands in “Constitution Square,” the central location in Guatemala’s capital... * United States | capital | Income Class struggle from above in the USA The 700 richest US citizens have accumulated $8,5 trillion in capital gains. These should now be taxed. According to current estimates, pay...

  4. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    make. A cleverly designed, decentralized and citizen-oriented energy transition in all sectors can be such a story. 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...

  5. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    If I have anything left, Germany would like to take the rest. This is a grotesque reversal of dimensions, as we will see. After the "mileage fraud" of 1883, there is now a major "quantity fraud" at the expense of the Namibian population. Only a third of the rural population has an electricity connection. First of all, power lines would have to be built...

  6. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    their usual content for the big fossil companies. BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and Total Energies benefit from their reach. “The fossil fuel industry wants to build social capital among young people,” says Melissa Aronczyk, professor of communication and information at Rutgers University. Because for many young people, the oil companies would have...

  7. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    Pension funds are increasingly investing money in stocks, real estate and funds. At the federal level, Finance Minister Christian Lindner proposed this model at the beginning of 2023 under the keyword “generational capital”... * Renewables | Energy transition | Electricity consumption Renewable energies cover more than half of the electricity consumption Wind, sun, biomass: The share of renewable energies in...

  8. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    increasingly expensive, but President Macron would rather use the population's savings than change course. [...] The state partially privatized the company 18 years ago in order to increase its capital. Now privatization has been reversed. Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire spoke of “excellent news for the French”. The recovery of...

  9. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    Nuclear fusion as a long-term solution is no longer necessary because the expansion would take far too long, not to mention the high costs, lack of final storage and high safety risks... * FDP Fossil Capital | E-Fuels | Combustors Obscene partisanship for fossil capital The FDP is a marketing measure in the portfolio of powerful industrial associations such as the automobile industry, says Leo Fischer The European...

  10. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    currently only about 30 meters from the entrance to the town. Nevertheless, a government in which the Greens are involved is now ensuring that several police forces are ready to defend capital against the resistance of coal opponents. Although Section 48 of the Coal Phase-out Act, on which the eviction is based, is illegal. And we need the Garzweiler II opencast mine...

  11. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    Wissing continues a decades-long misguided practice by the Federal Ministry of Transport: more asphalt for everything that drives fast on four wheels... * Excess profit | Renewable | Revenue capture of capital worth “billions” for wind power and photovoltaics in the far north is blocked. Schleswig-Holstein’s renewables industry is sounding the alarm. The planned skimming of profits from green power producers endangers...

  12. Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN

    and is confident that pacifism will one day prevail because of these drives. Rather, I fear that what is undoubtedly good in people is completely powerless against the structural violence of capital. Peace would have to be a better deal than war, then it would have a chance. However, I believe in the easy recognition of structural violence. And that from...

  13. Newsletter X 2022 - March 07th to 11th - News+ Will the world end sooner than capitalism?

    Citizens' initiative for environmental protection in Hamm, Hamm against nuclear power, Climate Alliance Hamm, Forum for the Environment and Fair Development (FUgE) *** Top of page News+ background knowledge *** News+ March 07th ** Capital | growth | Climate catastrophe Will the world end sooner than capitalism? The limits to growth are becoming noticeable. Nevertheless, Olaf Scholz calls for a “clear commitment to growth”. There is...

  14. Newsletter LVIII - December 20th to 26.12.2021th, 20 - News+ December XNUMXth - Blackout-proof with green electricity: Is Germany armed against dark doldrums?

    - Translate with https://www.deepL.com/translator (free version) * Investment December 21, 2021 - These technologies are crucial for the climate transition - and urgently need capital * Finland Olkiluoto December 21, 2021 - Nuclear power plant closes at 13 years Delay to the network * Blackout | Energy transition December 20, 2021 - Energy transition without blackout risk surprisingly simple and...

  15. 28.03.2011/XNUMX/XNUMX - Tepco is the end of the market economy

    In 2010 their report Vision 2020 (2) (document (PDF) (3)). A manifesto of sustainability, CO² savings and social responsibility. With success: On September 29, 2010, Tepco was able to raise new capital amounting to $3,2 billion. Purpose according to the stock exchange prospectus: "Construction of emission-free nuclear power plants." On September 13, 2010, the Dow Jones Sustainability Index recorded its first...

  16. THTR Newsletter No. 135 May 2011

    and a terrible, long-lasting nuclear power catastrophe is affecting people, the lobby for a special nuclear power plant variant is trying to capitalize on this catastrophe in the truest sense of the word. The economic beneficiaries of research on pebble bed reactors as part of the new planned Generation IV reactors appear in the journalistic announcement organs of...

  17. THTR Circular No. 112 April 07

    of Karlsruhe and Jülich were already organized to make secrecy easy and to exclude parliamentary controls. Therefore, they have the status of GmbHs, and although 90% of the capital and budget comes from the federal government and 10% from the states, they are considered private companies. The federal government uses the two nuclear research centers for secret...

  18. THTR newsletters from 2005

    possible. Export permit. Namibia: Uranium robbery for the THTR-Hamm! Namibia's plunder and destruction for the profits of the nuclear industry. Colonialism. Rössing and Langer Heinrich. German capital on the Cape. Collaboration between German industry and the apartheid regime (book review). Gandhi lived in South Africa for 20 years: "I bring the good news that I have finally been arrested...

  19. THTR Circular No. 88 February 04

    a parliamentary resolution on an exit law similar to the German model" (hopefully with more success!; HB). The conference will take place on February 16th and 17th in Cape Town. German capital in the Cape Top of page Gottfried Wellmer, author of the article "The significance of ESKOM for the apartheid system" in THTR newsletter No. 84, together with Birgit Morgenrath, wrote the above-mentioned book...

  20. THTR Circular No. 91 July 04

    modern stab-in-the-back legend in which the great international future of the HTR was destroyed in its own country: "Knizia complained that the high-temperature reactor had been 'strangled', i.e. capital had been destroyed, even though nothing was more necessary than investment capital." In May 1991, the "Atomwirtschaft" (atw) wrote regretfully that it had not been possible to "commission a specific project...

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