1. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    Person erklärt, das Mar Menor. In den USA ist in einer Kommune eine Reissorte vor Gericht gezogen, die heilig für die Ureinwohner ist, sie heißt Manoomin. In Ecuador hat ein Nebelwald, unter dem Rohstoffe abgebaut werden sollten, vor Gericht gegen seine Abholzung geklagt und gewonnen. Und Indigene mehrerer Pazifikstaaten haben kürzlich Walen den Status von juristischen Personen verliehen. Wale...

  2. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    That is three times the amount of greenhouse gases that a country like Germany emits. At the same time, the limitations of the method become clear: emissions from the combustion of fossil raw materials such as oil and gas are almost 20 times greater. There is no way around reducing greenhouse gases, despite improved waste disposal. * Lawyers | Basic Law | Constitutional Court Joint appeal...

  3. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    Estimated by South Korea to be 6 to 7 kilotons of TNT equivalent, which is about half the yield of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. German experts from the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) estimated the explosive force at 40 kilotons... UN sanctions and consequences As a consequence of this nuclear weapon test, the UN Security Council decided unanimously on March 7, 2013 to...

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

    Newsletter VI 2024 February 4th to 10th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

  5. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    The highlight: the process is quick, economically profitable and also renders the toxic heavy metals in the red mud harmless. Steel and aluminum are among the most important metal raw materials in the modern world. But their production is anything but environmentally and climate-friendly: the steel industry is responsible for around seven percent of global CO2 emissions, the largest...

  6. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    Millions of tons of ammonia, which requires more than one percent of all energy produced worldwide. In addition, the production of ammonia has so far been inextricably linked to the extraction of fossil raw materials, because the required hydrogen is produced from coal or natural gas using steam reforming. The Haber-Bosch process releases 450 million tons of carbon dioxide every year...

  7. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    ... * Greenpeace | Ocean | Deep sea mining Greenpeace activists on occupation: “Deep sea mining destroys oceans” Two activists want to stop a ship from searching the Pacific floor for raw materials. They say deep sea mining is like the oil industry. taz: The Canadian company “The Metals Company” is exploring the seabed in the deep sea off the Pacific island of Nauru because...

  8. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    Clearcutting on a large scale! It can be seen that the current trade policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, with the participation of the SPD, FDP and the Greens, with its focus on one-sided import of raw materials and energy, is hardly different than that of China. To get an idea of ​​the dimensions of the proposed green hydrogen production, we should remember that...

  9. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    Newsletter XLVII 2023 November 19th to 25th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

  10. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    "informal colonialism". France is currently losing its influence in the former colonies in West Africa and is withdrawing completely from Niger, from where it was previously able to obtain strategically important raw materials such as uranium at preferential prices. Apart from such long-term consequences, there remains a little-noticed remnant of colonial history in the form of territories that still belong to the old...

  11. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    there to protect these rights and must be respected... * November 11, 1983 (INES 3) Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR Accidental transfer of 59 TBq of radioactivity with solvents and raw materials from building B205 to a sea tank in building B242. (Costs approx. 44 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Slowly but surely all relevant information about disruptions in the nuclear industry is...

  12. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    Newsletter XLIII 2023 October 22nd to 28th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

  13. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    from solar panels and electric car batteries to the construction of geothermal power plants: so-called critical minerals and rare earths are needed everywhere. Cornwall's geology is rich in such raw materials... * October 15, 1958 (INES 4) Boris Kidrič Institute, Vinca, YU 6 workers were exposed to a high dose of radiation, one of them died a few days later. (Cost?) Nuclear Power...

  14. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    Newsletter XL 2023 October 1st to 7th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

  15. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    the energy and water industry (BDEW). The expansion of renewable energies plays a central role for the federal government in order to create climate goals and become more independent of fossil raw materials... IMHO In purely mathematical terms, we could be at 10% renewable energies within 100 years, and with a little good will even sooner. Despite this, huge amounts of money are still...

  16. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    applies. The fact that the traffic light introduced the amendment to the law in the Bundestag in the week of the "Ambitions Summit" can only be described as cynical... * Protected areas in the deep sea | Raw materials It's all about practice. Germany signed a historic high seas agreement in New York. But you need the capacity to implement it. [...] After all, for the first time...

  17. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    In order to cushion the loss of income for their farmers due to increasingly frequent droughts and to import food for their own population, rising world market prices for raw materials are contributing, among other things, to famine in West Africa and the Sahel... * Greenpeace Ranking shows savings and climate protection potential for the energy sectors , transport and agriculture The dismantling...

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

    Newsletter XXXVI 2023 3 to 9 September *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 Current+ background knowledge Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of the civil and military atomic industry . Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way...

  19. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    Newsletter XXXIII 2023 August 13th to 19th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 News+ Background knowledge Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military nuclear power industry . Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way...

  20. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    Green energies are already so competitive that they would displace fossil fuels elsewhere in the world... * Uranium and rare earths are the most sought-after raw materials in the south of Greenland Raw materials for transformation: Greenland relies on rare earths There is a huge deposit on the Arctic island Deposits of the sought-after metals. Given the current demand,...

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