1. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    seien »die vielleicht letzte Chance, eine Trendwende in der Mitte noch rechtzeitig zu schaffen«. IMHO Wer dem militärisch-industriellen Komplex nachrennt, gehört zum Establishment. * Finnland | Speicher | Fernwärme Weltgrößter Warmwasser-Langzeitspeicher Ab 2028 sind 90 GWh unterirdisch über Monate speicherbar. In der viertgrößten Stadt Finnlands beginnen die Arbeiten für den weltweit größten...

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    Intervention by politicians or the big media. Even some human rights organizations weren't always sure whether Julian's life was even worth protecting... * Batteries | Power storage | Electric car e-vehicles with a 15-year guarantee: CATL presents a battery with a mileage of 1,5 million kilometers and no loss of capacity after 1.000 charging cycles CATL already has battery packs...

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

    If we want to stabilize the temperature of the planet at all, we have to achieve structural change. This is not a debate about renunciation, but a debate about structural change."... * Würgassen | Battery storage Former Würgassen nuclear power plant site will become a battery storage facility One of the largest battery storage facilities in Germany is to be built not far from the former Würgassen nuclear power plant. Its capacity will...

  4. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    that long-term aid may be necessary because German companies cannot assert themselves on the solar market. Labor costs in other countries are simply lower... * Electricity storage | Compressed air With pressure to electricity Compressed air storage in Münsterland is intended to store large amounts of electricity. The idea behind it is not new, but now it could be in for a renaissance...

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

    to think away. They form the basis for numerous battery-powered applications that not only make everyday life more efficient, but also more enjoyable. But widespread energy storage is not perfect. For example, the low energy density of batteries makes their use in electric cars difficult. The sometimes long charging times make “refilling” the batteries a test of patience...

  6. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    the transformation to a large hydrogen production site. A hydrogen pipeline will soon run from Lingen in Emsland through western Münsterland, past the Gronau-Epe hydrogen storage site, to the customer centers in the Ruhr area. Lingen electrolyzer site: RWE and BP plan large-scale hydrogen production For the energy supplier RWE, Lingen is...

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

    Stop a million Palestinians. Most of them fled there before the war from other parts of the Gaza Strip, partly on orders from the Israeli military... * Finland | Power storage | Underground One of Europe's deepest mines is being converted into a battery. A huge prototype of a gravity battery is to be built in a Finnish mine. The Pyhäsalmi mine in...

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

    Clock supply power. According to the China Global Television Network (CGTN), the system consists of 11.960 heliostats, i.e. large, computer-controlled mirrors. [...] solar energy is stored in salts. The receiver at the top of the tower receives the concentrated solar energy. The energy is used to heat a liquid mixture of salts. Salts can reach high temperatures...

  9. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    of over 170.000 wells around the world, which appeared in the journal Nature. Researchers in more than 40 countries measured how underground water reservoirs developed over 40 years. The result: In over 30 percent of the aquifers scattered around the world, the water level fell at an ever-increasing rate. In 13 percent of the reservoirs, the water level fell during the study period...

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

    via chemical conversion to carbon and hydrogen How to convert air CO2 into carbon fibers Combination catalysis creates solid carbon nanofibers from carbon dioxide Innovative carbon storage: Chemists have used a new approach to convert the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into a useful material - into carbon Nanofibers. This is made possible by a tandem reaction,...

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

    Kilowatt hours is the net electricity import from Norway's hydroelectric power plants. There was also a particularly large net inflow from Denmark at 10,3 billion kilowatt hours... * Photovoltaics | Storage | Battery NRW's largest photovoltaic roof system is being built in Ennepetal. The Siegfried Jacob Metallwerke recycle metals such as copper, bronze, aluminum, zinc and brass. The energy-intensive...

  12. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    cracked the 100 percent mark. There will be more and more phases in which we produce more electricity from renewable energies than we consume. It will therefore become increasingly important that storage is used. As expected, the energy system coped with the exit from nuclear power without any problems. Everyone who wanted to provoke blackouts was proven wrong... *...

  13. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    a deepening of the 1980 constitution of the dictator Pinochet... * CO2 emissions | CCS | 1,5 degrees negative emissions Blue Carbon: Carbon in paradise Seagrass beds off the Bahamas store significant amounts of CO2, a new study finds. Without removing CO2 from the atmosphere, the 1,5 degree target can no longer be achieved. Both natural and technical approaches...

  14. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    The conference president Sultan Al Jaber spoke of a “historic package”. It is a robust action plan to keep the 1,5 degree target within reach * Brokdorf | Wind energy | Battery storage Storage instead of nuclear power: Brokdorf nuclear power plant is to get an XXL battery. Nuclear power plant operator PreussenElektra has made a concrete proposal for the reuse of the decommissioned nuclear power plant in Brokdorf. The...

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

    with the CSU and Free Voters. FW party leader Hubert Aiwanger demands that new projects be financed and operated by citizens if possible... * Energy transition | Solar energy | Storage energy transition: Solar energy will soon dominate the global electricity mix. According to a study, measures that have already been implemented have meant that solar energy is already on the way to...

  16. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    to the MSZ Machinery Manufacturing Plant JSC in the small town of Elektrostal, 60 kilometers from Moscow, is already available, reports Umweltfairaendern.de... * Solar power | EnBW | Electricity storage Retrofitting is also being examined. EnBW is making battery storage standard in new solar parks. Solar power is an important part of the energy transition in Germany. A big problem is...

  17. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    instead of forcing them into crippling and anti-citizen energy tenders. Introduction of incentives for local system-serving investments with a mix of all renewable energies, storage and sector coupling. A combined cycle power plant tariff could achieve this. This is the only way the political will can be implemented: a steep, exponential expansion of renewable energies,...

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

    be delivered. If it is not needed there, it can happen for hours that up to 20 percent of the wind turbines come to a standstill, explains Kost. In the future, storage technologies will therefore be an important part of the solution: "Hydroelectric power plants, pumped storage power plants: Significantly more batteries have now been installed , both in buildings and in the power grid."... *...

  19. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    before resuming full operations on August 28. Kepco also wants to restart block 2. When exactly is not yet clear... * Battery technology | Hydrogen production | Electricity storage combination battery is a battery and a hydrogen factory at the same time Zinc-based system stores electricity and produces hydrogen when discharging Technology for the energy transition: Researchers have...

  20. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    Experience from the tests shows that systems sometimes differ greatly in terms of performance, reliability and ease of use. In this list of the best we show which balcony power plants with and without storage function most reliably in practice... * Green hydrogen | photosynthesis | Enzyme breakthrough: Enzymes produce green hydrogen with 90% efficiency Green hydrogen can be...

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