Schwarz-Gelb agrees on longer nuclear power plant operating times - the stupid talk and back-patting of the bought and turned proletarians disgusts me the most.
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Federal Environment Agency demands car toll | tagesschau.de - wouldn't it be nice if the media reported correctly, or? In WDR (by the way, one of the ARD affiliated broadcasting stations) the head of the authority had to point out several times in the interview that he and his authority by no means demand anything, but only considered how such a toll - if it were to come - should be designed in a meaningful way. It was not about "toll or not", but rather about "if toll, then how?". And in doing so, an annual vignette or similar flat-rate models were deemed nonsense and only a toll variable according to actual use with recording of the use would be sensible. And the topic of data protection was also addressed and the problems that arise from it. The basic problem is that the revenues from motor vehicle-related taxes and fees only cover part of the costs for federal roads and highways, around 46 billion euros are borne by the general public. And then a facility responsible for environmental issues thinks about how a regulation with a toll could look and how this could be used to distribute road use and cost coverage more fairly and perhaps also to get a bonus for environmental pollution. But normal procedures are not causes for excitement - which is why WDR also stirred up drivers against a previously unpublished study (and by no means a demand) in the morning. That's quality journalism in Germany.
"You can't handle nuclear waste like this" - but nuclear power is just so great and disposal is no problem at all, as is often mentioned in the CO2 debate. Will we humans ever learn to learn from our mistakes?
White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail - as long as such behavior prevails in e.g. the USA, nothing will change. And unfortunately, it's not just in the USA, here too, some people define their freedom by the (lack of) speed limit on highways ...
What the end of the world looks like - «Approximately 20 million curies, half as much as during the Chernobyl disaster, were released», explains nuclear expert Vladimir Kuznetsov. A radioactive cloud drove a veritable swath of contamination hundreds of kilometers into the Urals. But containment of the accident damage only began ten hours later. The local administration waited for a signal from Moscow.
"Amflora" comes: EU wants to allow BASF potato - "Germany, along with Sweden and others, is among the supporters - after all, BASF is a German company."
Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we? - how plastic waste accumulates in the ocean and enters the food chain (and thus onto our plates) via fish. More plastic than plankton - shocking.
Study: Nuclear power - neither cheap nor good for the climate - because uranium mining is conveniently ignored by the nuclear lobby. Combined heat and power plants, on the other hand, are more efficient and better - but they don't require the monstrous equipment that energy monopolists would need.