From Claus P. Baumeister. The “riot” in the village of Lützerath, now lost to coal mining, took its course. In addition to creative, non-violent techniques, some activists unfortunately did not shy away from the use of fireworks and stones on…
During the COVID pandemic since 2020, governments all over the world followed the advice of the scientific experts and took rigorous measures in order to stop the spreading of the virus which still killed millions of human beings. There is…
INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY STORAGE AND SYSTEMS CONFERENCE Bonn, December 23, 2023: You are cordially invited to submit an abstract for the 17th IRES conference via our submission platform conftool until June 15, 2023 for oral and poster presentations. All submitted abstracts…
EUROSOLAR SUMMIT meets at the end of the year, calls for dramatic expansion of actions and activities in the explansion of RE to over 100% and ramping up of emission reduction targets to below zero to reduce atmospheric concentrations, reaffirms…
The world is excited by the UN ‘biodiversity’ COP15 declaration by 190 countries to conserve at least 30% of the global ecosystems by 2030. This is a bold sounding call but upon closer examination inadequate a slogan. Shockingly, and minima…
The speed with which Germany managed to build and link up its nation-wide thermal and electric energy system to completely replace all fossil and nuclear energy sources is the heart of a new, pacier German economy, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has…
Dear friends, Two topics still occupy me at the end of the year: 1. buzzwords from “(double) whammy” to “relief” and “price brakes” to “shortage of skilled workers”. I had already commented sufficiently on the “double whammy” and the hype…
from Claus P. Baumeister 23.11.2022, Many are trying to artificially gloss over the questionable outcome of COP27 – despite all of its frustrating aspects. There is not a single point in real terms that could justify the monetary and climate…
Issue the Joint Girona Regenerative Earth Declaration of Renewable Energy and Sovereignty. On occasion of the successful two-day International Conference on Renewable Energy and Sovereignty held in Girona on 21st and 22nd November at the Josep Irla Auditorium, with the…
Peter Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. Peter is an academic who has written 20 books and over 350 papers on sustainable cities with a global reputation and has worked to deliver his ideas…