Tag: Energy research
How the polluter cement should become climate-neutral
Dusseldorf Climate experts call it “the gray danger”: Concrete is one of the worst climate sinners. Almost eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions can be traced back to the…
The EU needs hydrogen “Made in Europe” – also with the help of nuclear energy
hydrogen Transportation is expensive. Guest authors Joseph Delatte and Georgina Wright call for the EU to produce more hydrogen. The EU needs more decarbonised hydrogen in order to achieve the…
Dispute: Porsche board of directors against Greens climate boss: How useful are e-fuels?
Michael Bloss (left) and Michael Steiner The climate boss of the Greens and the Porsche development board in a dispute. (Photo: Imago, Getty Images [M]) Dusseldorf, Brussels The dispute between…
Tesla builds battery factory in Shanghai
Shanghai The electric car manufacturer Tesla plans to build a battery factory in Shanghai. The manufacturing facility is intended to complement the production of the so-called “megapack” batteries in California,…
Toyota will focus on electric cars in the future
Tokyo The Japanese carmaker Toyota wants to drastically increase the production of electric cars without neglecting other drives such as internal combustion engines and fuel cells. That is the message…
Federal government underestimates the need for gas-fired power plants
Berlin An additional 25 gigawatts (GW) of capacity in gas-fired power plants: Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) expects this to be the case by 2030. According to this, 50…
Gas importer VNG writes high losses due to the energy crisis
VNG Group headquarters in Leipzig The gas supplier wants to focus more on green gases. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The East German company VNG slipped deep into the red in 2022…
In fact, the new heating law hardly differs from the first draft
Heat pump on the house wall The topic of hydrogen was also included in the original draft. According to this, heating systems for the use of green hydrogen were permitted.…
Better climate, less hunger – the photosynthesis revolution
Improvement in photosynthesis An international research project relies on genetic methods to improve photosynthesis in plants. (Photo: Imago [M]) Dusseldorf Plants are small power plants. From sunlight, water and carbon…
Ban on oil and gas heating: This is planned
Gas meter in a residential building There is now a deadline of 2045 for the replacement of oil and gas heating systems. (Photo: IMAGO/Bihlmayerfotografie) Berlin Shortly after the coalition committee,…
Ban on oil and gas heating: This is planned
Gas meter in a residential building There is now a deadline of 2045 for the replacement of oil and gas heating systems. (Photo: IMAGO/Bihlmayerfotografie) Berlin Shortly after the coalition committee,…
Federal government agrees on ban on new gas and oil heating systems
Christian Lindner, Robert Habeck, Olaf Scholz (from left) After the coalition committee, the FDP, Greens and SPD have agreed on the final details. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The traffic light coalition…
Why it is wrong to phase out nuclear power now
nuclear power plant On April 15, Germany finally says goodbye to nuclear power. While many other EU countries continue to rely on nuclear power, Germany will shut down its last…
France fails with nuclear power push in the EU
French nuclear power station Saint-Laurent-Nouan For Paris, the agreement is a setback in the attempt to advance nuclear power as an alternative to renewable energies in Europe. (Photo: Reuters) Brussels…
Widespread use costs up to 310 billion euros
Synthetic fuel bottle E-fuels are produced from water and carbon dioxide (CO2) using electricity. (Photo: dpa) Vienna, Dusseldorf The internal combustion engine will not disappear completely in Europe. The technology…
Lilium starts building the production jet
tubingen Daniel Wiegand, co-founder of the air taxi start-up Lilium, does not want to be thrown off course despite all the adversities. “We have started to build molds for the…
This is what you need to know about synthetic fuels
Production of e-fuels The hydrogen start-up Sunfire produces synthetic fuels. (Photo: Sunfire) Berlin From 2035 onwards, new cars that run on petrol or diesel will no longer be allowed to…
There is a phantom debate about e-fuels
E fuel E-fuels are inefficient, cars fueled with them require almost five times as much energy per kilometer as a battery car, and they are correspondingly expensive. (Photo: dpa) Should…
Network operators calculate with 128 billion for network expansion
wind turbines and power lines The grid operators calculate that the expansion of the transmission grids is likely to cost many billions. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The operators of the electricity…
Italy wants to bring green hydrogen from Africa to Germany
Snam gas compressors on the border with Austria 1.7 megatons of hydrogen could be exported from Italy to Austria and Germany per year. Milan, Berlin The Italian pipeline operator Snam…