| High-Carbon Lignite Impedes German Climate Policy
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Guest article from Jefffrey H. Michel about CCS, brown coal (lignite) in Germany and the problems with the German climate politics.
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| 2010 again what PEGE does since 1992
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Create awareness about the necessary speed and magnitude of the change to renewable energy. An energy prognosis of PEGE in 1992 for 2040 better than most current ones.
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| CSS not competitive?
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If carbon capture should be mandated or subsidized in the European Union, a possible result of 12 current pilot projects,
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| Less full load hours at coal power plants
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Under the German Renewable Energy Sources Act, conventional power plants have been subordinated to alternative technologies that are granted priority access to the grid.
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| Lignite power plants and open-cast mining
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These installations collectively emit 57 million tons of CO2/a. Lignite is employed both from the company’s own mines and from the MIBRAG mining corporation near Leipzig.
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| Lignite composition
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Mined lignite consists of one third elemental carbon that is permeated with residual groundwater, mineral impurities, and sulphur deposited by prehistoric volcanoes.
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| Lignite worthless for export
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The calorific value lies at 7.8 to 10.5 MJ/kg, half that of firewood, necessitating three times the fuel tonnage of hard coal (27 - 33 MJ/kg) in power generation.
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| Germany mines 175 million metric tons (Mt) of lignite
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or brown coal, per year for producing one quarter of its electricity (150 TWh/a) in 22 GW of mine-mouth power stations.
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| Break through at lithium batteries
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Much longer service life and an evident reduction at the production costs. A new generation of lithium energy storage crucial for oil exit and climate protection.
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| Baile Herculane in Romania
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From the last visit of my wife 1995 until 2009, a frightening decay of the famouse rheumatism bath happend, where even the old Romans cured their rheumatic deseases.
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| Impressions from Romania 2009
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August 2009 on the way in Romania
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| Luxury hotel 1995
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The sign now mocks visitors that visit the ruin that what was once an international cultural monument and luxury hotel.
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| Photovoltaic offer with electricity storage
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With electricity storage, it would be possible to offer for 1 million inhabitants instead of 80 MW photovoltaic factrory 400 MW and to save with this 6 times more natural gas.
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| Renewable energy depends from storage for electric power
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Applied Materials wants to sell photovoltaic factories, but why only 80 and not 400 MW for a town with 1 million inhabitants? Without storage technology is not more possible.
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| Intersolar 2009 photovoltaic fair
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Fair report from the Intersolar 2009. It is possible to built up solar energy as fast as the production of crude oil and natural gas decreases.
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| Lithium battery as electric power storage
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Basic calculation models for lithium an electricity storage. The textbook to recognise early, at what applications is rentability already given, or is short before rentability.
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| Water from seawater
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Seawater desalination plants at lowest energy consumption under 2,5 kWh per m³ drinking water! Utilizing the Pressure Exchanger energy recovery system in combination with
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| CO2 carbon dioxid interest
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Who takes a credit has to pay back because of the interest much more. Also at the greenhouse gases, interest exists, the unfreezing permafrost grounds worsen the situation.
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| Water demage by cut downspout
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You want to get rid of a cultural monument protected building? Maybe a cut downspout is the preferred method.
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| Energy for the future
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Who has energy can solve problems. Examples over methods and magnitudes for the future energy supply of mankind.
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| Street Washed Out
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Yesterday used, today a hole in the street. Presumably by under washing the street. Material was carreid away by water until the surface collapsed.
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| IEA WEO crude oil price and production
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Comments to an interview in international politic April 20008 The sirens scream, Talk from Astrid Schneider and Fatih Birol.
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| Wall break through
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Want to install a natural gas stove in a building protected as a cultural monument? Very simple - punch a hole in the wall for the chimney.
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| Downspout removed
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At all this cultural monument protected building are at the roof all downspouts removed
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| European cultural monument
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A historic marker for an internationally protected cultural monument. In 1995 this historic building was used as a luxury hotel for visitors of the health resort.
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| Hole in street
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I drove down this street with my car on August 17th and stopped just in time to avoid this large sinkhole. It will be a big surprise for all the foreigners that drive way too fast...
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| Tabula Traiana
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The board has been taken higher when the Danube water power plant had been built 1972. Now only to visit from the water. Here had been once the Roman military street Danube south.
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| Cooling on the house
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A hotel in Herculane from a time where architects thought that an additional radiator is cheaper than thermal insulation. The concret beam on the concret wall cools additional.
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| Downspout cutted
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At this also under international cultural monument protection beeing building is the
downspout cutted.
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| Wall erosion
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Maybe this wall erosion was caused by a removed downspout.
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| Dragan Fecit
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The Monumen of the Daker king Decebalus is created 40m high in the rock. What looks like an ancient memorial is created from 1994 to 2004.
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| Greatest stone sculpture in Europe
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The Danube down seen to the left is this 40 m heigh sculpture created in the rock.
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| Photovoltaic or solar collector
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Best of all 100% of the roof surface with photovoltaik and 100% with Sonenkollektoren. This goes by a new technology which unites both functions in the same surface perfectly.
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| 350 billions tons CO2
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Fossil energy is something extrem short term, solar energy will be at last 4 billion years. A compare of fossil energy vs photovoltaic.
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| Franz Alt! 18 degrees.No! Thanks!
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Franz Alt propagates 18 instead of 24 degrees of ambient temperature, however, there is nothing more superfluous than to freeze at 18 degrees in a solar house with an electric power and warmth combination system.
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