Also the Ukraine war, with a lot of the energy deals with Russia being cut. A lot was done back then.

What’s wrong with that? The entire point of subsidies it to encourage people to do something that’s not currently very economical.

That the guidelines allow for fossil gas power plants. So basically battery storage has to compete with free power plants with maintenance also being paid by the government.

Yes day to day selling is profitable. However dunkelflaute is about two weeks a year in Germany. If you want to do that cheaply, you could just use biomass in the current coal power plants. That can be done pretty cheaply. I know biomass has issues, but they are certainly less bad, then building new gas power plants.

They are already working on it. The new storage subsidies they are working on require use a week long storage base line, which is too long to be sensible for batteries. Those are fairly expensive per unit stored, but have relatively low losses. So perfect for short term or daily storage, but less good for an entire week. A good system combines both. Short term storage for the night and long term using hydrogen or biomass for dunkelflaute.

Pricing zones help match the reality in the power grid to the electricity market in a geographical sense. That still means infrastructure has to be built. For example today the weather is generally sunny in Germany, but there is little wind. Being able to store a good bit of the electricity for the night, when the sun is not shining, would really help a lot. Also if you use pricing zones, that probably would lead to more connections between the zones being built.

This really does not scream the end of the USSR to me at all. Like the EU has a much stronger economy relative to the US and more importunately the EU does not believe there will be a full scale war against the US. This is about having the ability to deploy military means without the express permission of Washington. That is much more easily done.

The US controls the CPUs and the battle field software and the mobile phones and at least the German military hosts everything in Google data centers.

That is actually not true. The German military bought Google software to run it in German data centres for the military.

Source in German: https://www.bwi.de/magazin/artikel/google-cloud-und-bwi-geben-partnerschaft-bekannt

Walmart bought British Asda a few years later. They sold it since, but it worked out decently well for them. They also own stores in a lot of other countries outside of Europe, which certainly have a different culture.

If I wanted to build any sort of US software competitior, I would go out and claim it is insanely AI to get funding.

Walmart doesn’t exist in Europe. How come?

Walmart has a huge variety of products, which are low value dense and need to be restocked a lot. At the same time people are generally price sensitive. Delivering a full truck of a single brand of say frozen pizza to a store is probably overkill. As in it requires a lot of storage space in the store until it is sold. That increases cost. So you need to take in the truck into a distribution centre and then send trucks with all kinds of frozen products to multiple stores. That creates a pretty strong moat. Combine that with culture and branding and it becomes really hard to enter a market.

If you have fewer products to sell, that becomes a lot easier. McDonalds has been able to set up restaurants all over the world. Thanks to having a pretty limited number of products to sell. That is also how German supermarket brands like ALDI and LIDL have been able to conquer most of Europe.

Kennst du den eine die besser ist als Ecosia und Qwant? Der Open Web Index ist halt nur ein Index und keine vollständige Suchmaschine. Damit kenne ich nur vier Suchmaschinen außer Ecosia und Qwant mit eigenem Index und das wären Google, Bing, Baidu und Yandex. Da ist mir Ecosia mit Bäume pflanzen und Sitz in der EU am liebsten. Übrigens die KI Zusammenfassung kann man bei Ecosia abstellen.

Lies mal den Artikel. Ecosia gehört einer Stiftung, die sicher stellt dass der Gewinn für den Naturschutz eingesetzt wird. Die meinen das also durchaus ernst.

Zum Glück ist VOLT eine wählbare Partei.

Die AfD ist in Sachsen-Anhalt kurz davor die absolute Mehrheit zu holen. Volt ist wahrscheinlich am nächsten zu den Grünen und die sind in Sachsen-Anhalt laut Umfragen bei 4,6% also unter der 5% Hürde. Wenn die Grünen reinkommen, gibt es recht sicher keine absolute Mehrheit für die AfD.

Von daher bitte nicht Volt wählen. Die waren bei der Bundestagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt bei 0,6%.

Yes, but it is not always an option. Europe has plenty of islands and also large bodies of water making flying party a lot faster. For example Mallorca, Sicily and Ireland as islands and also going from Athens to say Naples or Riga to Stockholm might be possible with trains, but the journey will be much longer.

Nur so zum einordnen die Blender Foundation hat 2024 3,1Millionen € eingenommen und ausgegeben.

Das geht halt am Ende in beide Richtungen. Sprich wenn linke Frauen einen Partner haben wollen, der nicht rechts ist, dann ist das Angebot dort begrenzt und einige werden keinen abbekommen.

Last year Germany produced 5% of fossil gas consumption, 2% of oil consumption and no hard coal domestically. Lignite and renewable are fully domestic however. Even with hydrofracking it would not be close to enough. The only realistic way is to end oil, gas and hard coal consumption in Germany.

Source in German: https://ag-energiebilanzen.de/wp-content/uploads/AGEB_Infografik_04_2026_Importabhaengigkeit_2025.pdf

However this is different. A German company sold a gas rig to Brazil and basically the German government gave the manufacturer a guarantee, that if the Brazilians can not pay, the German government would cover it. This is an indirect subsidy for fossil fuels, which should not happen.

Electricity production is only a part of the total energy consumption. Gas heating or combustion engine cars do not use electricity for example, but are clearly energy consumption. Hence both numbers can be true at the same time, since electricity in Germany is much cleaner then other forms of energy.

Because the BND has been wrong a lot on the big stuff recently. Like they failed to predict the Russian invasion of Ukraine and also that the Taliban would take over Afghanistan quickly. In the former case, there were clear warnings from other secret services and in the later the German foreign ministry managed to be more accurate then the secret service.

Man könnte ja über kleine Speicheranlagen für einzelne Gemeinden und Städte nachdenken, falls wir dann wirklich mal so einen Überschuss haben,

Die könnte man dann E-Autos nennen…

The Netherlands, Ukraine and Germany complete the top five, while Slovakia’s service was rated the worst.

I did not expect Germany in that list at all.

Damit besitzt Axel Springer keine Anteile bei Qwant.