France moves to block fraudulent German car sales. German Offshore Wind Offensive Plagued by Problems. In his 1957 work "Book of Imaginary Beings," Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges describes Zaratan, an ocean turtle that was so large that she served as an artificial island.
Forests grew on her shell. The managers of the British offshore firm Seajacks have developed such an affinity for the monster that they named their latest creation after the mythical being. Their Zaratan looks like a giant barge. It has a huge crane and four hydraulic legs, each of them 85 meters (280 feet) long. The legs allow it to lift itself out of the water like an insect. The vehicle is an "installation vessel," a tool of the offshore wind-power industry that does only one thing: It installs offshore wind turbines that that are sometimes taller than 150 meters.
On a recent Saturday, the ship was waiting at the wharf in the northern German port town of Cuxhaven to take four "monopiles," each weighing 750 metric tons (1.64 million pounds), on board.
German army. German society. Q+A - Germany's messy master plan for energy. Viewpoints: German nuclear shutdown. 30 May 2011Last updated at 17:57 Germany's decision to close all its nuclear power plants by 2022 may affect the industry across Europe.
Switzerland is also phasing out nuclear energy but the UK has proposed new nuclear power stations, entirely funded by the private sector. Will Germany's decision lead to an international debate for more renewable sources of energy, or is this an internal German development, unlikely to have an impact elsewhere? Here, speaking to the BBC World Service, British nuclear power advocate Malcolm Grimston argues about the impact with green energy campaigner Jeremy Leggett. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote To be closing down nuclear plants rather than coal plants is, I think, just environmental vandalism” End Quote This is not necessarily damaging for the nuclear industry.
I think the real concern is that last year we had more carbon dioxide emissions than ever before. Allemagne : Siemens instaure l'emploi «à vie » Columnists / Martin Wolf - Excessive virtue can be a vice for th. SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten. Le président allemand Horst Köehler démissionne. (Photo d'archives) BERLIN, 31 mai (Xinhua) -- Le président allemand Horst Köehler a annoncé lundi sa démission avec effet immédiat pour les critiques sur ses propos controversés sur l'engagement militaire de son pays en Afghanistan.
"J'annonce ma démission de mes fonctions de président avec effet immédiat", a déclaré à Berlin M. Köhler. Il a dit avoir informé Jens Boehrnsen, président de la chambre haute du Parlement de sa démission. Selon la constitution allemande, Boehrnsen doit assumer les fonctions de président par intérim. Köehler a déclenché un tollé après avoir affirmé que l'engagement militaire allemand à l'étrange peut servir également les intérêts économiques du pays. Il a dit plus tard avoir été mal compris et que ses propos ne faisant pas référence à l'engagement militaire en Afghanistan, mais plutôt à l'opération contre la piraterie.