Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz is a professor of German and European Law at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, blogging since 2003 at Lenz Blog. A free PDF file of his global warming science fiction novel "Great News" is available here.
September 17th, 2017 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Today I learned that the German Ruhr region needs to find a budget of around 220 million Euro a year to deal with the environmental consequences of 150 years of coal mining. Around two thirds of that sum is needed for pumping pit water.
September 16th, 2017 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Bitcoin mining is a nice fit for a desert solar project, since it needs no power line. The work comes to the site of electricity generation, not the other way round
July 7th, 2017 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
The problem with auctions is that contrary to what they are sold as (more market-based model) they are removing the decision on how much new solar is built from the market to the state. There is no way in an auction system to build even one MW more than is auctioned in the first place.
December 23rd, 2016 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Why are some people trying to deny basic facts of climate science? And why is that problem so much worse in the United States than everywhere else
December 23rd, 2016 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
SPIEGEL reports on plans for new executive legislation that would allow cities to declare gasoline car restricted zones.
June 25th, 2015 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on the Lenz Blog. David Roberts discusses the question if there are any economic limits for solar and [&hellip
June 5th, 2015 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on the Lenz Blog I recall that adviser of the Mongolian President Tsagaan called for Mongolia to become [&hellip
June 4th, 2015 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on the Lenz Blog An editorial at Mainichi Shinbun (in Japanese) published on Sunday discusses the plans of the [&hellip
May 4th, 2015 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published the Lenz Blog I think that the 2014 reform of the German renewable energy law was a large step [&hellip
November 10th, 2014 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on Lenz Blog. Craig Morris at Renewables International discusses some interesting numbers on the regional differences in the [&hellip
October 29th, 2014 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Lenz Blog. The decision to reduce CO2 emissions in the EU by 40% until 2030 comes with a nice qualification: The [&hellip
June 3rd, 2014 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on Lenz Blog. Energiewende Germany wrote this on Twitter: Renewables have grown more than nuclear been shut down. Coal? [&hellip
May 28th, 2014 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on Lenz Blog. The parties of the German government have introduced a proposal for surcharge industry rebates on May 20. [&hellip
May 25th, 2014 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on Lenz Blog. Here is yet another reason why the reductions German energy intensive industry gets when paying [&hellip
May 14th, 2014 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on Lenz Blog. CleanTechnica just published an interview with Sunpower CEO Tom Werner. He makes some points interesting when [&hellip
April 28th, 2014 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on Lenz Blog. GTM Research has released some figures for last years’ solar panel market. Thanks to this Tweet by Kees [&hellip
April 21st, 2014 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on Lenz Blog. Greenpeace has published a short report on recent trends in Chinese coal consumption, titled “The [&hellip
April 16th, 2014 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on Lenz Blog. I have written extensively about the fact that the market order for electricity in Germany [&hellip
April 16th, 2014 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on Lenz Blog. The recent news about reforming the Law on Priority for Renewable Energy in Germany is [&hellip
April 14th, 2014 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on Lenz Blog. The EU Commission has adopted a useless and harmful Communication titled “Guidelines on State aid [&hellip
March 30th, 2014 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on Lenz Blog. It is of course correct that eventually all energy will be renewable, and the only [&hellip
March 12th, 2014 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on the Lenz Blog. This excellent article at Zeit Online (in German) by Armin Steinbach gives another strong reason the [&hellip
March 5th, 2014 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on Lenz Blog. That’s what a new report by “experts” on innovation calls for, as Reuters just reported. I [&hellip
March 5th, 2014 | by Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Originally published on the Lenz Blog. The German government just announced that they have sued against the EU Commission decision to open [&hellip
