It looked like a major case of fraud. Later, I learned that very similar things were happening in Norway. After trying to understand what was happening and finally confirming this, the stories I published had some fallout: The Association of Issuing Bodies temporarily banned exports of these GOs from Iceland. But that didn't last long. This story now appears to have come to an end, with AIB accepting the Icelandic practice and with no plans to even investigate Norway.
During a press trip to Iceland last year, I noticed something that looked very strange: Within the country, practically every large electricity consumer would claim that they use renewable energy. Of course: Iceland's grid is entirely powered by hydropower and geothermal energy. But at the same time, green electricity from Iceland is sold in EU countries through certificates called "Guarantees of Origin". It appeared that the same green electricity was sold twice. 🧵
Bei vielen E-Fuels-Projekten muss man nur mal 3 kritische Fragen stellen und plötzlich wirkt das alles sehr komisch, aber irgendwie macht das kaum jemand... Ich glaube ich könnte auch fulltime-efuels-debunker werden, aber ich seh mich da garnicht so sehr in der rolle und mach das eher weil macht ja sonst keiner...
Fragen die man zu konkreten E-Fuels-Projekten stellen sollte: 1. Sind es wirklich e-fuels oder vielleicht eher Biosprit? Oder was ganz anderes? 2. Wo kommt das CO2 her? 3. Wo kommt der Wasserstoff her? 4. Von welchen Mengen reden wir?
The German environmental agency publishes data on emissions of factories/power plants etc. in Germany. To better work with that data, I created a docker image that allows me accessing the data through MySQL/MariaDB (either directly or phpMyAdmin). https://github.com/hannob/thrusql
TIL: Müllmenge misst man in Megagramm, weil Tonnen könnte man ja mit Mülltonnen verwechseln. Das hat mich gerade echt verwirrt, ich dachte: "was ist denn Mg bitte für eine Einheit?"
Mt is a Megaton, mt a milliton, but TIL some people also use mt (or MT) as an abbreviation for metric ton (aka a ton). Unless you know that you'll be a million times off...
Infosec-Mastodon, I have a request: Can anyone share a sample of a mail from the Klez malware from around 2001? (I need the full email, not just the malware attachment) My mailserver may reject it, use either pgp or this form https://hboeck.de/en/contact.html