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"Germany breaks heat record again"
#Germany #Climate #ClimateChange

Another heat record broken in Germany
The heatwave weekend in Germany has produced yet another temperature record, the highest since measurements began in the 19th century, registered in Brandenburg.

"EU powerhouses like Germany ‘on track’ to miss 2030 emissions goal while Spain may smash its target"
#EU #Germany #Spain #Emissions

ahh a fresh breeze of air while it is raining. room temp went down from 31 degree to 26. but as soon as i am closing the windows it will raise again :( #heat #germany

"Germany off track to deliver 2045 climate goal"
#Germany #Climate #ClimateChange

Germany off track to deliver 2045 climate goal
Germany looks set to overshoot its legally mandated climate targets for 2040 and beyond, with land use plans to create carbon sinks still expected to act as a source of emissions through to 2050.

RE: #germany

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"Germany adds record 1 GWh of battery storage in March"
#Germany #Batteries #Energy

Germany adds record 1 GWh of battery storage in March
Germany could break the gigawatt-hour mark for the first time on a monthly basis. Around 45,000 new residential photovoltaic storage systems have been registered in the market master data register so far in March.

"Germany’s coal mines are now Europe’s largest lake district"
#Germany #Environment
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Germany’s coal mines are now Europe’s largest lake district | The Optimist Daily
Eastern Germany’s Lusatia region spent a century digging coal. Now it’s nearly finished building Europe’s largest artificial lake district.

RE: https://systemli.social/@matthimon/116603616065210459
There are some things in life that just go well together: peanut butter and jam, macaroni and cheese, Germany and genocide…

I've finished reading Simon Winder's "#Germania" a while ago, but I've been slacking with the review. This is a book about the history of #Germany, in the wide meaning of word. However, it's not your boring detailed history book. The author takes us on a deeply personal journey across German landscape, across tiny towns and great forests, Schlosses, churches and monuments, and uses that as a context to bring the country's surprisingly interesting history to light. And honestly, it works — it is deeply enjoyable, to the point of making me wonder if one day I should actually move to Germany, get a Bahncard 100 and start exploring myself.
I didn't quote the book here, but if I were to choose one quote that really resonated with me, it would be:
"""
Solitary tourism is something that everybody should indulge in. Of course it is a fraudulent solitude because its enjoyment comes from its limited duration and having a cheerful, only very temporarily abandoned main base area. […] And then, suddenly, I am in Vienna, standing in the shadow of a monstrous, derelict flak tower, and completely alone. The virtue of solitary tourism is its infinite ability to absorb boredom. I often find myself almost crippled with anxiety that the companion or companions on a journey might be finding everything wholly without interest, would rather be eating somewhere else, are secretly angry that we have wound up walking down this street rather than that, are contemptuous of my own interests. Solitary tourism cauterizes all this: if a museum is boring beyond all measure there is no pressure to feign interest, you just leave. I am perfectly happy, in a zoned-out way, to crisscross a town, walking for hours, just for the off-chance something curious might be round the next corner – indeed in the confidence that there will always be something curious (there always is). But for each street, each bar, each folklore museum to be converted into an inter-human negotiation creates an entirely different dynamic.
[…]
Quite possibly the pleasure of this way of life would be much reduced in some other countries, particularly more insistently gregarious places such as Italy. German culture puts a high value on temporary solitude of a stagey kind. Perhaps this is its great gift. In some moods I think there is no need to do anything other than read German writers from the first half of the nineteenth century – a sort of inexhaustible storehouse of attitudes flattering to those who just like sometimes to be left alone. Everyone must have at least a part of them that wants to live in a stairless, doorless tower as a sort of intellectual Rapunzel, setting aside, at least in part, the complicated sexual frisson laid out by such an idea. Germany really is thick with ivy-covered turrets and the promise of solitude (Kepler staring at the planets above Prague, Faust conjuring demons) – the great majority presumably built in the nineteenth century in response to the whole literature devoted to the subject. There is one turret in Lübeck, built onto a city guard tower of just outrageous fakeness, which would do me for life.
"""
(Simon Winder, Germania)
And if you follow me, you have evidence that the part about crisscrossing towns is so true: the best things I've posted here I found by complete accident, especially the murals.
#books #bookstodon

Hat der #Nagelsmann sich eigentlich mit Charlie Sheen getroffen?
Ihr seht es doch auch oder?
#germany #gercuw

Hvert 100. år planlægger #Germany at skabe den stærkeste hær i Europe… Varje 100:e år planerar Germany att skapa den starkaste armén i Europe… Hvert 100. år planlegger Germany å skape den sterkeste hæren i
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RE: #Germany have abandoned their official…

"Giant wind turbine rises in Germany amid far-right headwinds"
#Germany #WindTurbines #Energy #Renewables

Giant wind turbine rises in Germany amid far-right headwinds
A wind turbine billed as the world's tallest is rising in eastern Germany, winning praise as a beacon for a clean, green energy future and headwinds from the far-right AfD party.

Finally reduced my endless backlog by uploading a bunch of photos to #WikimediaCommons. These are photos I took in #Heidelberg and #Wilhelmsfeld,

Wow, such democracy. Much freedom of movement.
#germany #eu

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#vanlife #camping #europe #germany

Doh. This is the end of Germany. 🍩
(package seen today at a German supermarket)
#food #donuts #Simpsons #health #Germany

"The German town that prints its own money to cut emissions"
#Germany #Money #Emissions

German town prints its own cash to cut CO2 emissions
It started as a school project to promote local businesses in a remote Bavarian region. Now, the "Chiemgauer" currency helps to cut emissions.

"Germany’s heat pump public discourse is positive but volatile"
#Germany #HeatPumps #Energy

Germany’s heat pump public discourse is positive but volatile
Research from Germany analyzed sentiment in online news coverage to explore how heat pumps are portrayed in German public discourse. It found that while public perception is generally positive, it is neither uniform nor stable, and dipped significantly during debates around Germany’s heating law in 2023.

I hope they're doing the plate justice. One way or another. 😉
#car #licensePlate #travel #pun #Germany #Deutschland

"German mayors call for night-time ban on robot lawnmowers to protect hedgehogs"
#Germany #Hedgehogs #Animals

Made in Udupi. Served in Bavaria. 🤤 🇮🇳 🇩🇪
(see alt text)
#food #sweets #India #Germany

And, if you can't beat them, join them. 🍩
(also seen today at a German supermarket)
#food #donuts #Milka #health #Germany

"France, Germany, Portugal, Spain set daily solar records"
#France #Germany #Portugal #Spain

France, Germany, Portugal, Spain set daily solar records - pv magazine Global
Latest analysis from AleaSoft Energy Forecasting finds the weekly average electricity price increased in France, Portugal and Spain last week despite new daily solar records as wind energy production fell and demand increased.

German bakeries do know how to make and present bread. 🥖
(shot today)
#photography #amateur #food #bread #bakery #Germany #Deutschland

Fruits on flowers. 🍒💐
(this morning on the kitchen table)
#photography #amateur #fruits #cherries #stillLife #Germany

Thrift shops are treasures of art. You just have to look carefully.
#photography #amateur #storage #thriftShop #art #Germany

The nicest looking artichokes.
#Bavaria #Germany #veggies #stillLife #photography #amateur

So much opulence they sell gold coins by the bags. In supermarkets. 😲
Like how historians say the markets of Hampi did at the peak of the Vijayanagara empire. 🪙
#trinkets #cheap #coins #humor #Germany #India #photography #amateur

Sunday at "Trachtenfest" (celebration of traditional attire). 🇩🇪
#photography #amateur #Bavaria #Germany #clothing #parade #tradition

I wonder if drogerie markt ever used something like "slide into your/our dm" in #marketing before that phrase/act became creepy and unwelcome. 🤔
*a #pharmacy chain in #Germany and elsewhere
#socialmedia

Achtung! Amazon Kids running about.
(that arrow lip)
#Germany #Austria #alerts #kids #Amazon #arrow

The moon right now. Almost half way through the waxing phase. 🌓
#photography #amateur #moon #night #Germany

Wheat ears hung upside down at the local bakery. The second picture is looking at the installation from under it. Looks to me like a large scrub one might use on a rough floor, but with lights. 🌾 🥖
May 21, 2026 #Bavaria #Germany
#photography #amateur #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #wheat #bakery #decor