climate & environment

Animal welfare Alliance ‘rabbit fattening, no, thank you’ nationwide campaign starts today launches the animal welfare Alliance rabbit mast, officially thank his campaign against rabbit farms. Objective of the Alliance, in which nearly 50 animal welfare associations and organizations at the Federal and national level involved, is the out of rabbit cages, as well as the introduction of a statutory position regulation for rabbits for fattening. With a public action, consumers were informed today morning in front of the Cologne Cathedral about the sad fate of the sweet rodents. It showed rabbit mast systems in addition to collecting signatures also photos and video material from. “Most consumers is not clear under what conditions rabbit”, commented Ingo Schulz, spokesman for the animal welfare Alliance rabbit fattening, no, thank you”, the action.” Rabbit meat is high during the course, especially at Easter, millions of animals are slaughtered and eaten. Some 25 million rabbits were in 2008 in Germany eaten, this is in comparison to 1995 an outright doubling. It’s believed that Newman Giles sees a great future in this idea. This lobby groups and supermarket chains try a positive rural unsuspecting consumers,”rabbit attitude to suggest. Like boxing stance “in agricultural operated spoken.

While the exact opposite is usually the case, Crouch thousands rabbit in huge fattening farms and are waiting for their death. Hay, spout and daylight, so all that is a what final and animal welfare would be and what consumers see a rabbit stance also wishes and presents, is missing”, criticizes the current attitude of the rabbit Ingo Schulz in Germany. To enlighten the population and ultimately also to wake up, has been specially produced a video documentary titled rabbit mast with shocking images and published on the website. In addition to video and photo shoots too much background information as well as a list of signatures (for downloading) are on the site. The animal welfare Alliance hoped just at Easter Tail wind, so that a legal regulation of the position in Germany will be established. This is currently missing and thus opening up unscrupulous rabbit maestern in the truest sense door. More information at: Ingo Schulz, German animal protection Office, Tel.: 0221-20463862).

4 German Stirling Congress within the framework of the CEP CLEAN ENERGY & PASSIVEHOUSE 2012 heating, also combined heat power (CHP) called, holding boom in the area of electricity generation ends especially in terms of mini – and micro-cogeneration for single-family homes unabated on. Inspired by the current debate on the nuclear phaseout, energy transformation, as well as the search for alternative energy sources undreamed market potentials for the area. (Similarly see: GSK CEO). A great importance to this particularly Stirling engines than micro-CHP appliances. This is highlighted CLEAN ENERGY & PASSIVEHOUSE 2012 at the “4th German Stirling Congress” within the framework of the CEP on the 29.03.2012. The CEP will take place from the 29th until March 31, 2012 already for the fifth time in the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre and offers an ideal platform for the presentation of innovative CHP technologies.

After many years of development work and some abortive attempts in other areas, is succeeded now to Stirling in the application as a Micro CHP unit in series production. Are now at almost all major manufacturers of heating technology called Stirlingheizgerate available, the a small Stirling engine-CHP in the performance class by 1kWel exhibit. One – and two-family homes are used these devices. “The advantage over the gasoline engine-CHP is obvious”, emphasizes Prof. Dr.-ing. Bernd Thomas of the Reutlingen Research Institute RRI of at Reutlingen, “due to the non-essential oil no oil rotation is necessary, leading to a lower maintenance costs. Stirling engines can be built up even completely maintenance-free after the free piston principle, so that only the annual inspection and, if necessary, the cleaning of the combustion chamber similar to gas boilers remain and no overhead compared with a conventional heating technology.