Harald Geyer

@haraldgeyer
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406 Posts
Selbstständiger Physiker, Schwerpunkte: Energietechnik, erneuerbare Energie, Energieeffizienz und Energiewirtschaft
OrtWien
Webhttps://haraldgeyer.at/
Harald GeyerDec 28
Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)Dec 18

VW will Kleinwagen künftig nur noch als E-Auto produzieren

https://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/VW-will-Kleinwagen-kuenftig-nur-noch-als-E-Auto-produzieren-id30158975.html

> Neue Kleinwagen-Modelle wie den Polo wird es von Volkswagen künftig nicht mehr als Verbrenner geben. Diese seien aufgrund der schärferen EU-Abgasregulierung nicht mehr wirtschaftlich genug. Die Debatte um Wasserstofftechnik ist aus Sicht von Europas größtem Autobauer eine "Scheindiskussion".

#Mobilitätswende #eupol #vw

Verbrenner "nicht mehr rentabel": VW will Kleinwagen künftig nur noch als E-Auto produzieren

Neue Kleinwagen-Modelle wie den Polo wird es von Volkswagen künftig nicht mehr als Verbrenner geben. Diese seien aufgrund der schärferen EU-Abgasregulierung nicht mehr wirtschaftlich genug. Die Debatte um Wasserstofftechnik ist aus Sicht von Europas größtem Autobauer eine "Scheindiskussion".

ntv NACHRICHTEN
Harald GeyerDec 25
Thomas Matern 🇪🇺Dec 24

Wir haben die Mittel, um EU-Bürger vor ausländischen Sanktionen zu schützen - es benötigt nur den politischen Willen.

„Verordnung (EG) Nr. 2271/96 des Rates vom 22. November 1996 zum Schutz vor den Auswirkungen der extraterritorialen Anwendung von einem Drittland erlassener Rechtsakte sowie von darauf beruhenden oder sich daraus ergebenden Maßnahmen“

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/1996/2271/oj

#HateAid #ThierryBreton #IStGH #NicolasGuillou

Verordnung - 2271/96 - EN - EUR-Lex

Harald GeyerDec 25
Fabio ManganielloDec 24

Lately I have noticed that when you purchase a ticket you don’t get a static PDF/PNG anymore.

Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party wallet app).

Since I don’t like to share information about the events I attend with strangers on the Internet, I have decided to take a closer look at these .pkpass files.

They are just zip files that contain a background image, an icon and a pass.json with the actual information about the ticket. Nothing that can’t be handled by a script rather than a 3rd-party 100 MB mobile app.

I have thus put together a simple #shell script that does exactly that.

Dependencies:

  • jq
  • zint
  • magick
  • unzip
  • curl or wget

https://gist.manganiello.tech/fabio/pkpass2png

Usage:

pkpass2png https://domain.tld/myticket.pkpass ticket.png
pkpass2png - Opengist

Harald GeyerDec 17
Gordon J HoltslanderDec 17

"Vienna did three things that Vancouver refuses to do:

They took land speculation off the table. Between 1919 and 1934 the city taxed the daylights out of large landowners, bought huge tracts at pre-boom prices, and has never sold them back. Today, the City of Vienna owns enough land to house another 400,000 people without touching a single private parcel.

They invented the limited-profit housing association (Gemeinnützige Bauvereinigungen). These entities can borrow at municipal bond rates, pay no dividend above a capped 3–4 %, and are required to recycle every euro of profit into new units. Most developers build non market housing, not market housing.

They kept the heights humane.

we could have built thousands of non-market homes by now without a single 20-storey tower."

Canadian conservatives shouting about housing and cost of living dismiss Vienna's 100 years of success as bureaucracy planning and regulation.<- its speculation, weath ..

#cdnpoli #housing #HousingCrisis
https://in-sights.ca/2025/12/16/lessons-from-vienna-rethinking-vancouvers-housing-affordability/

Lessons from Vienna: Rethinking Vancouver’s Housing Affordability

Professor Patrick Condon compares Vancouver’s adverse housing policies to the highly successful public housing projects in Vienna.

Harald GeyerNov 30
Mike ShewardNov 26

The future we were promised: “Honey, pack your bags, I booked us a weekend getaway to the moon resort, our ship leaves the spaceport in 3 hours.”

The future we got: “my fridge has an updated privacy policy”

Harald GeyerNov 24
Agora IndustrieNov 24
From January 2026, the EU’s 🇪🇺 Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism ( #CBAM) will start placing a fee on carbon-intensive imports, while free allowances under the EU carbon market (ETS) are reduced. But as it only tackles carbon leakage on imports, an important question remains: how can Europe protect exporters while staying on track for #climateneutrality? 🌍1/x
Harald GeyerNov 24
Daniel HuppmannNov 22
"Das CO2-Budget ist quasi aufgebraucht, wir werden die 1,5 Grad erreichen", sagen Reinhard Mechler & Keywan Riahi vom #IIASAVienna in einem Hintergrundgespräch zur #COP30. Um die Klimaveränderung zu stoppen, braucht es Erneuerbaren-Ausbau und Ausstieg aus Öl, Gas und Kohle.
#WissenSchafftKlimaschutz
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000297403/klimaforscher-zu-cop30-wir-duerfen-das-15-grad-ziel-nicht-aufgeben
Klimaforscher zu COP30: "Wir dürfen das 1,5-Grad-Ziel nicht aufgeben"

Wissenschafter analysieren die Fallstricke, die einer Abschlusserklärung bei der Weltklimakonferenz im Wege stehen könnten – und wo es überraschende Einigkeit gibt

DER STANDARD
Harald GeyerNov 19
The ContinentNov 19
Delegates from 190 countries are meeting in Belém, Brazil, for the 30th climate negotiations, or COP. A decade ago, in Paris, they agreed to take global heating seriously. But the world in which they are gathering today looks nothing like the one envisioned back then. https://continent.substack.com/p/the-five-stages-of-climate-grief
The five stages of climate grief

With the pollution coming from elsewhere, Africa is left somewhere between bargaining and acceptance.

The Continent
Harald GeyerNov 14
XKCD botNov 12
#xkcd No. 3167
Date: 2025-11-12
Title: Car Size
Alt text: 'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.'
https://xkcd.com/3167/
Harald GeyerNov 11
KarisNov 8

this isn't an exaggeration of what is happening in Tanzania..

i don't think the scale at which people have been abducted, disappeared and killed by the Tanzanian government, in less than a week, has hit home for many..

and all at the orders of the Tanzanian president, Samia Suluhu Hassan..

image from @thecontinent
https://mas.to/@thecontinent/115509942010080370

#Tanzania #Elections #StateViolence #Oppression #Africa