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Eipzig. (Ceto) renewable are on everyone’s lips, especially the biomass, which is disputed by the king with more than 70 percent share of renewable energies in Germany. Biomass is also fermented into biogas into biome thane. Especially in the east the vast, mostly spherical vats shooting from the floor. No wonder, here is expected due to low population density but with little resistance. Moreover, the large-scale agriculture – a prerequisite for a commercially reasonably tolerable biomass production – significantly more pronounced than in the western part of the country.

Not only food competitor
But as with wind power (“blot on the country”) as well as photovoltaic (“too much support in Germany is not enough seems Sun”), stirring now and in the biomass re-state that is not in the well-known competition for food and related hunger Third world is running out, but in this country from very tangible reasons.

This is how Dietmar Oeliger by NABU and dangers of a lack of arable land. “If previously unused land, such as meadows, arable made and corn is grown escapes by breaking up the soil so much CO2 that it can be bound only in the course of ten years back,” said the Head of Transport Policy of Germany’s oldest environmental organization (see FUEL MIRROR 7/2011, pages 13 and 27).

Without subsidy hardly economically
Purely economic biome thane is not much better positioned than other renewable. The Agency stated “disproportionately high costs for biogas” exception.. Provider, the biogas directly into electricity Matthias Kurth, head of the agency, speaks of a “significant discrepancy between the cost of production of biogas and the market prices for fossil natural gas.” 2010 was the cost of producing biogas with an average of 6 cents per kilowatt hour. Biogas is thus about three times as expensive as natural gas. Its costs were on average at 2.07 cents per kilowatt hour. When consumers bear this in addition to procurement costs, contribute to rising gas prices. (See here).

Government will miss its target fed
These costs are also responsible for ensuring that the ambitious goals of the federal government to supply biogas are hard to satisfy. According to a study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology 2020, about four billion cubic meters to be fed. This is considerably less than the stated goal of six billion cubic meters. The complete article can be read here.

While a positive environment for the ecological balance of green real estate is uncontested, the purely economic benefits has been extensively studied: Can demonstrate the sustainable benefits of green buildings in the economic sense?

In order to quantify the economic sustainability of real estate, the Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CCRS), the University of Zurichcreated the ESI ® indicator. He recorded, in contrast to currently prevailing models and long-term values and trends. In this social mega trends in the foreground.

Based on the new calculation method results – in comparison with conventional methods of measurement changes – from -14.9 to 6.6 percent. The indicator has quantified the individual features: First is the use and user flexibility (42.6percent), followed by health and comfort (24.6 percent) and the energy and water consumption (16.7 percent). The CCRS scientists note that “increasing property-related health and comfort aspects of meaning – a sustainable property is characterized by a high indoor air quality.”

The innovative, Bavarian wooden house, with its corporate Bau fritz full-value houses a particularly sophisticated and holistic health concept! There are onlytested for harmful materials are used. Also, allergies can live and breathe free of symptoms. There is also the primary energy requirement of the design of wood buildings up to 50 percent below the legally required levels. An ideal combination for those who “act green” as well as both want to “sustainably profitable “investment. In the future, in particular, sustainable and “green” construction of buildings to achieve an increase in value compared to conventional buildings.

The speed camera madness robs motorists in Germany last nerve. Mainly because it controls the radar at this almost never about safety, but mostly just a matter of cash to pour into cities and states. goes. That at least 92.4% of respondents are the major transport survey 2011 from mobile convinced in Germany, 2238 people participated. While 71% of respondents approve of speed cameras, for safety purposes, while 85% of respondents claim that they control radar, which only serve the rehabilitation of homes, would finally stop. This is a clear message and challenge to the policy that excels with more demands for more controls, rather than to differentiate the existing and to re-sort.

One who fights vigorously against the speed camera madness in Germany, is the mobile lawyer in Germany Volker Pampuch. ”Velocity measurements by regulatory agencies, for economic reasons, are inadmissible, because there is no legal basis. There is no law – neither the police nor by regulatory authorities or from road traffic, not even the federal government, state or local authorities, covering a traffic monitoring fiscal point, “And what does the Federal Constitutional Court to that?” It has to date. no position taken. It simply states that permissible velocity measurements (final governed by law for safety and ease of traffic and security) are protected by law. All other measurements are inconsistent with the application are prohibited and misuse of powers. “ In addition: “In court summary proceedings, it is impossible to answer the question of what made wallpaper images for prosecution of traffic offenses have been, if it comes to the safety and efficiency of navigation, a security or fiscal interests.”

Therefore eV Volker Pampuch calls with Mobile in Germany: “The citizen has the right to transparent verification of the use of discretionary authority. This includes the obligation of the authorities, reasonable grounds for the orders of the radar measurements indicate. ”

Fact: The creams from local strong. And using ever more complete and less obtrusive traffic control methods. One example are radar pillars that look like light poles, infrared cameras, so-called ghost Blitzer, the flash disappears and the person concerned does not remember, or Police scan speed, a digital time measurement, by scanning laser, the velocities and positions of all vehicles in the measuring field determined. All these modern, technical equipment make it possible to silently more and more drivers fall into the trap, and every year hundreds of millions of euros in addition to flow into the public coffers. This is nothing more than a disguised illegal “tax” Mobile in Germany demands. End to the “Blitzer country” Germany. Our roads need more security but less rip-off

Various materials behave differently under extreme stress. Companies and consumer advocates to put right on the test material. Materials can visually convincing, but what exactly is in the material cannot be seen or detected by the naked eye. A tension wire, for example, must withstand a certain amount of tension to which one can rely on. Tears such a cable may be too early can cause the bad injury.

Many factories take it to the test material very carefully. There are various test methods used to determine the behavior of the material samples or finished components. It does not matter whether mechanically, thermally or chemically tested will, the material must be of suitable material to withstand examination, otherwise the material is not usable. A material is tested for purity, accuracy or durability. The standard test methods are divided into two main areas in the non-destructive testing and destructive testing. Estimates of the life of various products and materials are backed with the test material or shot down. Non-destructive testing of materials, the material is tested for quality without damaging the material itself.  Leaving damp spots without finding an impression, scratches or punctures, the strength of success thing. When the destructive testing of materials, materials on specific chemical and physical properties tested and destroyed or altered, only the surface.

Quality criteria depend more on the test product and the emphasis is always different. With multiple instruments from the laboratory technique, some experiments with materials are possible.

“Metrics” for employee sounds horrible– its function to measure data about a company, employee or organization. With the vast growing of technology– nowadays, software programs are used by employer to ease gathering, analyzing, interpreting data– and looking at it from all possible angles. Criteria for employee performance metrics encompass sales records, production, or attendance which will be evaluated by manager. However, there are still standard criteria used to measure employee performance like;
1. Productivity –it covers how much work an employee does in a specific timeframe. The way to evaluate will vary depends on what the company or the department does. For example like; sales departments may measure their employees’ productivity from the number of sales completed, the overall revenue generated by salesperson. Then, the manufacturing companies may measure according to the number of units produced, packaged or shipped by each employee. Then we go to a research and development company that may evaluate the employee performance from fiscal impact of an employee’s research projects–the number of patents produced–the number of projects which have been successfully converted into products.
2. Skills and competencies are also factors to consider of measurement and evaluate employee performance. The two factors may refer to technical skills, customer service abilities, communication skills, leadership, sales aptitude, and be able to work as team. The measurement could be designed such as written test, online questionnaire, or maybe other metrics that possibly can make it objective and quantifiable.
3. Another factor is “trends” where its function to evaluate how an employee performs over time. The starting points for managers to evaluate are taken from consideration a few factors like whether the sales increased–whether the customer satisfied–whether the amount of positive feedback from other employees increased.
4. The last employee performance metric is training. In training metrics involves test which is done before, during or after training sessions to measure the effectiveness of training program. By looking at the employees’ development in knowledge, skills and attitude –managers can evaluate the effectiveness of training programs–and of course make some important changes for future programs.
You can find many metrics out there, but they definitely have the same function that is, to measure the effectiveness of your employee.