The expensive energy revolution in Germany. The implementation of the Energiewende is behind schedule. OSW Commentary No. 77, 2012-05-10

One year after the events of Fukushima the implementation of the new German energy strategy adopted in the summer of 2011 is being verified. Business circles, experts and publicists are sounding the alarm. The tempo at which the German economy is being rearranged in order that it uses renewable energy sources is so that it has turned out to be an extremely difficult and expensive task. The implementation of the key guidelines of the new strategy, such as the development of the transmission networks and the construction of new conventional power plants, is meeting increasing resistance in the form of economic and legal difficulties. The development of the green technologies sector is also posing problems. The solar energy industry, for example, is excessively subsidised, whereas the subsidies for the construction of maritime wind farms are too low. At present, only those guidelines of the strategy which are evaluated as economically feasible by investors or which receive adequate financial support from the state have a chance of being carried through. The strategy may also turn out to be unsuccessful due to the lack of a comprehensive coordination of its implementation and the financial burden its introduction entails for both the public and the economy. In the immediate future, the German government will make efforts not only to revise its internal regulations in order to enable the realisation of the energy transformation; it is also likely to undertake a number of measures at the EU forum which will facilitate this realisation. One should expect that the German government will actively support the financing of both the development of the energy networks in EU member states and the development of renewable energy sources in the energy sector.

The devil is in the details. Information warfare in the light of Russia's military doctrine. OSW Point of View 50, May 2015

By highlighting informational threats and giving them a military dimension, the authors of the Russian Federation's military doctrine have outlined the concept of information warfare. It is a kind of combat conducted by both conventional and indirect methods, open and concealed, using military and civilian structures. It has two dimensions: broader ("non-nuclear containment", i.e. combat waged on various levels - political, economic, diplomatic, humanitarian, military) and narrower (as an element supporting of action). An analysis of these issues enables us to identify several rising trends over the period 2000-2014 in Russian security policy. These boil down to a blurring of the boundaries between internal and external threats, introducing non-military methods and organisational structures to armed combat, and conferring an ideological character on this combat. This leads to a blurring of the contours of inter-state conflicts, which allows Russia to take part in armed conflicts in which it is not officially a party.

The Product is progress : Rural Electrification in Costa Rica /

"October 1981."

Energy-efficient commercial buildings : the range of possible solutions and their conceptual differences /

"Work Performed Under Contract No. EG-77-C-01-4042."

Religious persecution of the Baha'is in Iran, 1988 [microform] : hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, June 29, 1988.

CIS Microfiche Accession Numbers: CIS 89 H381-15

An analysis of Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England : in a series of questions, to which the student is to frame his own answers, by reading that work /

Mode of access: Internet.

Watch where the wolf is going : stories /

"The stories in the present collection were first published in Spanish in various collections, including Desnudo en el tejado ( ... 1969), Tiro libre (1973), Novios y solitarios, El entusiasmo, No pasó nada y otros relatos and El ciclista del San Cristóbal" -- T.p. verso.

An English and Welsh pronouncing dictionary : in which the pronunciation is given in Welsh letters = Geiriadur Cynaniadol Saesneg a chymraeg, yn yr hwn y silliadir y geiriau saesneg a llythyrenau Cymraeg /

Includes list of English scripture proper names.

The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments : the text is carefully printed from the most correct copies of the present authorized translation, including the marginal readings and parallel texts /

Vols. [6-8], published in 1817, have title: The New Testament, of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and are numbered v. 1-3.

An historical account of the several plagues that have appeared in the world since the year 1346 : with an enquiry into the present prevailing opinion, that the plague is a contagious distemper ..., also observations on Dr. Mackenzie's letters ..., and an abstract of Capt. Isaac Clemens's Voyage in the sloop Fawey ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

An essay on the bite a mad dog : : in which the claim to infallibility of the principal preservative remedies against the hydrophobia is examined /

Mode of access: Internet.