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With the Pacific Ocean to the east and the East China Sea to the west, Ishigaki Island, with an area of 222.6 square kilometers, is the third largest island in Okinawa prefecture after Okinawa and Nishimiao. Tetsuhiro Kaneshiro, a local resident who has been planting mango trees on the island for decades, began to worry about whether he could continue to live safely when the workers and machines to build the missile base arrived. In fact, Japan has long been planning to deploy a missile base on Ishigaki Island, but the plan was officially announced in August 2021. The new unit includes an applied unit equipped with surface-to-ship and surface-to-air missiles, as well as a guard unit that can respond quickly to armed attacks and large-scale natural disasters, Japan's Yomiuri Newspaper reported at the time. Later, The Japanese mainstream media did not focus too much on this, only with "is advancing" and other words vague. By the end of October 2021, a Japanese journalist visiting the site described what he saw as "staggering." |
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#accelerate#announce#Russia On Monday evening, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the United States was coordinating with Allies and expected to announce new sanctions on Russia on Tuesday, Thomson Reuters reported. She said Russia is clearly violating international law and Ukraine's sovereignty, and the United States and our Allies are united in calling on Russia to withdraw its troops and return to the diplomatic table.White House officials revealed in late January that possible U.S. export controls would reduce Russia's ability to industrialize in several key industries, including aviation, shipping, robotics, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and defense.Downing Street announced That Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hold an emergency cabinet meeting at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday to discuss significant sanctions against Russia over President Vladimir Putin's deployment of so-called 'peacekeepers' into eastern Ukraine, the Mirror reported. Johnson told the BBC on Sunday that Britain and the United States would impose unprecedented sanctions on Russia if it invaded Ukraine, including banning Russian companies from trading in pounds and dollars.European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on February 19 that Brussels had already dispersed supplies of liquefied natural gas from around the world and could survive the winter even if Russia cut supplies altogether, POLITICO Europe reported.Ms. Von der Leyen stressed that Europe should speed up the transition to sustainable energy because it was also a way of getting rid of Russian gas. Europe must diversify its suppliers and sources of energy, she said, and is stepping up investment in renewable energy that will boost its strategic energy independence.Von der Leyen said February 19 that the European Union, home to many of the world's leading high-tech products, would impose export bans if Russia attacked its neighbors, the Associated Press reported. |
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#accelerate#estimates#agricultura Germany is launching an initiative to support solar projects on agricultural land, which the economy ministry estimates could lead to 200GW of additional photovoltaic development capacity. The package announced jointly by the ministers of agriculture, Climate and environment will enable agricultural PHOTOVOLTAIC plants to be supported and promoted under the German Renewable Energy Law (EEG), enabling land to be used for both electricity generation and farming. Agricultural wastelands could be used to install solar projects under EEG, as long as the land can be restored, and agricultural photovoltaic projects are also likely to receive funding from the EU common Agricultural Policy. Cem Ozdemir, Germany's agriculture minister, said the proposals represented "a win-win situation for climate, nature and agriculture, as the three ministries have set out to ensure the best possible communication between agricultural needs, energy production and nature conservation". Germany's new coalition government aims to generate 80% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030 The plans form part of an effort by Germany's new coalition government to generate more than 80 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources within nine years. In 2020, the figure is only 45%, and Germany is aiming for 200GW of pv capacity by 2030. The Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft, the German solar trade association, recently warned that obstacles needed to be "dismantled" in order to reach the 200GW target. The association welcomed the government's agricultural PV proposals, but said there was a need to expand the current "very strict" framework on where new solar power stations could be built. Carsten Kornig, CHIEF executive of BSW, said: "The proposals now submitted by the federal ministries are a step in the right direction, but they are not enough. Predictably, the lack of sites to build solar farms will be a barrier to investment." A recently unveiled agricultural photovoltaic research project in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate is being used to explore how solar systems can protect plants and fruits from extreme weather. BayWa R.E. and Fraunhofer Solar Systems Institute, renewable energy developers and partners in the project, are testing different photovoltaic module configurations to determine the impact on plant growth and crop yields. According to SolarPower Europe, a trade association, the commission's new rules will encourage bidding for some renewables, including agricultural photovoltaics. |
