Ispectrum Magazine Ispectrum Magazine #05 | Page 33

M.K. : Here in Germany the prices for energy are already rising. But I heard the amount of energy being wasted – even CO2-Emission – is not going down. So a kind of opposite development is recognizable. Prof. Dr. von Weizsäcker The increase of energy prices is very good for Germany. Nevertheless, as you said before, the emissions are rising. This has a totally different background: In the USA, a new method of raw material production has been 32 discovered and is used for a short amount of time now: it is called FRACKING and is a method of extracting