Regarding “Tölz was perpetrator country” from March 17th:
It's nice that your article also mentioned the short film from the P-Seminar German and History of the Tölzer Gabriel-von-Seidl-Gymnasium about the Nazi era in Tölz. Unfortunately, the article gives the impression that only the four students mentioned by name made this film. There are many more behind this project, more precisely all of the P-Seminar students, who are working on this project with a lot of passion and time, in front of and behind the camera, in designing and building the film set, in composing the film music, in the cinematic Post-production and many other activities related to filming.
It is clear that not everyone can be mentioned by name in such an article, but at least a general mention of the film team and the actors would have been desirable, as this part of the article unfortunately caused some disappointment among some of those involved in the project.
Thomas Riedl, Sachsenkam
CO₂ emissions not neutralized
Regarding “Groundbreaking in April” from February 22nd:
The statements made by the Roche plant management in Penzberg regarding the planned groundbreaking ceremony for a biomass cogeneration plant in April should not go unchallenged.
Proponents of forest management claim that moderate harvesting increases the storage capacity of the forest. The Rottenburg University of Forestry, on the other hand, has found that unused forests provide 2.5 times higher climate protection performance in the medium term than managed forests. Firewood sellers believe that burning wood is CO₂-neutral as long as residual wood and sawing by-products from local forests are used. In 2020, however, German forests removed 20 million tons less CO₂ from the air than was released into the air through the energetic use of wood. The CO₂ emissions were therefore not neutralized.
When pellets are burned, several hundred chemical compounds containing carcinogenic benzene are formed. The dust and carbon monoxide values of the wood stove type test are significantly exceeded in regular operation because the initial combustion phase, in which most pollutants are produced, is not taken into account in the type test (see emissions scandal in the automotive industry). When manufacturers of activated carbon filters advertise a particle reduction of 95 percent, the fine dust emissions from burning wood remain a hundred times higher than natural gas and three times higher than heating oil.
Dr. Volker Hoensch, Penzberg