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Falcon in the Storm #05: The lost promise of Stalin City

There are two towns in Hungary that were entirely built by the dream of socialist industry, from scratch, with no historical background, unlike any other city in the country. One of them was called Lenin City, created for workers of the nearby mines and newly built factories of assorted technologies,

Falcon in the storm #3: The Fission Process

What do you think about the necessity of a new nuclear power plant in Hungary? The government based Paks II on assumptions about our reality that are simply not valid anymore. The first assumption is that economic growth requires a higher net energy consumption. A yearly energy demand growth of

Falcon in the Storm #2: The Creep of Solar

In our second guest post from Gergő Benedek, he explores a city community trying to invest in renewables. Wekerle is a unique neighbourhood, situated where the outskirts meet the edge of the Budapest , Hungary. The square-shaped residential area is a protected heritage site, an unlikely ‘garden city’ experiment, built

Falcon in the Storm

The nation of Hungary, throughout its 1000 year history, has always been at a crossroad. Due to its location, it is one of the places where Western and Eastern Europe meet- sometimes in the shape of cultural exchange, trade, or, more often than not, in war. Wedged between Russia, Germany