About heating degree days in Obergurgl and cooling degree days in ManilaManila has 5,300 cooling degree days. If a house in Vienna without thermal insulation and single-pane glass is an extreme waste of energy, this would be twice as extreme in Obergurgl.The provisional energy certificate for Unken shows 4,013 heating degree days. In Vienna it would only be around 2,800. In Obergurgl it is just over 5,300 heating degree days. Obergurgl is the highest permanently inhabited village in Austria. The number of heating degree days indicates that the same house in Obergurgl requires around twice as much energy for heating as in Vienna. Manila has 5,300 cooling degree days. If a house in Vienna without thermal insulation and single-pane glass is a pretty extreme waste of energy, it would be twice as extreme in Obergurgl. But that's exactly how all the villas of the rich are in Manila. They also boast an electricity bill of US$ 600 per month. There are also 4 domestic workers in the attic, who also cost US$ 600 per month in wages. After receiving the Gusi Peace Prize in Manila in 2011, I failed to orient the Gusi Peace Prize towards energy and transportation transition. Why is this in today's newsletter?
Because I am currently examining examples of energy-intensive industry for my paper for the CORP.at conference in March and I am currently looking at the electrical production of mineral wool. It takes an average of 2 kWh of electricity to produce 1 kg of mineral wool. And now let's brush aside all the subsidy talk and the pseudo development aid nonsense: build only electrically powered mineral wool factories in the hot countries. A nice big workers' housing estate with GEMINI next generation houses to supply electricity. All on the same site, all without a public power grid. Production costs are extremely low with the cheap electricity from the workers' housing estate. China and the USA have industrial electricity prices of around 8 cents/kWh. But that's no competition because of transportation costs. Thermal insulation consists largely of air and requires a lot of volume for transportation. This is why mineral wool is typically much more expensive in Africa than in Europe. Even if the new factory has the same production costs, the local market is protected by transportation costs. In areas with the same cooling degree days as in Austria heating degree days, the consumption of thermal insulation will also increase to the same level as in Austria. This means more than a hundredfold increase.
In the last newsletter I only looked at the iridium problem in PEM vs AEL electrolysis. But it is an example of another overlooked profitability transition. There was a time when photovoltaics and batteries were very expensive. You can connect a PEM electrolyser directly to a photovoltaic system without any additional electronics in between. With AEL, however, you need a battery for an optimized supply. Here is a calculation for 2010 and estimated prices in 2030: 
Under the extreme earlier PV and battery prices, PEM really was once more economical than AEL. In the 2030 scenario, however, a PEM system for producing the same amount of hydrogen with solar power is already 170% more expensive than an AEL system. This shows what a danger "scientists" are who make calculations on the energy transition using completely outdated prices.
Dead again due to a faulty gas boiler. There are about 10 times as many road deaths, but dead because of a faulty gas boiler is so completely unnecessary. With Chinese heat pump and electricity prices, replacing the gas boiler wouldn't even be the slightest question. But there are three problems in Germany: extremely high prices for heat pumps, extreme electricity prices and planning that can lead to a guaranteed grid failure.
Planetary cleanup back to 350 ppm CO2 means around 47,000 TWh of electricity to filter 1 ppm CO2 from the atmosphere and recycle it into carbon and oxygen. Who can afford that? Only a rich human race, 10 billion people in prosperity can do it. One million km² of energy-optimized settlement areas alone should contribute 150,000 TWh for the necessary electricity for world-wide prosperity and planetary restoration.
It's not about whether the shares will be worth 100 times or 1000 times more in 20 years' time or whether they will only be worth a few cents. It's about the future of us all. Will there be a big showdown between eco-fascism and yesterday's fossils, or will it be possible to overcome the deep divisions in society and inspire supporters of both sides to work towards a great new goal? Global prosperity and planetary restoration instead of saving, restricting, renouncing and climate catastrophe or peak oil and a little more climate catastrophe. Both sides must be convinced that they have no solution that is even remotely viable. On the one hand, it must be shown that net-zero emissions are a completely inadequate target and that the goal must instead be a planetary clean-up back to 350 ppm CO2. The other side must be shown that solar power enables a higher standard of living than fossil energy. It's about survival! The social situation in 2025 compared to 2005, extrapolated to 2045, is a horror world! If we are successful and your shares are worth 100 times more, this is just an addition to all the other achievements. One new shareholder said "Me with my very modest investment", but €400 times €1,000 is also €400,000 for all investments up to the creation of the prototype. There is a reward program for recommending the share to others. Two of the new shareholders have become shareholders through this reward program. Here are the details.
The situation has changed fundamentally since this company visited Slovakia. Necessary investment volume reduced by around 90%. Time to marketable product shortened by around one year. The 90% reduction in investment volume also means that each shareholder has significantly more shares. The share price is now lifted towards our targets at each milestone. These milestones can happen in all areas: Financial, new shareholders, new opportunities to attract new shareholders. Contracts to build the prototype, more houses and settlements. Cooperations for realization. Purchase, arrival and testing of important technical components. |
