Simson - Winterberg - Vectrix
While writing this newsletter, I read some of my newsletters between 2008 and 2014. Again and again "The wall of silence".
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Simson SR50 Gamme E electric scooter
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Ever since I designed the GEMINI habitable solar power plant in September 1991, I have been very interested in electric mobility. The first specification was "Charge an electric car for a daily trip into town". This was expanded just weeks later to "Make an adequate contribution to the country's overall energy supply".
Despite my interest in the subject, I only found out about the Simson electric scooter in 2009. In 1994, the Simson electric scooter had the technical level of Chinese electric scooters in 2004.
Not an insignificant market, in China 30 million units per year, global demand could reach 100 million per year. The 300 million in China save around 1 million barrels of oil per day.
On June 27, 2008, at the height of the oil price crisis, I wrote a series of articles about the oil phase-out. Among them was that large ships will travel up to 1,000 km on batteries. On July 15, 2008, Dr. Franz Winterberg discovered this page with the question "heavy oil kWh" in a search engine.
In 1995, Dr. Franz Winterberg offered the German car cartel lithium batteries specially developed for electric cars.
The cartel thought "oil is cheap and eternal, the electric car will never come", but probably thought "fraud is cheaper than innovation".
Here is a Grok analysis of Dieselgate. The very first indications were already there in 1998.
Today, 30 years later, we know what a colossal mistake this was. Building battery factories, developing new cars and, above all, testing them takes time. But what would the car market look like if there had been an electric Audi A8, BMW 7 and Mercedes S in 2005? If there had been an electric Audi A4, BMW 3, Mercedes C and VW Golf in 2008?
At the same time, in 1995 in China, Wang Chuanfu borrowed US$ 300,000 to manufacture cell phone batteries in a 400 m² factory building. That was the beginning of BYD, today the 5th largest car manufacturer in the world and the 2nd largest battery manufacturer, surpassed only by CATL.
What could Dr. Franz Winterberg have become? The founder of a German CATL (the largest battery manufacturer in the world)?
Here is an analysis of Grok on patent applications by Dr. Franz Winterberg. Many years of development work can lie between a patent application and the industrial use of a new manufacturing process. Tesla announced the 4680 cell on September 22, 2020 during the so-called "Battery Day". Another dry manufacturing technology. Despite Tesla's huge resources, successful series production has only now been announced.
Vectrix was the first manufacturer of electric maxi scooters. I discovered Vectrix at EVER Monaco 2006 and reported a lot about this innovation.
The Vectrix demonstration tour also came to Salzburg in October 2007, exactly on the day when a barrel cost over US$ 90 for the first time in the looming oil price crisis. Headlines? No, deathly silence! The systematic silence on these demonstration tours led to the end of Vectrix.
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The oil price crosses $90 per barrel and in Salzburg on the Mozart place is our future mobility without oil and CO2 emission shown. Headlines? Big media coverage?
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A 90 km/h moped is far less dangerous on a country road than a 45 km/h moped. You know this at the latest when a 42 t articulated lorry overtakes despite walking traffic. Therefore an important extension of electric mobility compared to 45 km/h mopeds.
What if all three had known about each other?
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My publications since 2023
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Articles in the media are very important for a small start-up. Here are all the articles I've written since 2023:
EIKE is considered by climate activists to be the most terrible climate change denial portal there is. But my plans for a cost-optimized energy transition are so convincing that I was able to publish them there.
Background to this: At the end of July 2024, I was lying on the beach and got terribly upset about an EIKE post on Facebook. I called immediately and had a factual discussion with an editor for half an hour. At the end of the conversation: send us an article.
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Germany, Austria a toxic environment for innovation
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While writing this newsletter, I read some of my newsletters between 2008 and 2014. Again and again, "The wall of silence". What good is it if I write about demand-based grid feed-in and 3 kWh battery per kWp of photovoltaics if AGORA Energiewende September 2014 writes in all mass media "We don't need electricity storage for the energy transition for another 20 years"?
What good is it if I go to the Hanover Industrial Fair with the concept "Germany as an industrial location and climate-neutral by 2045?", if this completely passes the attention of around 20 journalists in the press center: "That's not my topic".
The golden years of the German photovoltaic industry? They were blown because they wanted to produce more as quickly as possible in order to rip off the EEG subsidy with PV modules that were far too expensive.
Instead of 7% for research and development, as in mechanical engineering, only 0.7% was invested. Here is an overview from Grok.
Everywhere you look, it's sheer madness. This incident as a symbol for the stupidity of the German photovoltaic industry.
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The planetary restoration mentality
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Planetary cleanup back to 350 ppm CO2 means about 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.
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GEMINI next Generation AG will prove the contrary
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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, makes for 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.
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