Progress with GEMINI next GenerationWhy, for example, we will offer the house with ventilation system with heat and moisture recovery, where others charge insane surcharges.In short: after the loss of 2 investors due to problems caused by the COVID-19 crisis, a green venture capitalist stepped in and financed the proof of concept. This means the most important home automation components have already been ordered and will be tested starting in February.
Let's imagine a gold rush in Alaska. Many people want to dig for gold. Many travel to Alaska for the great adventure. Once there, the great adventure begins in the store for gold digging equipment. There is a pickaxe for sale for US$ 9000. The desperate wannabe: Gold Digger: "Why is this pickaxe so extremely expensive?" Seller: "Good gold miners mine gold with this for US$10,000, it's fair if we split the profit 90:10" Gold digger: "But I am a beginner, what if I dig only US$5,000 gold with the pickaxe?" Seller: "That's your bad luck then. We base our prices on the top elite gold miners. Some even dig gold with this pick for US$ 11,000". Desperate, the gold digger leaves the store, he continues down the street, there he sees in a shop window: special offer, only for a short time, pickaxe for only US$ 8990! Absurd? No, this is the reality when it comes to electricity storage, heat pumps and ventilation systems with heat recovery.
After I started the first GEMINI project in the fall of 1991, I saw such ventilation systems for the first time in February 1992 at the Austrobau trade fair in Salzburg. It was explained to me that they were common in Scandinavia and would now also become established here. That was 28 years ago. Why has this not become widely accepted? Quite simply, if such a system saves 4000 kWh of heat every year for 25 years and the cost of heat is calculated at 12 cents/kWh, then this is a saving of €12,000. Now we apply to it the price calculation of this gold digger business: Profit 90:10 sharing. So this ventilation system must cost 10,800 € divided fairly. In fact, in a surcharge list of a well-known prefabricated house manufacturer, I discovered a ventilation system with heat recovery from exhaust air for 10,700 €. Even energy consultants have refrained from recommending ventilation systems with heat recovery from exhaust air as absolutely necessary because of the absurd prices.
Should I order the smallest unit, or one that is generously oversized, which allows operation with extremely low air velocity through 200 mm ventilation pipes and is therefore also very quiet? The smallest unit provides 150 m³/h through 120 mm ventilation pipes. The next larger models for 250 and 350 m³/h use 150 mm pipes. Only the 500 m³/h model has the very thick 200 mm pipes. For 66 m² of living space, 150 m³/h would be quite enough, but the extra charge for the 500 m³/h device is so small. Thanks to 10-stage adjustable fan, you can regulate the large device down to 50 m³/h. Perhaps it increases living comfort if the sensor for volatile organic compounds registers onion cutting and automatically ramps up the ventilation to 500 m³/h? Kitchen always belongs to the exhaust air rooms, i.e. the rooms from which the ventilation system extracts air. Perhaps 2 of these ventilation systems are also sufficient for the greenhouse? A clear answer to this question will only be provided by the CO2 sensor in the exhaust air of the greenhouse: If the CO2 content of the air drops below 300 ppm despite fully running ventilation, the ventilation for the greenhouse must probably be dimensioned even larger. There are 3 prices in the bid for the ventilation system: US$ 588 EXW, US$ 490 FOB, US$ 452 FOB. These are the prices for 1 piece, a 20' container and a 40' container.
You go into the configurator of a premium car. Shock, what does it say:
Of course, a ventilation system with heat and moisture recovery from exhaust air is part of the standard equipment of a GEMINI next generation house. The on-board computer controls CO2, humidity, volatile organic compounds and formaldehyde and uses this data to decide on the amount of air exchange between 50 and 500 m³/h. 24 kW peak photovoltaic, 42 kWh lithium iron phosphate batteries, it would also work without electricity, only then you could not sell all the surplus electricity. The newsletter would be much too long, if I would list all special technical features. Some are still secret and in development and will only be announced at a strategically favorable time. For example, at the next round of financing when the company is founded. 90,000 € DIY self-purchase price and 130,000 € turnkey for a premium house? Yes, it is calculated like at Aldi and not like in the equipment store in the gold rush settlement.
In Germany, the Greens have something against the single-family house. That's just as understandable as someone having something against the Ford-T as a new car. The Ford-T looks good in a museum, on a vintage car outing, but really shouldn't be built new. It is simply 110 year old technology that is absolutely out of date. Exactly the same applies to houses that do not meet the Climate Superiority House standard:
Instead of consuming a lot of energy, generate a lot of electricity. With glass house, with Vertical Farming Aeroponic produce more food than on the land area agriculture could. The new building standard is called climate superiority house. The GEMINI next generation house is to be the first house according to the new building standard climate superiority house.
It is getting warmer and drier. This can have drastic consequences for crop yields. Can a house produce more food than its occupants consume? In hot, dry countries, water consumption is the biggest problem: here's a list of water consumption in food production. These gigantic amounts of water can be reduced to less than 2 liters per kg. However, this is only possible in a closed system, which requires enormous cooling power and the supply of CO2. The large-scale air-source heat pumps are supplemented with a CO2 filter. The CO2 extracted from the air is used to supply the plants and for methanol production. With the sunshine in Jordan, 5 m x 7.6 m glass house instead of terrace can produce 3 tons of vegetables per year even with the standard model.
It's about much more than renewable energy. It's about a stable society. It's about much more than a stable society for a few generations. It is about a stable society for many billions of years. Infinitism is this philosophy to create a stable society and as a united humanity to tackle projects that are completely unimaginable to 99 he people today, but a necessity for a lasting civilization. GEMINI next Generation is an essential part of demonstrating basic elements of a stable society.
The difference between energy generation and energy consumption should be as high as possible. This must replace the old idea "We must save energy, whatever the cost". The passive house is the perfect expression of the old philosophy "We must save energy, whatever the cost". The Passive House described in 3 words: "Freezing for the rich".
All the scenarios where it is sufficient to reduce emissions to zero are becoming more and more implausible. Thawing permafrost and outgassing methane hydrate pose an enormous potential threat to climate development. A little reduction will not be enough. Even 100% less CO2 emission might still be too little. 200% less, i.e. no further human CO2 emission plus active reduction by filtering and cracking, should be sufficient. But this filtering of CO2 from the atmosphere and splitting into C and O is an enormous effort that only a wealthy humanity with an industrial base completely based on renewable energy can manage. Therefore saving restricting renouncing is life-threatening for mankind.
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