Energy transportation costsEnergy from distant, very sunny regions: It's like deciding to buy by mail order for €5 plus €10 shipping or locally for €15.Grid fees were increased in 2025 and represent a significant portion of the electricity bill. Grid fees are the transportation costs of electricity. Why are these costs rising? Because grid cessation plants force extremely inefficient grid expansion. A grid connection is being built for a new large photovoltaic plant, which will not even have 1,000 full load hours per year. Grid fees will rise as a result of this madness as long as new systems are not required to feed into the grid in line with demand. With 3 kWh of battery per kW of photovoltaics, the grid connection can be dimensioned completely differently. About 1/3 the size, but 3,000 full load hours per year.
Offshore wind is expensive, but have the grid expansion costs also been taken into account here? Around 800 km of line from the North Sea to Bavaria, how many GW should it have? My variant with a lot of solar power also requires an electricity grid this far north to central power-to-methane plants and central CCGT power plants, but here the average line length would be much shorter.
Regardless of the political system, in the first half of the 20th century the doctrine "electricity to the last village" applied. Let's take a small village in Romania with 200 houses and an electricity requirement of 200 kWh per house per year. To supply this, a medium-voltage line has to be built over 8 km and a wire tangle through the entire settlement. Let's assume an inflation-corrected 40 cents/kWh. 200 houses times 200 kWh times 40 cents is €16,000 per year. How are you supposed to finance all that effort? Only through the political mandate and cross-financing via other electricity customers and the general tax system.
If a lot of oil or gas needs to be transported, the cheapest version is a pipeline. In the case of gas transportation, this pipeline is supplemented by large underground gas storage facilities. The demand for natural gas is lower in summer than in winter. The gas pipeline is therefore designed for a constant throughput and the gas storage facilities are filled in the summer months and emptied in the winter months. Cost optimizers have probably calculated this to be more economical than an even larger gas pipeline that is only fully utilized on cold winter days. In comparison, transportation by ship performs extremely poorly. The natural gas first has to be liquefied and is then transported thousands of kilometers in special ships. Natural gas only has to be cooled to -164°C to become liquid. This is much worse with hydrogen, which only becomes liquid at -253°C and this requires around 16 kWh of electricity per kg of hydrogen. This cooling is carried out with heat pumps. With heat pumps, every degree counts. A flow temperature of 35°C for underfloor heating or 55°C for radiators can make the difference between very economical and a total flop. The temperature difference between the warm and cold side of the heat pump must be as small as possible. The difference between liquid methane and hydrogen is 99°C more temperature difference. Instead of liquefying hydrogen, a chemical transportation method is also being considered: Converting hydrogen into ammonia. Here's a study about it. On page 4 it says "Range of evaluated literature" and then there is a table showing that the production of ammonia is not exactly blessed with a high degree of efficiency. And then there is the cost of converting ammonia back to hydrogen. At least ammonia is already liquid at -33°C. The direct energetic use of ammonia is also mentioned. How well does a CCGT power plant work with ammonia? Here is a scientific study on this. Seems to be anything but trivial because of the NOx emissions. N for nitrogen is the main component of ammonia. As a reminder: the emissions scandal consisted of NOx emissions. VW did not want customers to be constantly spraying AdBlue into the exhaust gas to neutralize NOx. Therefore, exhaust gas cleaning was only carried out when the engine control unit gave the impression of being on a test bench. For example, a cab driver with 350,000 km still had the AdBlue tank half full, otherwise it would have had to be refilled around 200 times. Other methods of transporting hydrogen are methane or methanol. Methanol is the only variant that is liquid at room temperature. The purchase of chemical energy from very sunny regions far away is explained trivially: it is like deciding to buy by mail order for €5 plus €10 shipping costs or locally for €15.
I addressed the issue of energy from distant, very sunny regions versus local electricity production as early as 1992 in my book "Aufstieg zum Solarzeitalter". "It's like deciding to buy by mail order for €5 plus €10 shipping costs or locally for €15", to put it trivially, energy-optimized residential areas are the way to push the price of local shopping down to €10.
In May, I wrote software for cost optimization of off-grid fast-charging settlements: finding the optimal mix of sodium batteries, iron-air batteries and power to methanol at 50 different locations. To do this, price assumptions had to be made. This provided new insights into the dimensioning of these components. Such a cost optimization for large areas requires a lot of research work, unfortunately it is to be feared that there is no scientific staff available for this in Germany. Any specialist scientist who does not contradict the total nonsense of this energy transition has already disqualified himself.
Just got the bill for December. My first Spotty year. I switched at the beginning of December 2023 because my previous provider wanted to increase my monthly payment to €39.30 despite only consuming 1020 kWh per year. I paid € 528.45 in 2024, but received 2,571 kWh of electricity in return. Driving Tesla Y SR RWD since July 1, 19,400 km by the end of December, 62% charged at home. The average electricity price including all taxes is therefore 20.55 cents/kWh. Here to Spotty Energy. Very important: Ask with every electricity offer whether this is with or without a grid fee.
Net zero emissions means reducing greenhouse gas emissions to a level that nature can supposedly absorb for a long time. For the rich, this means Maintain poverty, cause poverty, so that enough emission rights remain for the rich. See the architect and her opinion that Africans don't need roads.
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.
It's not about whether the shares will be worth 10 times or 100 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 2024 compared to 2004. Extrapolating that to 2044 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 €4,000 times €1,000 is also €4 million for all investments up to the opening of the settlement in Unken as a starting point for global expansion. 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.
My studies on off-grid fast-charging settlements have already resulted in initial contact and a video conference with the CEO of a major African company. The most important statements: "There are about 2 million homes missing" and "Solar-powered cement factories are a fascinating new idea". Initial negotiations have been held with two financing platforms. There are several chances of an event that could lead to a jump in the share price. At today's share price, € 2 million would be 10,000 packages at € 200 and 300,000 shares for the buyer. However, if these € 2 million are only worth 20% of the AG, this would logically result in a very significant jump in the share price. |
