Complaining instead of admitting mistakesThese people really haven't understood the question “What does it look like to replace a nuclear power plant with solar power?” for 31 years.This is an age-old topic. This is what I wrote on the subject back in 1996. At the moment, many fans of renewable energy are moaning about nuclear energy. Yes, how can it be that several countries have decided to phase out nuclear power? But these people just moan and have not the slightest intention of discussing their mistakes. If you consider yourself to be perfect, even the mere suspicion of a mistake is a serious insult. I had just finished my first book in 1994. I was traveling a lot and every time I saw an anti-nuclear information booth, I went up and asked, “What does it look like to replace a nuclear power plant with solar power?” I expected curiosity and an opportunity to show page 196 of my book. But that's not how these people tick. I was insulted several times as a nuclear fanatic and driven away from the stand. “How can you ask such stupid questions?” was the nicest reaction. Last year there was news that some big companies like Microsoft were interested in nuclear power plants to cover the electricity needs of AI. So I called some anti-nuclear initiatives: “Energy-optimized residential areas instead of nuclear power plants”. Most of them failed because they had only ever learned to be against something, but never for something. There were several phone calls with one of these initiatives: “We can't support you because you are against restrictions, that's not possible” was the end of it. In the last few days, I have read several times on Facebook about the incomprehension with which people are reacting to the nuclear phase-out. These people really haven't understood the question “What does it look like to replace a nuclear power plant with solar power?” for 31 years.
Imagine a homeowner being forced by the heating law to take out a €150,000 loan for a heat pump, thermal renovation and underfloor heating. 750 per month loan installment for 30 years. Then comes this very cold, windless night. Power cut, nothing works. It gets uncomfortably cold in the house. Any normal person can then put themselves in the shoes of this homeowner and understand that they are very angry with those who deliberately caused this disaster. But not these fanatics. Here on Facebook a prime example of how fanatics discuss this. They have no idea that gas-fired power plants with 300 GW of photovoltaics and 750 GWh of batteries in Germany will use more and more methane from summer surplus electricity. Is it natural to have so little idea and open your mouth so wide?
Merz's 551 questions about NGOs were like stirring up a hornet's nest. In all my contacts with NGOs, I have always asked myself: are they social critics or civil servants? Mental inflexibility, service by the book, makes them look like civil servants.
If, in a scenario framework for 2045, there are 52 GW of gas-fired power plants on a cold, windless winter night compared to 18 million heat pumps and 5.7 GW of large heat pumps for district heating, then this cannot be described as research by any stretch of the imagination. If 500 GW of photovoltaics are offset by 119 GWh of batteries and 80 GW of Power to X, then this cannot be described as research by any stretch of the imagination.
There was an Investorentage Thüringen stand at the Hanover Industrial Fair. I immediately applied and actually thought I would be in Thuringia for pitch training in Erfurt on Tuesday, May 13. 
But on Monday I received this email: Thank you very much for your application for the Investor Days Thuringia. Unfortunately, your startup could not prevail against the other applications and it was not enough for the pitch pitch and the innovation arena. How could this happen? Quite simply, trained reflexes:
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 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 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 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. A 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. |
