Emission-free steel production
However, the real hammer is then fertilizer and steel production: 3 to 4 cents/kWh without and 6 to 9 cents/kWh with 200 €/t CO2 tax as a profitable electricity price.
As part of my paper for the CORP.at conference, I am currently investigating the marginal costs of purely electrical production in various energy-intensive industries. What should electricity cost, without any CO2 taxation or with 200 €/t CO2, to make purely electrical production worthwhile?
Firstly, there is the recycling of scrap iron. Without CO2 tax, this is already profitable in the range of 8 to 11 cents/kWh, with 200 €/t CO2 tax even at 15 to 20 cents/kWh. This is why this technology is already being used on a relevant scale.
Conversion of mineral wool production to electricity is profitable without CO2 tax at 8.5 cents/kWh. That's why I've already been able to talk to companies that use it. With CO2 tax, the range is 15 to 20 cents/kWh.
Cement production is much more expensive: 4.8 cents/kWh. The LEUBE cement plant is very close to where I live. If we were to switch to electricity there, the electricity demand would increase from 110 GWh/a to 360 GWh/a, but 400 GWh/a of thermal energy would be eliminated. The grid charges would then be 1.6 cents/kWh.
With CO2 tax it should be 10 to 12 cents/kWh. Now some will cheer, my energy community supplies for 10 cents/kWh. 1.6 cents/kWh grid fee and it fits. Unfortunately, the calculation was completely wrong. Unfortunately, the price of horse apples compared with apples. There is currently only 1 kW of wind energy for every 5 kW of newly installed photovoltaics. A shutdown from October to February to make solar power work?
Simulated under realistic efficiencies, just over 50% of the solar power in Salzburg can be converted to 24×365 electricity, from 1 kW peak in west-east orientation only 445 kWh/a.
The same equipment of photovoltaics, batteries, power to methanol and power plant generates 1072 kWh/a in Egypt. From a purely gross yield perspective, the difference is only 85% more, but after conversion to 24×365 electricity, this increases to 141% more.
With the price assumptions for 2030 to 2035 and the cost optimization through energy-optimized settlement areas, purely electric cement production in Austria is profitable at 200 €/t CO2 tax. Here are two prerequisites!
However, the real hammer is then fertilizer and steel production: 3 to 4 cents/kWh without and 6 to 9 cents/kWh with CO2 tax as a profitable electricity price. 3 to 4 cents for 24×365 electricity are quite possible in sunny countries with the expected cost development. Steel production in Germany for domestic demand is also possible, after all there are also transportation costs. But how can you export then?
The cost differences are similar to those in 1820, whether the nearest coal mine is 25 km or 500 km away. What the cost of coal was back then, the cost of 24×365 solar power will be in the future.
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The only compensation: land for energy
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The exchange of land for energy would be favored by high land prices in Germany. Convert grassland into building land, lease price 60 kWh 24 electricity per year. Multiplied by 10,000 km², this amounts to 600 TWh/a of 24 electricity as a lease. Here, high land prices are exceptionally an advantage: who would accept such an offer at €20/m² of building land?
There are possibilities, but not if there is a strict refusal to even discuss new possibilities. But it is even worse when cancel culture triggers the strictest rejection among fanboys and extreme fear among the persecuted.
I experienced two phone calls full of panic: after Fukushima about nuclear energy and in 2023, when a prominent YouTuber broke off all contact because I could be a "contact debt" and this could destroy his existence.
With blinkers on the road to hell.
Absurd? Not in Absurdistan!
A successful 2026 to all my readers! What does this look like for the GEMINI next generation project? The most important point for 2026 is Hungary. Even with significantly lower incomes, a Hungarian can afford a GEMINI house more easily than an Austrian. Hungary has a family policy and this includes very good housing subsidies. The 300 GWh/a battery production planned for 2030 is 8 times the domestic demand, even with my radical plans for the energy and transport transition.
Completed plans for single-family homes with 140 kWh (single, with double garage) to 220 kWh (in energy-optimized residential areas) should therefore meet with enthusiasm on the part of the battery industry and the politicians who support the battery industry.
If the entire EU really only manages 750 GWh/a of battery production by 2030, then 40% of this could be in Hungary.
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The planetary restoration mentality
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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.
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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, 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.
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GEMINI shares: time to buy - milestones
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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. |
Simulated under realistic efficiencies, just over 50% of the solar power in Salzburg can be converted to 24×365 electricity, from 1 kW peak in west-east orientation only 445 kWh/a.
The same equipment of photovoltaics, batteries, power to methanol and power plant generates 1072 kWh/a in Egypt. From a purely gross yield perspective, the difference is only 85% more, but after conversion to 24×365 electricity, this increases to 141% more.
With the price assumptions for 2030 to 2035 and the cost optimization through energy-optimized settlement areas, purely electric cement production in Austria is profitable at 200 €/t CO2 tax. Here are two prerequisites!
However, the real hammer is then fertilizer and steel production: 3 to 4 cents/kWh without and 6 to 9 cents/kWh with CO2 tax as a profitable electricity price. 3 to 4 cents for 24×365 electricity are quite possible in sunny countries with the expected cost development. Steel production in Germany for domestic demand is also possible, after all there are also transportation costs. But how can you export then?
The cost differences are similar to those in 1820, whether the nearest coal mine is 25 km or 500 km away. What the cost of coal was back then, the cost of 24×365 solar power will be in the future.
