Home financing ever possible? Probably not!

Ideally, environmental protection is fun and also saves money. My own photovoltaic system combined with my e-car brings me joy every day. I am also impressed that from March to November you are completely self-sufficient without purchasing electricity. I would not have thought that.

And what losses do you have when charging the home storage and then charging the e-car? That is probably not done during the day at the photovoltaic....

I agree. Recently there have been reports again that projects in the Middle East are generating electricity for 1 to 2 ct/kWh. And what about the efficiency when we convert this into gas? Some voices also say that synthetic gas from renewable energies could be cheaper than natural gas in the medium term. But I don't know where the devil is in the details. Presumably the necessary plants are still just way too expensive.

If you have a fusion power plant available, you can produce arbitrary amounts of E-fuels and E-gas using CO2 and water....

And what losses do you have when charging the home battery and then when charging the electric car? That surely doesn't happen during the day at the photovoltaic system....

Actually, I'm definitely at home 4 days a week and only have to charge once. Losses don't matter at all because more than enough electricity is produced. Feeding in at 8 cents can be ignored anyway. The nice thing is, you don't have to save electricity anymore. Keep the lights on during the day, the heater runs at 2000 watts, and the dishwasher is half full anyway. You become much more wasteful and it’s fun. Photovoltaics rock, as Elon would say :D

Biogas plants running purely on feedstocks are no longer allowed... some will go offline under the current Renewable Energy Act contract

You can also operate biogas plants with organic waste. Power generation is also possible with digester gases from sewage treatment plants and is now being done increasingly often.

True Story. If Germany hadn’t switched on gas power plants in summer 2022 and used the extremely scarce and expensive gas at that time, France would have had to shut down a large part of its industry. It will be interesting when the French accuse us of something again, which they have always been much better at anyway... regularly drinking, for example... The thing with the facade... yes, that happens when laypeople think. In winter you have a lower intensity of radiation, a significantly shorter radiation duration (16 hours of sun in summer, 8 hours of sun in winter...) and usually worse weather conditions in winter as well. On top of that comes the problem of shading, especially in densely built-up areas you will hardly find a facade that is not constantly shaded by adjacent buildings. And in summer, when the sun really burns down... then 0° is catastrophic for utilization. Resource waste, that is what it is in most cases, nothing more. All in all... first paragraph, true. Second paragraph is unfortunately outrageous nonsense. And whether that is enough... that will show when we finally build storage solutions... without those, it won't work anyway.

I’m trying to think out of the box here and to break out of previous thought patterns. If we want to get away from gas, approaches like this also have to be considered. What I read from you and many others here is the following: We ourselves have no idea how to free ourselves from dependence on fossil fuels. Ideally, there would be an immediate expansion of nuclear energy. Or the Holy Spirit will come and magically solve the problem. Although it will come at Pentecost, it will not solve this problem. Many here hold the opinion that large-scale central power plants and storage are the solution. I hold the opinion that decentralized solutions will be the future. That a photovoltaic system at a 90-degree angle has a lower yield in summer than one with a 30-degree tilt is totally clear to me. But it has been repeatedly explained here like a mantra that we have surpluses from photovoltaics in summer and it is not enough in winter. Hence my idea to build systems for optimal yield in winter, since that is where energy is lacking. That it works completely with renewable energies is shown by the Donau Ries district, which covers its entire electricity demand all year round with renewables and even produces surpluses with the mix I described. What annoys me are these people who first find 10 reasons why something can’t work from their point of view and therefore prefer to do nothing at all.

Just that for the foreseeable future we neither have the necessary hardware nor the necessary craftsmen to install it.

But for nuclear power plants we have the craftsmen and hardware? Reminder: We don’t even have fuel rods.