Street Washed Out
Yesterday used, today a hole in the street. Presumably by under washing the street. Material was carreid away by water until the surface collapsed.
| Sitemap - theme index - living + construction + energy
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Overview about all themes in our living, construction and energy magazine.
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| Houses
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Picked houses where we made reportages in our technical magazine.
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| Energy supply with renewable energy
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Huge changeovers in our energy supply are imminent. We report over the condition of the technologies and their future-potential of different sources of energy.
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| Technic for buildings and living
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Modern domestic technic from air to air heat exchange to central vacuum cleaners. Directory over all our reports about house technic.
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| Plan for house building - requirements specifications
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From the first idea over the requirements specifications and how this develops to constructions plans. The development of my second plus energy house.
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| Furniture - interior design
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Furniture and interior design with furniture. Directory about all our reports about furniture and stuff for interior design.
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| Money capital investment rendite
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At weak conjuncture and predicted crises like the explosion of the oil price to find the proper investment strategy to hold the value and for a secure future.
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| 1992 book project advance to solar age starts
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32 pages DIN A4 about the plus energy house seems to be not enough for the search for investors. A book has to be written to show the project in all it's importance.
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| 1996 new not silicon thin film photovoltaic
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For areas with much cloudy weather is at photovoltaic not the best efficiency at full sun shine decisively.
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| Solar architecture against wrong formulas
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Again and again, there are critics which want to proof it's uneconomically
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| 1998 Zero energy house in Halbenrain
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From 1993 application for construction until 1998 had been in Halbenrain, Vulkanland, sourth east part of Styria a generous designed zero energy house built.
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| Solar house near Radkersburg
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The solar house in Halbenrain near Radkersburg. After the technical documentation about energy, here the furnishings of the rooms.
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| Precast construction for less than 1000.-EUR per squaremeter
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Completely furnished and with domestic technic. Expensive foundation unnecessary. There was on the Caravan show in Düsseldorf an encounter with the remarkable prices of mobile homes.
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| 2000 Study over (a)social
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How to make living together es intolerably as possible? A very successfull realization of this target is the Polaring settlement in Salzburg.
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| GEMINI house on the styria country exhibition in Weiz
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Nearly 10 years after the first concept, the first examination by the inventor Roland Mösl. First impressions of the inhabited solar power plant.
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| 100000 roof program in Pilsting - Bavaria
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Photos froum houses in Pilsting participating in the 100000 roof program with equipment and technical data.
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| Passive house pioneer in Salzburg
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23 years after the first passive house in Salzburg, we with the pioneer and his energy saving Haus. Construction details became a lifework: Sera wall heating
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| 2004 increasing oil price shows how stupid anti solar people are
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Solar energy is not economical told us since long time the users of oil heating. Now this people plea and wail for a government furtherance for the expensive fuel oil.
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| Requirements specifications for one family house
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13 years after the planning of the first plus energy house GEMINI is a new one family house planned. The feasibility is proven, the new challenge is a realization as cheap as possible.
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| Warmth in a house inuslation and cold bridges
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It's possible without expensive infrared camera. Already with a 25.-EUR infrared thermometer, It's possible to investigate thermal insulation and cold bridges in a house.
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| Mar Menor golf resort: Spain, area Murcia
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By our visit in September, 2004 some houses and parts of the golf arrangement were already ready. On the rest of the settlement it was worked intensely.
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| Spain Murcia golf real estate
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Isla Rondella: House for golf players direct on the golf course in golf resort Mar Menor.
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| Spain Murcia golf real estate
Villa Isla del Baron
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Isla del Baron: House for golfers direct on the golf course in golf resort Mar Menor.
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| Golf real estate Spain Murcia
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Isla Perdiguera: Houses for golf enthusiasts direct on the golf place in golf resort Mar Menor.
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| 2005 real estates and mobility
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The demand for future secure real estate increases. From the simple roof over the head, operating expenses do not matter because energy is cheap, to self supply with heat and electric power.
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| Cellar or foundation
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When I came along one year ago to the house planning, I still thought a cheap foundation and no cellar. However, with the progress of the planning everything looks completely different.
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| Photovoltaic or solar collector
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Best of all 100% of the roof surface with photovoltaik and 100% with Sonenkollektoren. This goes by a new technology which unites both functions in the same surface perfectly.
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| Electric power and heat of wood
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The oil price is rising, Peak oil dreaded by the economy gets closer. Which role can play wood in the future of our mobility and energy supply?
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| Plus energy settlement in Freiburg
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Houses a lot of energy need are out. Passive houses are only sparing, however, generate no energy. Only plus energy houses can protect our prosperity in future.
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| Future urban development
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New technical development brings new planning targets for municipal politicians and new design possibilities for architects.
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| Solar price Eurosolar Austria in 2005
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On Saturday 15th October, 2005 this year's Prize award of Eurosolar Austria took place in the city hall of Purkersdorf near Vienna.
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| Biogas direcly from plants
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More hectare yield in energy allows the biogas production in Strem. Using again fallow sites for the agriculture, an income for farmers from the energy production.
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| Life in Romania 2005
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From birds keeping in a settlement of small farmers, newly built single family house in loam straw construction
and changes in urban residential blocks.
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| Planning an one family house
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I started 2004 with the requirements specifications for the planned construction. One year later how the requirements specifications develops to plans.
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| Fair Austrobau 2005
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Fair report of construction fair Austrobau February, 2005 in Salzburg
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| Construction fair of Vienna in 2005
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Fair report of the construction fair Vienna in February 2005.
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| Energy saving fair Wels 2005
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Fair report from the Wels energy saving fiar in March 2005. Self experiences as an engine for a heat pump and with an infrared camera.
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| BWS Tools fair of Salzburg in 2005
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News and statements on current topics concerning the energy transition, climate protection and the necessary development towards worldwide wealth.
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| Intersolar fair 2005 in Freiburg
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Fair report from Intersolar 2005 in Freiburg. In 3 parts. fair in general, only about Photovoltaikand special part solar power for Africa.
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| Solar energy for a better life in Africa
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On Intersolar 2005, Solar compact showed affordable solutions for all people without public electricity net and almost without money.
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| Weiz convention and exhibition house renovation 2005
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13..15 October 2005, Weiz convention about ecological house renovation with exhibition..
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| Residential design fair 2005 Vienna Hofburg
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Fair report of the residential design fair from the 13th to the 16th of October, 2005 in the rooms of Viennese Hofburg. Exclusives ambience for exclusive pieces of furniture.
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| Material Vision Frankfurt 2005
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Fair report of the exhibition for new material 10 and 11 Novermber 2005 in Frankfurt. Table of contents page 1 of 3.
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| 2006 hause construction and the climate question
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Built for the future. Many new buildings from the present will be in a short time, long time before installment is paid, an expensive renovation case.
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| Snow roof and snow weight
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A winter with extrem much snow forces to reevaluate all our roofs. Not only that most roofs produce not energy, they are at much snow deadly dangerously.
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| In 2006 fair CASA for interior decoration Salzburg
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Fair report of the trade fair for interior design and decoration CASA in February, 2006 in Salzburg.
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| 2006 Austrobau - construction fair in Salzburg
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Fair report from the house construction and domestic energy fair Austrobau in February 2006 in Salzburg
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| 2006 Vienna construction fair
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Fair report from the construction fair in Vienna February 2006.
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| 2006 Wels energy saving + construction fair
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Fair report from the construction and energy saving fair in Wels March 2006
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| Intersolar 2006 solar energy fair in Freiburg
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General part from the fair report Intersolar 2006 in Freiburg. Big special report about roof integrated photovoltaic. Roof constructions with built in photovoltaic.
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| Intersolar 2006 solar roof integration
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Special report from the Intersolar 2006: Roof integrated photovoltaic systems. General part.
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| Photovoltaic and solar energy fair China Peking 2006
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International fair for the complete production chain from solar energy products from 22 to 24 October in Peking. From the rural off grid system to the photovoltaic fabric.
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| Design furniture fair Hofburg Vienna 2006
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Fair report of the residential design fair October, 2006 in the rooms of Viennese Hofburg. Exclusives ambience for exclusive pieces of furniture.
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| 2007 separate the wheat from the chaff
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We examine some projects for energy generation for the feasibility. There are sometimes big surprises between promotion videos and our parameters.
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| 2007 Building and living instead of Austrobau
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The old Name ''Austrobau'' had been replaced by ''Bauen und Wohnen''. Fair report from the building and living 2007 in Salzburg.
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| 2007 Wels energy saving + construction fair
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Fair report from the construction and energy saving fair in Wels March 2007
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| Intersolar 2006 solar energy fair in Freiburg
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Fair report from the last intersolar in Freiburg. The worldwide largest fair for solar energy has on the fair ground from Freiburg not enough place.
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| Düsseldorf mobil home fair 2007
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On the caravan show is outside an overview about the numerouse offers of mobile homes. From cheap mobil homes up to low energy house standard.
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| 2008 News about energy, building and live
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A time of fast change. Nothing remains in the energy sector like it was. Project designers have to learn to think with a complete new cost structure.
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| News about construction, live and energy 2008
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Comments, background information and calculations daily acutal to messages around construction, live and energy
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| 2008 Building and living instead of Austrobau
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Fair report from the building and living February 14 to 17 2007 in Salzburg.
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| Energy for the future
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Who has energy can solve problems. Examples over methods and magnitudes for the future energy supply of mankind.
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| IEA WEO crude oil price and production
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Comments to an interview in international politic April 20008 The sirens scream, Talk from Astrid Schneider and Fatih Birol.
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| Heat of earth
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Not only take but also give is the newest trend at heat of earth usage. We document this in the view of a company building from 1984.
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| Intersolar 2008 in Munich
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For the first time in Munich,the Intersolar was able to enlarge on 7 large fair halls on the fair ground Munich Riem. Soon large report! Here to the special part mobility
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| Solar duty
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Study about the fast increase of electric power from photovoltaic. The German energy entry law is the best possible for 2004. The solar duty orients at the possibilities of 2008.
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| Construction project standard 2020
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Planning 2008, realisation 2009, construction standard 2020. PEGE does not plan a super house, but only the standard, the simple average in an oil free future.
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| Lithium battery as electric power storage
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Basic calculation models for lithium an electricity storage. The textbook to recognise early, at what applications is rentability already given, or is short before rentability.
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| 2009 The fossil recession is contradicted
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Peak oil brought 2008 all economy bubbles to burst, but instead of a consequent change to renewable energy, the fossil stuck in the mud do not give up.
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| Break through at lithium batteries
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Much longer service life and an evident reduction at the production costs. A new generation of lithium energy storage crucial for oil exit and climate protection.
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| Water from seawater
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Seawater desalination plants at lowest energy consumption under 2,5 kWh per m³ drinking water! Utilizing the Pressure Exchanger energy recovery system in combination with
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| Intersolar 2009 photovoltaic fair
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Fair report from the Intersolar 2009. It is possible to built up solar energy as fast as the production of crude oil and natural gas decreases.
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| Baile Herculane in Romania
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From the last visit of my wife 1995 until 2009, a frightening decay of the famouse rheumatism bath happend, where even the old Romans cured their rheumatic deseases.
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| European cultural monument
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A historic marker for an internationally protected cultural monument. In 1995 this historic building was used as a luxury hotel for visitors of the health resort.
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| Luxury hotel 1995
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The sign now mocks visitors that visit the ruin that what was once an international cultural monument and luxury hotel.
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| Downspout removed
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At all this cultural monument protected building are at the roof all downspouts removed
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| Wall erosion
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Maybe this wall erosion was caused by a removed downspout.
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| Downspout cutted
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At this also under international cultural monument protection beeing building is the
downspout cutted.
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| Water damage by cut downspout
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You want to get rid of a cultural monument protected building? Maybe a cut downspout is the preferred method.
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| Wall break through
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Want to install a natural gas stove in a building protected as a cultural monument? Very simple - punch a hole in the wall for the chimney.
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| Cooling on the house
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A hotel in Herculane from a time where architects thought that an additional radiator is cheaper than thermal insulation. The concret beam on the concret wall cools additional.
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| Hole in street
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I drove down this street with my car on August 17th and stopped just in time to avoid this large sinkhole. It will be a big surprise for all the foreigners that drive way too fast...
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| Impressions from Romania 2009
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August 2009 on the way in Romania
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| Renewable energy depends from storage for electric power
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Applied Materials wants to sell photovoltaic factories, but why only 80 and not 400 MW for a town with 1 million inhabitants? Without storage technology is not more possible.
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| 2010 again what PEGE does since 1992
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Create awareness about the necessary speed and magnitude of the change to renewable energy. An energy prognosis of PEGE in 1992 for 2040 better than most current ones.
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| High-Carbon Lignite Impedes German Climate Policy
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Guest article from Jefffrey H. Michel about CCS, brown coal (lignite) in Germany and the problems with the German climate politics.
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| Electric power price
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The different offer of solar and wind, the storage technology and in the time moveable electric power consumption lead to a very complex construction.
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| Intersolar 2010
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The Intersolar grows, the photovoltaikc market grows, but not fast enough to replace fossil energy in the required dimension fastest.
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| RenExpo Salzburg 2010
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Vom 25 bis 27 November 2010 fand in Salzburg zum 2. mal die RenExpo statt. Messebericht von der RenExpo Salzburg.
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| 2011 a splited world
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While in EU+USA the eternal stuck in the mud believers in fossil energy swear that finite resources in fossil energy are eternal, China goes intensiv towards a new age.
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| Land for Energy
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Living under photovoltaic. Give them land for an own house. Require electric power as lease. Same yield like at an Outdoor PV-plant required.
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| Solar PPS - Portable Power Supply
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With 400 Wh storage, 300 watts of AC and 120 watts of solar input, everything can be supplied up to a refrigerator.
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| 2017 Reports Energy Technology
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Create framework conditions for innovation and new markets or prevent them. The route from Germany to an innovation hostile country.
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| Intersolar Trade Fair Munich 2017
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Intersolar is growing again after years of shrinkage in 2016 only six halls were there in 2017 seven halls were occupied again.
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| Model Mars colony
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The life of the first settlers on Mars as a model to reshape our way of life on earth for a lasting survival.
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