Nearly 10 years after the first concept, the first examination by the inventor Roland Mösl. First impressions of the inhabited solar power plant.
| Photo of solar house - styria country exhibition
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Look as fresh from a SF SciFi Science Fiction film however, was planned in order to help to solve concrete energy problems on the planet earth.
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| Livingroom as lecture hall during the exhibition
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The round livingroom with the integrated furniture concept serves as lecture hall during the styria country exhibition about energy.
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| First floor with 2 room in semicircle form
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The windows are room high. The balcony balustrade is very hardly to see out of turned glass. Before, a part of the photovoltaics plant.
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| Turnable solar equipment on the GEMINI house
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A hot summer day with the huge windows always turned to the sun? No, to hot. To solve the problem, the solar equipment can turn independent from the house.
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| Plus energy house GEMINI Austria Styria Weiz 2001
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Photos from the main attraction of the styrian country exhibition about energy: a turnable turned after the sun zylinder styled house GEMINI
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| Austria Styria Weiz 2001: GEMINI inhabited solar power plant
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Photos from the turnable house turning after the sun to increase the yield of the solar power plant on the roof during the styria country exhibition.
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| Styria exhibition for energy - Weiz - GEMINI solar power plant
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The GEMINI house is open until 28. October 2001: Monday to friday 11am - 1pm, 2pm - 6 pm, Saturday 11am - 6pm,
Sunday 10am - 6pm
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| GEMINI inhabited solar power plant: guided tour
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She will tell You during the guided tour about technic, targets and backgrounds of the house, which is at the same time a solar power plant
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| Sponsors for a solar energy project
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A house of the future from 2091: 1991 designed and 2001 finished. A vision about living in the age of solar energy supported by many future-oriented companies.
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| Heat recovery from outgoing air
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The warm outgoing air gives the biggest part of the heat energy to the cold incoming air. Even necessary for low energy houses. With plus energy houses a must.
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| Sound absorber of the ventilating system
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Huge sound absorbers at the ventilating system guarantee living comfort. Energy saving which does not influence the comfort.
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| Gear drive with wheels to turn the house
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2 of such gearmotors for turning the house are installed in the preproduction model. Tests yielded that one would completely have been sufficient.
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| Turnable house: always after the sun
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From firm basement photographed up to the rotatable part: Exhaust, supply air and waste water are feeded into the center of the rotatable house.
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| Cable transfer to the rotateable house
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All utility lines of the firm basement are transferred to the rotatable house here. Electric power, water and from the
central vacuum cleaner
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| Central vacuum cleaner in the basement
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No exhaust air from the vacuum cleaner in the house, because the central vacuum cleaner is in the basement. Much less noise and more comfort.
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