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Preparedness Takes Time: Why Resilience Is Built Over Decades
From military defense to energy and entrepreneurship, preparedness takes time. Long-term investment in preparedness beats short-term fixes.
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What Entrepreneurship and Climate Change Have in Common
Entrepreneurship and climate change share a burden: Too many urgent problems, too little time. Can you prioritize root causes over symptoms?
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Investment Metrics for Climate Change: Thoughts from an Engineer and Entrepreneur
Learn why investment metrics for climate change need to take into account bang-for-the-buck and a long-term perspective.
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How to Install a Rainwater Harvesting System in an Existing Home
Save thousands of liters of water per year by installing a rainwater harvesting system. A real-life guide to retrofitting your home.
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Does a Small Wind Turbine on Your Home Increase Self-Sufficiency?
Thinking about installing a wind turbine at home? Learn whether small wind turbines or an investment in a larger wind park make more sense.
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Want to Cut Your Electricity Bill? Downsize Your Electric Car
Irrespective if you produce your own solar energy or buy electricity from your local utility, the single best way to save electricity is to reduce the size of your car.
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My Vertical Solar Panels Increased Self-Sufficiency by 4 Percentage Points in November-January
Vertical panels are not just for mountain cabins, they work on all residential buildings. And yes, also in the darkest months of the year.
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Distributing Power Generation Solves Two Problems at One Go
Increase the use of renewables, decrease grid dependency
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How to Save Water, and With It Tons of Energy and Money
Start with simple and effective measures. You will be surprised about the benefits.
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How to Improve Your Solar Self-Sufficiency with Vertical Panels
Discover how vertical solar panels can improve winter performance and raise annual self-sufficiency from 70% to 80%.
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How to Build an Intelligent Car Charging Logic with Loxone
Optimize your electric vehicle charging using solar energy and a car charging logic with Loxone. Save costs and boost self-sufficiency.
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Why and How to Save Electricity in Summer Rather than in Winter
It doesn’t follow intuition, but it’s better than bunkering candles and talking about nuclear power stations
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Send Your Lawyers on Vacation If You Want to Enter New Territory
A bold geothermal energy project in Switzerland gives an excellent example of why you should send your lawyers on vacation from time to time.
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Why Narrow-Minded Thinking Fails in a Complex World
Forget the silver bullets, they don’t exist
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Saying Goodbye to 24/7 Industrial Production Will Help Us Solve the Energy Crisis
For some reason, homo sapiens tried to replace the natural phenomenon of seasonality with an on-demand, 24/7 society. How flawed is this?
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A Fictitious Review of the 2022 Energy Crisis, Seen from 2025
Cold flats, citizen solidarity, martial law, and the rise of decentralized power. That’s the fictitious review of the 2022 energy crisis.
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Making Climate Change Visible in Zermatt, Switzerland
Zermatt’s disappearing glaciers make climate change visible. Pay special attention on the water levels of the village river.
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Solar Self-Sufficiency: The Dollars Behind
Solar self-sufficiency for my home cost me 85k CHF and generated 40k CHF in savings and income. Read on to find out if it is worth it.
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Solar Self-Sufficiency: Optimizing Winter Car Charging Patterns for Geopolitics
Don’t charge your cars at night just because you can save a few cents on electricity.
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Solar Self-Sufficiency Is Feasible, Even in Moderate Climates
Solar self-sufficiency for modern single-family homes is feasible, even with electric cars in moderate climates such as Switzerland
