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This is our Solar House
A house completely self-sufficient on solar energy
These are the solar panels and they capture the sunlight and convert the
energy from the sun into electricity
The electricity can be used for all appliances in the house
Usually at day time, you absorb more energy than you can use and so we need to store that
The way we’ve developed to store that, is to use this excess energy
to convert
CO2 from the air
into methanol
The methanol can then safely being stored
And when we need
the additional energy for instance at night time,
than we can start converting the methanol back into electricity
You can also generate an excess of methanol,
which you can for instance blend into the gasoline of your car
I would like to tell you something about the technical details of our Solar House
The Solar House contains various elements
to convert the electricity from the sunlight
into methanol,
which is a liquid energy carrier
The various elements include
the production of electricity,
the collection of CO2,
and the conversion of CO2 into methanol
A very important element is the collection of CO2
We have devised a system,
which we want to proof
in practice
In fact what we want to do is to proof all the elements which we need
to convert the solar energy
into methanol in a pilot plant
We have devised the pilot plant by now,
and what we want to do,
is with the money we collect,
to build a first prototype
and that prototype
is a model for our Solar House