#27 Heating with ice - climate-saving building technology
Our interview with Klaus Schnepf, Founder and Managing Director of PG Schnepf which is one of the leading planning groups for energy technology. We interviewed him in Nagold on the 15th of June on the Climate Pioneer World Tour.
They do modern and innovative energy system: heating pump, solar, and wind.
They invented an ice bank machine.The cool water will be saved in winter and then made to ice after that you can use it to cool the house in summer. And of course you have the solar panels on the roof, which makes the house complete self-sufficient. If you want to know more, listen to this interview.
#26 Learning from sunflowers to improve solar use of land area
Manuel Ehnes is only 15 years old but already invented a solar solution. He thought that solar energy is great but solar plants take up too much space, so he invented a system where individual solar cells are arranged spirally around a rod, like steps of a spiral staircase or a sunflower. The solar cells don’t cover each other and save space.
#24 Making products from CO2 from the athmosphere
Watch our interview with Henri Beranek, head of communications at Carbonauten if you want to learn about how this company takes CO2 out of the air, extracts the carbon and turns it into affordable products.
Learn more about Carbonauten here: https://carbonauten.com
#23 Energy cooperative Liestal
Find our interview with Andreas Appenzeller, board member of ADEV, controlling special projects from the 21st day of the Climate Pioneer World Tour, in Liesthal, Switzerland.
You can learn more about great inventions in the sector in this video, such as bi-direction charging, your house can of course generate renewable energy and charge the car, but can you imagine that you could also get power from the car in case needed at night or anytime?? Listen to the interview to find out more.
ADEV develops and operates solar power plants, small hydropower plants, wind turbines as well as heating centers and local heating networks. Their innovative projects have shaped Switzerland’s sustainable energy supply for over thirty years. They own around 120 production plants, which together generate over 50 million kilowatt hours of energy every year.
To know more about ADEV: https://www.adev.ch/ueber-uns/
#22 Turning oldtimers into electric cars
Hugo Wermelinger in Ruswil, Switzerland has a passion for old timers but he doesn’t want to harm the planet, so he converted a Ford built in 1929 into an electric car. Anything is possible!
Louis Palmer interviewed him on the 20th day of the SolarButterfly Climate Pioneer World Tour.
#21 Solar autarky
Do you sometimes dream about never paying energy bills at home again? I yes, don’t miss Loic Viret’s interview that was recorded on the 18th day of the SolarButterfly Climate Pioneer World Tour.
Many of us want to be energy-independent and live off our solar panels on the roof. Loic Viret, the CEO of Studer Innotec is one of those people that work hard for this universal dream to become true!
Studer Innotec is a Swiss company that develops and manufactures inverters, inverter/chargers that can make homes 85% off the grid, including charging electric cars! Most technologies can achieve 30-40%! The dream of living completely off our #solarpanels is not that far away! And the #SolarButterfly is also equipped with their inverter to make the most of our great solar panels.
To know more about Studer Innotec: https://www.studer-innotec.com/en/
#9 Energy goals of canton Ticino
Louis Palmer interviewed Michele Fasciana, the Head of Office for Air, Climate and Renewable Energy in Ticino Canton, Switzerland.
He talked about how Ticino improves their ways to use renewable energy and to save energy in general. Listen to our interview!
#20 Solar windows
Interview with Rubén Roldán Molinero, CEO and co-founder of iWin. iWin is a Swiss company that produces photovoltaic windows, turning multi-story buildings into solar power plants.
A façade is no longer only a passive element ensuring waterproofing, insulation and ventilation, but also an active surface, able to produce renewable energy to reach the nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEBs) premises.
To know more about iWin: https://iwin.ch The video was recorded in the SolarButterfly, a solar powered tiny home and video studio, in Ticino, on the Mendrisio event of the Climate Pioneer World Tour. Follow our climate tour to find out about other great innovations that contribute to stopping climate change.
#19 Timber houses
Louis Palmer interviewed James Cristallo, Headmaster for timber building and energy at IBW buildingszentrum wald. They are teaching how to build houses with wood and what are the benefits.
#18 Folding solar roofs
On the 14th day of the SolarButterfly Climate Pioneer World Tour, Louis Palmer interviewed Peter Kasper, the CEO of DHP in our solar-powered mobile video studio. This company produces solar folding roofs which you can put over waste water or parking spots or any other places where you want to double the usability of your area.
Peter Kasper said, “if you have a bigger area where you produce something or that you use for basically anything, you can get our folding roof to produce energy on that exact same place. The good thing about our system is that it is very light and it keeps the open space, you can keep using the space underneath however you like.”
Know more about DHP and their technology here: https://dhp-technology.ch/en/homepage/