Energy Optimised Settlements – Enabler for Necessary Civilization Targets

Mösl, Roland (2025) Energy Optimised Settlements – Enabler for Necessary Civilization Targets. URBAN INNOVATION: TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO CITIES HAVE GONE BEFORE. Medium sized cities and towns as a major arena of global urbanisation. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2025, 30th Intl. Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 1105-1109. ISSN 2521-3938

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Abstract

“Net-zero-emission and all will be good again” is scientific not holdable. We need to target far beyond towards planet renovation back to 350 ppm CO2. This requires worldwide wealth. Worldwide wealth is only possible with great cost reductions for renewable energy and housing. Energy optimized settlements target this by synergy and cost optimized construction methods. “Net-zero-emission and all will be good again”: 2021 changed the balance of the Amazonas to more GHG emission than absorption. 2023 absorbed the land nearly no CO2. Time to reevaluate our strategies to deal with the climate change. 350 ppm CO2 is considered a stable climate situation, so we have to target reducing CO2 until we are back to 350 ppm CO2. We call this planet renovation. It requires about 47,000 TWh electricity to filter 1 ppm out of the atmosphere and split it into carbon and oxygen. Reducing the CO2 level in the atmosphere is complete different from reducing CO2 emissions and requires complete different strategies. The current strategy for reducing CO2 emissions is increasing energy prices, promoting reduce, restrict, renounce, stopping everything what could grow fast, holding great parts of humanity in poverty. This causes social unrest and strengthen the climate change deniers. The planet renovation strategy requires cheap renewable energy and the whole mankind to contribute. This means worldwide wealth and is the opposite of the current strategy. When 10 billion people contribute an average of 10,000 kWh/a we can reduce CO2 by 2 ppm per year. Hope that this is enough. GHG emissions from unfreezing permafrost could require even more. The GEMINI next Generation house and the energy optimized settlements targets to make renewable energy and housing cheap enough to enable worldwide wealth and the planet renovation.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	climate change, planet renovation, 350 ppm CO2, cheap energy, worldwide wealth.
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NA Architecture T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Depositing User:	The CORP Team
Date Deposited:	19 May 2025 15:03
Last Modified:	07 Jul 2025 10:27
URI:	http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/1177

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