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Cool – Solar to Hydrogen to Electricity

February 25, 2007 · 0 comments

in AltEnergy

http://www.siei.org/mainpage.html
Guy decides to take his off the grid home off of its dependence on backup diesel generator (and because it would be a cool project)
Gets some friends together
Team ties together solar panels with Electrolyzer (to convert water into 0xygen and Hydrogen), store the hydrogen in a massive tank, and then fuel a fuel cell and [...]

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Cool – Cardboard house from BoingBoing

August 20, 2005 · 0 comments

in AltEnergy, Design

Found the following on BoingBoing:
The Cardboard House — roofed with HDPE plastic — is recycled, recyclable, flat-pack, home-assembled, and comes with a composting toilet and condenses its own water, which doubles as an under-house ballast tank to keep it from blowing over.
Very cool. Link to BoingBoing article here.
Link to the Houses of the Future site [...]

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