SeanBohan.com » AltEnergy http://www.seanbohan.com Entrepreneur, Founder, Renaissance Caveman, Heretic, Idea Guy, Crafter of Digital Stuff Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:24:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Cool – Solar to Hydrogen to Electricity http://www.seanbohan.com/2007/02/25/cool-solar-to-hydrogen-to-electricity/ http://www.seanbohan.com/2007/02/25/cool-solar-to-hydrogen-to-electricity/#comments Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:35:29 +0000 Sean http://www.seanbohan.com/2007/02/25/cool-solar-to-hydrogen-to-electricity/ 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 batteries to power the home for 14 days as a backup to the solar panels.

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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 here.

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