news.yahoo.com — EAST AMWELL, N.J. - Mike Strizki lives in the nation's first solar-hydrogen house. The technology this civil engineer has been able to string together – solar panels, a hydrogen fuel cell, storage tanks, and a piece of equipment called an electrolyzer – provides electricity to his home year-round, even on the cloudiest of winter days.
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jackman3Mar 17, 2007
Awesome article. I'll repost it in a month or so to keep up with the Digg repost tradition. Thanks!!
docbossMar 17, 2007
well it doesn't create any o2 since any o2 he creates is turned back into water when he burns the hyrdogen
overtokeMar 17, 2007
many of you commented about the $500,000 price tag. he did get a grant (free money) that paid for half of that. is $250,000 still too much to pay for a responsible system?
overtokeMar 17, 2007
@jpop: the only thing mythbusters proved is that they do a poor job experimenting. put yourself in a pure hydrogen environment and create a spark. nothing happens! the hindenburg skin was absolutely flammable, you can see it burning at a high rate in the videos. sure the hydrogen burned, but it burned above the ship and only inside the open cavity of the ship after the skin burned away like a fuse. the burning skin is what caused the ship to be consumed in such a devastating way. if the skin was not as flammable, the hydrogen would have burned as it escaped thru a possible leak, and the flames would be completely outside the ship (where the oxygen is.)@docboss: gasoline contains oxygen. it's manufactured that way. it is also corrosive and highly toxic.
hillsfarMar 18, 2007
Gotcha. OK.
salgatMar 19, 2007
Interesting.
cortlandjimMar 19, 2007
Not exactly what I was getting at, but if all you think of is being screwed in the ass, continue your ways and the man will be happy to bend you over.
aardvarkempireMar 19, 2007
kragg: "So. What does hydrogen do when it leaks?"Answer: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hindenburg_burning.jpg">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hindenburg_burning.jpg</a>
charlescheeseMar 19, 2007
Yay no energy bill!...Holy s**t, I just spent twice the value of my home to accomplish it!That may be nice for super rich people, but come it's not practical now, and it never will be. If they can get solar panels cheap enough, that would go a long way. However, if it doesn't make immediate economic sense, this stuff will NEVER...EVER catch on. Never. This stuff has to SAVE people money, not cost them 2x the value of their home. Hell, Al Gore is rich, and even he uses $24000 worth of gas and electricity per year. He's got to have that heated swimming pool, don't you know.
tfsherryNov 25, 2007
its dead
nkthenFeb 26, 2008
Kudos to this person! We should have more of this guy around!<a class="user" href="http://www.mysolarenergyathome.com">http://www.mysolarenergyathome.com</a>
Closed AccountAug 27, 2008
Ultimately the cost will come down significantly as new technologies are developed.<a class="user" href="http://www.tn-labs.com/technology.html">http://www.tn-labs.com/technology.html</a>
crazypaullMar 7, 2009
interesting, looks like solar technology gets more and more efficientfor those who wants to build solar system at home, read this first: <a class="user" href="http://www.diysolarpowersystem.com/homemadesolarpanel.php?tid=dig" rel="nofollow">http://www.diysolarpowersystem.com/homemadesolarpa ...</a>
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