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Showing Original Post only (View all)ScientificAmerican: Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever [With Update] [View all]
Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--EverA New Jersey resident generates and stores all the power he needs with solar panels and hydrogen
Jun 19, 2008 By David Biello ScientificAmerican.com
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-house/
EAST AMWELL, N.J.Mike Strizki has not paid an electric, oil or gas billnor has he spent a nickel to fill up his Mercury Sablein nearly two years. Instead, the 51-year-old civil engineer makes all the fuel he needs using a system he built in the capacious garage of his home, which employs photovoltaic (PV) panels to turn sunlight into electricity that is harnessed in turn to extract hydrogen from tap water.
Although the device cost $500,000 to construct, and it is unlikely it will ever pay off financially (even with today's skyrocketing oil and gas prices), the civil engineer says it is priceless in terms of what it does buy: freedom from ever paying another heating or electric bill, not to mention keeping a lid on pollution, because water is its only by-product.
Slide Show: Photos show what makes this house work
"The ability to make your own fuel is priceless," says the man known as "Mr. Gadget" to his friends. He boasts a collection of hydrogen-powered and electric vehicles, including a hydrogen-run lawn mower and car (the Sable, which he redesigned and named the "Genesis" as well as an electric racing boat, and even an electric motorcycle. "All the technology is off-the-shelf. All I'm doing is putting them together."...
...The Strizki's personalized home-energy system consists of 56 solar panels on his garage roof, and housed inside is a small electrolyzer (a device, about the size of a washing machine, that uses electricity to break down water into its component hydrogen and oxygen). There are 100 batteries for nighttime power needs along the garage's inside wall; just outside are ten propane tanks (leftovers from the 1970s that are capable of storing 19,000 cubic feet, or 538 cubic meters, of hydrogen) as well as a Plug Power fuel cell stack (an electrochemical device that mixes hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity and water) and a hydrogen refueling kit for the car...
MORE: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-house/
Storing Hydrogen in propane tanks
Although the device cost $500,000 to construct, and it is unlikely it will ever pay off financially (even with today's skyrocketing oil and gas prices), the civil engineer says it is priceless in terms of what it does buy: freedom from ever paying another heating or electric bill, not to mention keeping a lid on pollution, because water is its only by-product.
Slide Show: Photos show what makes this house work
"The ability to make your own fuel is priceless," says the man known as "Mr. Gadget" to his friends. He boasts a collection of hydrogen-powered and electric vehicles, including a hydrogen-run lawn mower and car (the Sable, which he redesigned and named the "Genesis" as well as an electric racing boat, and even an electric motorcycle. "All the technology is off-the-shelf. All I'm doing is putting them together."...
...The Strizki's personalized home-energy system consists of 56 solar panels on his garage roof, and housed inside is a small electrolyzer (a device, about the size of a washing machine, that uses electricity to break down water into its component hydrogen and oxygen). There are 100 batteries for nighttime power needs along the garage's inside wall; just outside are ten propane tanks (leftovers from the 1970s that are capable of storing 19,000 cubic feet, or 538 cubic meters, of hydrogen) as well as a Plug Power fuel cell stack (an electrochemical device that mixes hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity and water) and a hydrogen refueling kit for the car...
MORE: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-house/
Storing Hydrogen in propane tanks
UPDATE (2013):
Watch this and know more about Hydrogen than almost everyone else alive today
Hydrogen House Strizki & Kids 4 Hydrogen
Published on Apr 18, 2013
Hydrogen House project
http://hydrogenhouseproject.org/index.html
Mike Strizki hydrogen powered electric hybrid car with hydrogen oxygen fuelcell
Uploaded on Oct 14, 2010
"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that." -Thomas Edison
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ScientificAmerican: Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever [With Update] [View all]
solarhydrocan
Feb 2014
OP
If this is the answer, then there is something seriously wrong with the question.
hunter
Feb 2014
#10