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Solar-Hydrogen Eco-House
Cymage writes "An architect in Malaysia has built a Solar-Hydrogen Eco-house, the first in the world that is fully self-sustainable and runs entirely on hydrogen. The house has an electrolyser to generate hydrogen that runs off of solar panels, then that hydrogen is used for heat and electricity for the house. Pretty cool stuff. I wonder how long before a kit is ready to convert regular houses?"
I wonder how long it will be before this house explodes and it is blamed on Muslim terrorists?
fully self-sustainable
Interesting. This would mean the house has achieved perpetual motion and broken several laws of thermodynamics, including the conservation of energy.Asshat?
"...inspiration from traditional Malay architecture, which he says possesses a bio-climatic environment and is in harmony with nature."
I tell ya, nothing impresses the ladies like a good bio-climatic environment.
Oh wait, that's just more pretentious crap from eco-freaks. NEXT
REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.
Alternative energy sources suck ass, d00d!!!!
You are really roughing it, aren't you? That's okay... Bush and friends will buy the oil needed for your gluttony with the blood of US soldiers. Enjoy your sun lamp!
This is done using the most abundant energy source in the universe [and the atmosphere ;)], the SUN!
The sun is a relatively small star, so it's obviously not the source of the most abundant energy in the universe. It's not in "the atmosphere" either, I dont know what you're thinking there.
So why don't you just shut up? This chink put a lot of wok into his new house so dont be pissin on his parade, bitch.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
huh? do yourself a favour and go read something on the subject.
the coating was basically rocket fuel.
the 'disaster' wasn't THAT bad anyways(heck, there were even survivors and just 35 dead). what was a disaster was that it got sticked by the press and mass hysteria(heck, those magazines with pics of it must have sold quite well).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
This tired old discredited theory is STILL making the rounds?
You've got one crackpot scientist who's also a rabid hydrogen economy activist basically saying that ALL the investigators who looked into the disaster were ALL part of a secret conspiracy to hide the real reason for the explosion.
If you actually take time to read this guy's paper, you'll find he's nothing more than a conspiracy kook.
The Hindenberg went up because the hydrogen ignited. It wasn't the first time it happened. Goodyear had a very ugly hydrogren dirigible accident a few years previously. Killed a lot of people and destroyed a very large building right here in the US of A
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
Well, since it wasn't the paint that went up initially, your argument is bogus. EVERY investigator except this one crackpot scientist has concluded it was a hydrogen fire.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
Hey, you know, there's this really interesting thing about really hot flames. They'll catch other flammable objects on fire.
The people who investigated the Hindenburg accident in the months following were not idiots. They realized that hydrogen burns nearly invisible, too. They also realized that secondary fires would also start. They also realized that the aluminum paint would also ignite given the extremely high temperatures of the initial hydrogen fire. They also realized the fuel oil in the engines, and the metal in the framing, and the canvas tarping would likely ignite as well.
In fact, they looked at a whole hell of lot more evidence than you have and concluded a hydrogen fire. ALL of them. On multiple occasions. You have one nutball scientist out at NASA who is preaching it's all a coverup, though, because, you see, the aluminum paint was flammable at high temperatures, and so, you see, it was what really burned, because, you see, if it was the hydrogen, then he couldn't push his hydrogen economy agenda.
And a bunch of slashdot idiots, because they think it will make them somehow look intelligent and profound are swallowing it hook, line and sinker.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.