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Solar Power Eliminates Utility Bills in U.S. Home
skyhawker writes "Yahoo! News is running an article about a New Jersey home that uses solar power to provide 100% of its energy needs, including fuel for the owner's hydrogen fuel cell-powered automobile. From the article: 'Strizki runs the 3,000-square-foot house with electricity generated by a 1,000-square-foot roof full of photovoltaic cells on a nearby building, an electrolyzer that uses the solar power to generate hydrogen from water, and a number of hydrogen tanks that store the gas until it is needed by the fuel cell. In the summer, the solar panels generate 60 percent more electricity than the super-insulated house needs. The excess is stored in the form of hydrogen which is used in the winter -- when the solar panels can't meet all the domestic demand -- to make electricity in the fuel cell.'"
If there was HIAA, they'd slap "heat-theft" tax on every solar panel, then they would slap monthly tax on the heat that you're not buying from them, but they need to survive as a corporation for the good of other homeowners who happen to buy their heat from HIAA, blame foreign solar panel smuggling for lack of profits... wait. Maybe this WILL happen? In the global pursuit of corporate greed, I just don't see a way that houses coudl some day be self-sustaining when it comes to heating, electricity and solar power. Somehow the corporate greed will snatch this out of the people's hands.
... or loaded up my own backyard with hydrogen tanks.
Until there is a safe technology to store massive amounts of hydrogen, I'd stay away from all this.
This get's modded insightful? How long since there's been a draft? A war for petroleum? Sheesh can't you guys smell a troll anymore?
Welcome to America, where we will continue to screw the environment until it's cheaper not to do it, and God forbids you spend money to try and save the planet if there's no way to make money off of it. In God we trust.
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The only reason Iran and Syria don't overwhelm Israel is because they would surely be destroyed by Israel's nuclear weapons. The reason Iran and Syria would want nuclear weapons is not so they can immediately launch them at Israel, but so that they can create a situation of mutually assured destruction and then wage conventional warfare (which they have much better odds of winning).
Please, tell me where you got the crack you're smoking.
First of all, Iran does not want Israel to exist, but half of the world don't want USA to exist. So what? Did someone launch a nuke to destroy you? Later, a conventional warfare cannot happen if nukes exist on both sides, because the looser will launch them in the prospect of losing. Therefore, Iran (I don't know about Syria) wants them for their own protection, so Israel would not start another week war, escalate the middle-east problem (them) just for the sake of it. And last, Israel with proven no nukes will likely not be attacked with conventional weapons. Anyway, why do you protect a country based on terror against the native palestinians?