Tuesday, 08 April 2008
Investing in Energy Saving: Home Power Generation
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Looking backwards while moving forwards is the way I like to think of the home power station.
Here's an example
A brief tour of a Canadian off-grid house and its technology.
No more than a few hundred years ago, almost all energy would have been generated at the place of use - home, factory, school etc. In the 20th century, economies of scale and poor technology demanded centralisation. In the 21st centry we can look back to the model and apply modern technology to make generating energy at the point of use cheaper and easier.
20 years?
I truly envisage this as the normal home in as little as 20 years. Imagine - no wires, no pilons, no cooling towers, no electricity bill, no gas bill. No pollution!
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