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Title: Meet the Joule Box- a Portable Hydrogen Power Station
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Hydrogen House Project/Mike Strizki
URL Source: http://hydrogenhouseproject.org/jou ... x-portable-charge-station.html
Published: Nov 1, 2013
Author: Mike Strizki
Post Date: 2015-04-10 11:40:52 by Operation 40
Keywords: Hydrogen, renewable, Energy
Views: 6628
Comments: 11
Hydrogen House Project presents the Joule Box Hydrogen Charge Station. This portable power plant stores renewable wind and solar energy as hydrogen gas providing back-up power for homes and businesses, while also serving as a refueling station for electric and hydrogen vehicles. Hydrogen Fuel Cells Could Add Year-Round Reliability to Renewable Energy Mike Strizki's 'Hydrogen House' weathers superstorm Sandy with lights blazing and plenty of hot water Since 2006, Mike Strizki has been living off the grid, generating all the electricity he needs for his 3,000 square-foot house from solar panels, and drawing on energy stored in hydrogen and converted by fuel cells when there isn’t enough sun power to meet his domestic demand. He has around 100 solar panels mounted on rooftops, patches of ground, and mobile appliances dotted around his 12-acre compound in the woods near Hopewell, and has 11 hydrogen tanks to store excess energy for use during the sun-starved winter months. The Hydrogen House, which Strizki says is the only one of its kind in the western hemisphere, is intended to demonstrate that solar power can be an infinitely available, emissions-free, year-round source of energy that isn’t limited by weather, as is often claimed by critics of renewable fuels. If widely applied, the technology could make deep cuts in carbon emissions while ensuring individual energy security, cutting oil imports, and perhaps even reducing planetary exposure to the environmental havoc that comes from burning fossil fuels, Strizki said...snip The “Joule Box”, 16 feet high including its solar panel, and occupying a footprint of about three feet by four feet, generates 4 kilowatts -- enough to power regular domestic appliances such as heaters, refrigerators, and sump pumps, although not energy-guzzlers like central air conditioning, clothes dryers, or hot tubs...snip Brought to you by Solar Hydrogen Pioneer Mike Strizki, who was featured in a 2008 Scientific American article called "Inside the Solar Hydrogen House" Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever EAST AMWELL, N.J.—Mike Strizki has not paid an electric, oil or gas bill—nor has he spent a nickel to fill up his Mercury Sable—in 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. ..."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."..snip
http://hydrogenhouseproject.org/joule-box-portable-charge-station.html
NJ Spotlight | Jon Hurdle | April 3, 2013
MORE: http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/13/04/02/hydrogen-fuel-cells-could-add-year-round-reliability-to-renewable-energy/
A New Jersey resident generates and stores all the power he needs with solar panels and hydrogen
Scientific American | June 19, 2008 |By David Biello 
MORE: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-house/
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#3. To: Operation 40, TooConservative (#0)
But at a typical cost of $60,000 to $90,000 after rebates and tax credits, the equipment that powers the house is beyond the reach of the average homeowner, even if he or she has the space to fit a dozen hydrogen tanks in the backyard. Critics have said the Hydrogen House is a utopian project that’s unlikely ever to be widely replicated. [...] The Joule Box price starts at $30,000 and goes to $75,000 for a fully loaded model that includes solar panels, wind turbine, and water-purification plant. The device also includes a meter to measure the power generated that will qualify for solar renewable energy certificates (SRECs). Strizki makes the Joule Box himself, and customers have to buy it directly from him. He's looking for investors to back a manufacturing facility. Although the price tag is still significant, it’s a lot less than it would have been a decade ago, thanks largely to a plunge in solar-panel prices which have dropped from $10 a watt in 2004 to 60 cents a watt now, Strizki said.
This article doesn't tell you about the millions of dollars worth of free top-notch tech he's gotten by begging it off various manufacturers. Why the alt energy people think it's relevant to prattle on about this guy as though anyone else could do it shows just how gullible they are. I'd like to see Willie or Op40 go buy this stuff off the shelf. They'd quickly find it costs hundreds of thousands.
You can't install those in a $2M 1994 Mercury Sable.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest If widely applied, the technology could make deep cuts in carbon emissions while ensuring individual energy security, cutting oil imports, and perhaps even reducing planetary exposure to the environmental havoc that comes from burning fossil fuels, Strizki said.
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#5. To: TooConservative (#4)
I'm holding out for the flux capacitor .
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