Mike Strizki’s Solar+Hydrogen House

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This guy is living my future, now. According to this article, in the summer, he collects about nine times the solar power that he needs for his house using solar panels on his roof. The extra goes into batteries for nighttime, and… here’s the best part… conversion of water to hydrogen fuel using an electrolyzer. He stores it up in 10 propane tanks and uses it for all his additional energy needs.

Hurry up and get here, future! Scale this shit up, people! :>

Keep an eye on Craig Venter

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I’m spending a little time on a side project involving blogs and their RSS feeds. I’ve posted before (in 2005!) about unplugging from the endless evil RSS feeds of the hyperactive interwebs, and I stepped too close again and got sucked back in…

Some of the interesting fodder I’ve dug up on this last trip (with a tip of the hat to Andrea for finding a related Newsweek article)…

The interwebs is DEEP these days… :P …now give me my life back!

Drowning in good times here!

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Can’t keep up…

  • The patio has been a hit! We now have chairs, plants, a picnic table and solar lights!
  • I tuned up the bikes and we all went for a great ride on the American Tobacco Trail.
  • Andrea had a big birthday! Gorilla suits were involved, I’ll say no more…
  • We bought a beautiful horse! Welcome to the family Sundance!
  • I biked to work every day this week… 170 miles…
  • Rei had a sleepover for her 12th birthday, crazy fun.
  • I’m working on some fun side projects… more to come…

Another packed weekend

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Since Reiley’s birthday was on Mother’s day this year, a deal was brokered to move Mother’s Day to Saturday and let Rei have Sunday all to herself. The following ensued: flowers and cards, plants, woodburned spoons, spring-cleaned garage (everything must go!), Mellow Mushroom, tetherball championships, Carcasonne marathons, we got Mom and Grammy to play AoE3 with us (Mom fell asleep), PF Chang’s, pocketknife, Clue!

I’m not going to hold up much longer!

emptied what a mess