Renewable energy leader presents The Hydrogen House Project, Feb. 21 in Bernardsville NJ

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Renewable energy leader presents The Hydrogen House Project, Feb. 21 at Scherman Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuary in Bernardsville
The Messenger-Gazette February 10, 2015

Renewable Energy Leader Presents The Hydrogen House Project at Scherman Hoffman
An in-depth look at this model home and the benefits of a clean, infinite and renewable fuel


Civil engineer Mike Strizki has lined the roof of his garage with 56 photovoltaic panels to harvest the free and abundant energy of the sun--even in New Jersey

Are you curious about renewable energy? Would you like to learn all the ins and outs on how to make a home sustainable to go off the grid without losing any modern conveniences? Come to a presentation, by Mike Strizki, founder of The Hydrogen House Project, on Saturday, Feb. 21, from 1-2 p.m., at Scherman Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuary, 11 Hardscrabble Road, Bernardsville. Cost is free for members and $5 for nonmembers.

Strizki will discuss the technology and process of how he converted his traditional home into a home that runs on solar hydrogen power, while keeping all the comforts of any grid powered home. This can be done without having to forfeit a modern kitchen, laundry, appliances, bathroom, multi-media/entertainment equipment, hot tub, and swimming pool, and more, even a lawnmower, car, and boat. This technology is real and ready to be implemented immediately.

The Hydrogen House, located in Hopewell, was developed by Mike Strizki with a grant from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities and his own personal funds...
http://www.nj.com/messenger-gazette/index.ssf/2015/02/renewable_energy_leader_presents_the_hydrogen_house_project_feb_21_at_scherman_hoffman_wildlife_sanc.html

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Mike Strizki was featured in Scientific American in 2008. So it's been working for Strizki for over 7 years. He's a hands on expert.

Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever
A New Jersey resident generates and stores all the power he needs with solar panels and hydrogen
June 19, 2008 |By David Biello | Scientific American

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...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-house/

Short version:

http://www.hydrogenhouseproject.org/

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1. Where are the H2 bashers?

Can't argue with success (or Scientific American?), so ignore.
Works for much of the US.

If a H2 basher can't take a few minutes to watch someone that has made Solar Hydrogen work for a number of years, they aren't worth listening to. It's that simple.

Bash away!

And for good measure:

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2. "even with today's skyrocketing oil and gas prices"?

Although the device cost $500,000 to construct, and it is unlikely it will ever pay off financially (even with today's skyrocketing oil and gas prices)...

The SciAm article is from 2008, is there any more recent information?

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3. Hey look! A millionaire could afford an H2 system! Stop the presses!

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-house/

Although the device cost $500,000 to construct, and it is unlikely it will ever pay off financially (even with today's skyrocketing oil and gas prices), the civil engineer says it is priceless in terms of what it does buy: freedom from ever paying another heating or electric bill, not to mention keeping a lid on pollution, because water is its only by-product.

But it's worth it, because when you go green, you just can't skimp on the bare necessities:

This can be done without having to forfeit a modern kitchen, laundry, appliances, bathroom, multi-media/entertainment equipment, hot tub, and swimming pool, and more, even a lawnmower, car, and boat. This technology is real and ready to be implemented immediately.

Yes! Ready to be implemented immediately (so long as you immediately have a few hundred thousand sitting in the bank you aren't currently using).

And you don't have to make any sacrifices! Heaven forbid we have to go back to the Stone Age and sacrifice our hot tubs! Or $4000 zero-turn riding lawnmowers for our huge, manicured yards! Or our swimming pools! Oh God, not the pools!

If I had as many solar panels on my property as Mr. Strizki, I'd be utility-free AND selling electricity back to the grid. But then again, I'm comfortable in my 1500-sq. ft home, with low utility demands, a wood stove, a ton of insulation, passive solar gain, a yard largely converted to permaculture, food forestry and gardens, and no big truck and boat parked in back for weekly cruises on the lake.

But clearly I'm not living the "right" kind of life.