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Cactuar Zone => Random lnsanity => Topic started by: ZPO4O on June 20, 2009, 10:09:19 pm

Title: Im not a tree huggin hippy damn it!
Post by: ZPO4O on June 20, 2009, 10:09:19 pm

but I do want to go off the grid.

I see going off the grid as a challenge, not as something I need/should do...

<_<

I just think it would be totally badass to be off the grid...that does NOT make me a tree huggin hippy though.

>_>

Title: Im not a tree huggin hippy damn it!
Post by: Thunder Strike on June 20, 2009, 10:25:36 pm

Something wrong with tree hugging hippees?

Title: Im not a tree huggin hippy damn it!
Post by: KingRanter on June 20, 2009, 10:27:19 pm

COME ON ONE MORE POST ZEEP! DO IT! REACH 1000!

Title: Im not a tree huggin hippy damn it!
Post by: ZPO4O on June 20, 2009, 10:40:15 pm

Your whats wrong with a tree huggin hippie!!!

<_<


and yay!!! 1000!

Title: Im not a tree huggin hippy damn it!
Post by: Jenne on June 20, 2009, 10:40:21 pm

That would be very cool.  You thinking fuel cell, or something new?

Title: Im not a tree huggin hippy damn it!
Post by: ZPO4O on June 20, 2009, 10:47:01 pm

I was thinkin a combination of any and all...

wind, solar, geo, hydro... generators to store and save. possibly a ground well as well. Obviously a very costly and long time consuming process, but the end goal is still the same. The main goal would be to just get off the energy grid. But going full fledged off grid with the added bonus of water would be amazingly "oh my god cream in my pants" satisfying.

Title: Im not a tree huggin hippy damn it!
Post by: Jenne on June 20, 2009, 11:02:30 pm

I did a Co-Op for a company that was developing residential fuel cells.  Seemed like it had potential.  They are still around, but they are mostly looking at the automotive side now.  Not sure how keen I would be on having a hydrogen tank sitting in the back yard.  They ran on methane too, just not as well.  

They had to do a disaster analysis to see what the potential worst case for a failure at the facility could be.  They had huge tanks of hydrogen to run the test labs.  They figured that if one of those tanks blew, it could potentially blow big enough to ignite the jet fuel storage at the airport a few miles down the road.