Mike Stritzki is an engineer and a champion of solar-hydrogen energy. With the support of government grants and about $100,000 of his own money, he designed and built a sytem that generates electricity from solar panels, converts that electricity to hydrogen, then stores the hydrogen for use on demand to heat and air condition his home as well as provide all its electricity needs.
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| Mike Stritzki |
Mike has also converted two cars to run on hydrogen that he produces with his home energy system.
What Mike Stritzki has done is a reflection of the way most people may be living by mid-century. An enormous amount of work is being done to refine the technologies integrated into Mike Stritzki's house. It cost about $500,000 to get the Hopewell Project up and running. As the technologies evolve and begin to be mass produced, the cost will drop to a fraction of current levels. In fact, it's likely that home solar-hydrogen energy systems will actually feed surplus electricity produced into the power grid, creating a revenue stream for the home owner.
A future with people living in homes that produce enough clean energy to meet all their own needs and then some also means a future with rapidly declining levels of greenhouse climate change pollution going into our Earth's atmosphere. Bottom line: A transition to clean energy homes like the colonial Mike Stritzki lives in with his wife and three kids in Hunterdon, New Jersey is something everyone can get excited about..
Here is a link to a video of Mike Stritzki showing off his Hopewell Project.
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