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Is The Future Of Power Production Your Home?

By Roelof Reineman
Friday, January 13th, 2012

Can you power your car with power from your house? If you have an electric vehicle you can probably plug it in to recharge.

But can you recharge your car with power that is generated by your house?

In Berlin this will be a trial, sponsored by BMW, Mercedes, Volkswagen and Audi. A family of four will live in an energy producing home which produces enough power to juice up their sponsored electric vehicle.

Now energy-producing structures are not that uncommon, not taking the traditional power plants into consideration.

Here in the Netherlands a lot of farmers using greenhouses to grow tomatoes are becoming net producers of energy. A similar case is found with waste water treatment facilities, which clean and purify water and use the extracted waste/biomass as an alternative source of fuel. Not only can the entire facility be operated on the energy that is generated, it also becomes a net producer.

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Editor's Note: From solar and wind to geothermal and biofuels, Green Chip readers want to know which renewable energy resource will take over where fossil fuels leave off. The answer is...all of the above!

There is no one single solution to today's energy crisis. However, the combination of all viable renewable energy resources, coupled with energy efficiency, conservation and smart grid development will not only lead us to energy independence and a cleaner, more sustainable energy infrastructure — but also to what will soon prove to be the greatest investment opportunity of the 21st Century.







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