using green power, or is that typically Dutch?

what car are you retrofitting? or are you doing a full build

whereabouts are you? are there hydrogen fuel stations near you?

Brazil, if I remember correctly?

also, fuel cell, not combustion, right?

patiently been waiting for my roof to decay enough to reroof, at which time I'm going Solar.

could do roof-integrated then

looks very cool, can be a bit harder to install (and a lot harder to replace panels if they break)

I've been looking at all kinds - the solar shingles as well as panels. Problem is there's incremental improvements every year

Makes me want to hold out that much longer

The other problem is I want to go full PV, and the battery systems are muy expensivo

what state?

that's interesting, timy, i don't know much about hydrogen combustion cars

i'm currently designing a motor that runs on gas plasma!!

bryanr - what state for me? MD.

gas plasma? don't you spend more energy generating and containing the plasma than if you just ran an electric motor?

hehehehe!!!

iyzie, maryland has net metering

so you don't need a battery backup unless you plan on going off grid

I want the backup for power outages, plus net metering, last I checked, only sums per month - I can't use summer credit to pay off winter.

there's a 12-month carry-over

www.dsireusa.org/library...

i like having a battery backup

for power outages of course

but... since it's just for emergencies, you're almost better off with a diesel generator

as un-green as that sounds

the extra money you'd spend on battery backup vs generator could go towards more solar panels

hey! Wow. That's decent news. That means I could hold off on a batt backup until the tech really matures.

The power outage backup is still something I'd like, but it's less essential

karlski has some top-secret way of generating gas plasma that he cannot talk about.

ThomasAD3 - the method is called "beer".

it involves chilli but I cant talk about it

Aha! Chilli *plus* beer.

needless to say with sufficient heat and gas volume steel sheet may be sliced

only one step from there to a practical personal transport alternative

Car needs a specially modified driver seat, I daresay.

hahahah

lol

cow's farts are contributing significantly to greenhouse gas levels

(not a joke)

Nope but with a bank that promotes and finance it

Yep, more than traffic, actually - the cows

i got a 2009 prius last month, does that count?

sure it does

at the time of the original post i was actually interested in talking investment-related stuff

but in general, glad to open it up for all discussion though