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

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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.