This is the most integrated vision of an alternate energy fed community I’ve come across. It will use wind power to generate hydrogen, which will in turn be used in fuel cells to run engines and produce electricity.
What do you think?
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I think they haven't figured out any of the hurdles
that must be crossed before Hydrogen is anything more then W's
political ploy.
It's always fifteen years away and never gets any closer.
The demand is the problem. We are going to have to find ways to use less regardless of the power source.
I take a large reduction in consumption as a given in any foreseeable future.
What interests me in this and similar schemes are a couple of things:
I don't see them as blueprints but, as the name implies, utopian visions that are put forward whenever societies are going through periods of change or stress. There is a long history of movements putting forward their solutions from both ends of the political spectrum. - like the Futurists or Paulo Solari. I don't think most are meant to be built.
Something I notice that H2pia's houses share with many of the "green" modernist houses shown in Dwell Magazine is that they are designed so that their occupants perch above the ground - almost like they are spacecraft. I wonder if this represents some feeling that we have harmed nature too much and should just be observers now?
The other less abstract thing that was new to me anyway, is using the manufacture of hydrogen as a storage method for wind powered generators rather than batteries as is usually done. I don't understand enough about it to know if it makes sense as an idea.