THCE Components

Posted by JohnP 12/21/2007 at 17:17

Total Home, Car Energy Components:

  1. Highly insulated home – being half buried in the side of a hill would really help with insulation. R-38 roof; R-21 walls ; Zero Energy Home is interesting.
  2. Efficient lighting and appliances
  3. Solar Panels (5kW for an average home) Boston, MA home
  4. Solar Power Controller (when all batteries and hydrogen tanks are full, push excess energy onto the electric grid for others
  5. Heat pump with ground source heating/cooling; sometimes called horizontal loop geothermal heat pump system
  6. Hydrogen Generation System – car and portable needs
  7. Power Inverter for AC power
  8. Hydrogen Storage System – a tankful for the car + 7 days worth for the household energy needs
  9. Electric/Hydrogen Car – ideally, most trips don’t touch any H2, just electric power is used.
  10. Car Power Charger