The way I understand it, the artificial photosynthesis mechanism will power hydrogen fuel cells. The technology for these is a bit lagging, but once it’s firm (within 5 years, I predict) this process will provide the fuel. Then the fuel cell(s) power the heat pump and household grid. It doesn’t have to be solar panels providing the juice for the mechanism, windmills or hydro turbines can work as well and provide juice 24 hours a day – which means you can direct-charge your electric vehicle too!

The big energy concerns (I have Duke) then have to buy back the excess juice once the fuel cells are fully charged and incoming gets switched back to the main grid. Green-generated electricity they then sell to private, municipal and industrial users who aren’t generating their own. That’s less coal and nuclear, no new plants, and a significant plus for the environment.

All of the pieces-parts (sans solar cells, at least through their lifetime to 80%) will need regular maintenance and/or replacement. That’ll cost money, which means somebody’s making money. Never worry too much about the Capitalist Spirit, it will find a way to reap the profits!

Working from home can be difficult, more for the workers than the boss in arranging the home life so actual work is being done instead of dishes, laundry, etc. But it IS doable. Makes the worker’s paycheck go farther without having to give a raise, lets the business maintain less office expense (considerable), etc. And once we have universal health care, American business won’t be in the unenviable position of having to carry the load and losing competitive ability in world markets.

Keep trying, it’s definitely worth it if you can save on transportation expense and fancy clothes. Working at home in your PJs is actually quite nice! Write up your proposal, list all the benefits to the boss, he might take it seriously.

Such technologies won’t see the light of day any time soon. For two simple reasons: -

1) Free energy (ZPE, Joe Cell, Stan Meyo, solar power, etc) are all viable technologies. How many have come to fruition? – none, they get bought out by the oil barons, or the inventor is simply eradicated.

As Edison said to Tesla when he invented free wireless electricity – this free energy device is all fair and well, but where do we place the meter?
It is all about money, greed, and oppression by the few who control the many. This leads me to point 2.

2) Politics – are we, as a race really ready for free/alternate energy devices? Perhaps society would collapse, millions become jobless, anarchy ensues?

Either way, it is time the people, not the Governments, to take back what is rightly ours – Our FREEDOM.

Regards
SolReka
Brighter Energy Solutions

people aren’t smart or concerned enough to push for this change. for example, i commute 30 miles to work (web, art, marketing, IT) and almost everything i do can be done anywhere in the world with a laptop, but i can’t work from home because my boss says ‘other employees may get jealous’ and ‘i don’t want the office to look empty’ meanwhile he’s on vacation, and my internet at home is 10x faster. by not commuting i save 5 gallons of gas a day, wear & tear on my car and i can work an extra 2 hours instead of driving in traffic, but none of that makes any sense when the office looks empty. stupid, stupid people.

There’s money to be had from the government for R&D, for deployment and installation, etc. Then there’s upkeep and replacement parts that’ll keep manufacturing facilities in business forever.

I realize they’ve tried really hard to prevent people from doing for themselves, but that business model isn’t really going to work if we’re serious about breaking our fossil fuels habit. Homes, communities, municipalities and businesses are going off-grid right now when they can (and have a mind and will to do so). Our grid is so antiquated right now it’s a single overload away from total failure, and that’s a very dangerous place to be national security (and public safety) speaking. We aren’t going to put the necessary money and work into rebuilding it, so there’s no sense corporate planning things that rely on it.

We have to be smart going into the future. We have the will, we have the genius, we have the desire to make it happen. If we don’t, we might as well hang it up right now – we’re terminally screwed!

So, “too cheap to meter” automatically condemns it. The only reason we are even hearing about this is because of the internet. And after the powers enact Net Neutrality legislation, there goes that means of communication.

Sorry, if you can’t centralize it to concentrate profits into the hands of the few, it just won’t see the light of day. This is America after all.