The House That Mike Built

In New Jersey, civil engineer Mike Strizki lives in a 3,500 SF house with his wife and all the extras like a hot tub and a big-screen TV.

Mike has also built the nation’s first solar-hydrogen house. “Mr. Strizki's monthly utility bill is zero – he's off the power grid – and his system creates no carbon-dioxide emissions. Neither does the fuel-cell car parked in his garage, which runs off the hydrogen his system creates.”

It took him 4 years to finish and cost $500,000, but strangely enough the NJ Board of Public Utilities gave him a grant of $250,000 for the project. Mike says that, now that it’s been proven to work, a little R&D and some innovative mass production of the parts can lower the cost to $50,000 per house.

This man deserves a Nobel Prize. His ideas, if they take hold, could slash our dependence on foreign oil, nuclear power plants, and in the end save our planet for a few more generations.