[All] A house for all seasons in a Chinese village: a partial application for Canada

[Robert Milligan]

The idea that I like the most here is the production of biogas (mostly  
methane) from waste which village-Chinese use in cooking, In Canada we  
could use food waste and human feces in an anaerobic toilet/digester  
-- external maintenance for safety reasons -- to produce methane which  
could be burned in our furnaces &/or collected by the gas company,  
etc. Eventually, a separate urine stream could produce hydrogen  
(patent on) as could the methane (new more efficient ways). These are  
a few small community steps towards a hydrogen economy. Further, as  
the house also produces geothermal heat and cooling, solar heat and  
electricity , roof micro-windmill electricity, ... -- with super- 
insulation to decrease energy demand -- a house could go beyond self- 
energy-sufficiency to being a net energy producer.
http://www.gizmag.com/chinese-rural-architecture-john-lin/23230/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=9ff10b4d67-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email

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