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Sunlight, Fuel Cells, and a 2020 'Snow Day'
The mobile dings gently. I groan but don't bother to pick it up. There's no one on the other end. It's 6am and the solar panel complaining; it's rearing to get cracking at another day of work but its covered in snow. If it detects anything less than 70% efficiency I don't hear the end of it. Have you ever tried negotiating with a solar panel? Doesn't go over well. Concepts like "snooze" and "another 10 minutes" aren't in its API.
I pull on my overalls and boots only half awake. Another storm came overnight and the weak pre-dawn light shows flurries. As everyone has figured out 'Climate Change' doesn't mean everybody gets Cancun sunshine. Instead, middle America has become epicenter for violent storms. In the summer time that means hail and tornadoes. Other times, like now when we'd normally be well on our way into spring, we're randomly bombarded by blizzards. Not ideal but, as far as the world goes, manageable.
I'm outside and scraping at the panel. It's an ultra portable model - not one of the permanent resident ones with built-in defrosters on a timer. Even cleared at mid-day the output will be well below possible capacity due to the clouds. With the snow continuing to fall I'll be lucky if I can get in an hour, hour-and-a-half between complaining dings. It doesn't bode well for my flow.
As long as I'm out here I grab the snow shovel and fill the chute that, during these months, takes the place of the rain barrel. Thankfully, collecting the water that rains on one's house is no longer illegal. I'd probably still use my Hydrofill fuel cell system if that wasn't the case - I'd just have to take greater care in hiding the tell-tale solar array. Sadly, there's enough countries with antiquated water-shed concepts that I have more experience with that then I'd like.
The melted snow is drained into a collection tank in the basement. That water then goes into the hydrofill. The hydrofill, using electricity from the solar array, separates the water into hydrogen - which is stored in a semi-solid state - and oxygen (which is released). By now the house is starting to wake up. Back inside I pop a couple of hydrogen cylinders into the burner as energy for lights and the microwave is about to be needed. Burning the hydrogen outputs water which is recycled back into the tank. It's a nice system - until the solar panel develops an attitude.
I grab my mobile, toggle to a book I had wanted to get to, and project it on the opposite wall before snuggling down in a blanket. I think I'll just take the day off and let the autoresponders, which have been refined with all the recent travel, handle client requests. With all the scraping I'll have to do I wouldn't get anything done anyway. Might as well call this snow day.
I pull on my overalls and boots only half awake. Another storm came overnight and the weak pre-dawn light shows flurries. As everyone has figured out 'Climate Change' doesn't mean everybody gets Cancun sunshine. Instead, middle America has become epicenter for violent storms. In the summer time that means hail and tornadoes. Other times, like now when we'd normally be well on our way into spring, we're randomly bombarded by blizzards. Not ideal but, as far as the world goes, manageable.
I'm outside and scraping at the panel. It's an ultra portable model - not one of the permanent resident ones with built-in defrosters on a timer. Even cleared at mid-day the output will be well below possible capacity due to the clouds. With the snow continuing to fall I'll be lucky if I can get in an hour, hour-and-a-half between complaining dings. It doesn't bode well for my flow.
As long as I'm out here I grab the snow shovel and fill the chute that, during these months, takes the place of the rain barrel. Thankfully, collecting the water that rains on one's house is no longer illegal. I'd probably still use my Hydrofill fuel cell system if that wasn't the case - I'd just have to take greater care in hiding the tell-tale solar array. Sadly, there's enough countries with antiquated water-shed concepts that I have more experience with that then I'd like.
The melted snow is drained into a collection tank in the basement. That water then goes into the hydrofill. The hydrofill, using electricity from the solar array, separates the water into hydrogen - which is stored in a semi-solid state - and oxygen (which is released). By now the house is starting to wake up. Back inside I pop a couple of hydrogen cylinders into the burner as energy for lights and the microwave is about to be needed. Burning the hydrogen outputs water which is recycled back into the tank. It's a nice system - until the solar panel develops an attitude.
I grab my mobile, toggle to a book I had wanted to get to, and project it on the opposite wall before snuggling down in a blanket. I think I'll just take the day off and let the autoresponders, which have been refined with all the recent travel, handle client requests. With all the scraping I'll have to do I wouldn't get anything done anyway. Might as well call this snow day.
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