[I do however love my day job and think I am one of the luckiest persons in the world to be doing what I do, so I deserve no sympathy. This just means I need your help because I don't have much spare time and I am not drowning in money]
Bringing a new technology into the market is extraordinarily hard work. I have been working on my last idea for the last decade! My day job has nothing to do with solar energy, or energy, or home heating, or plastics. In other words, this idea could turn out to be stupid for reasons I cannot see simply because I don't have the experience to know better. Good ideas, however, usually come from outside the establishment for the precise reason that the inventor does not know what is impossible and sees things a bit differently.
If this is a good idea, my hope is that the world out there (this means you!) will recognize it, think about it a little more, talk about it with your friends and perhaps even tinker with a prototype of your own. If there is a reason why this will not work, please let me (and everybody else) know why. We need solutions, not hype.
If you would do me the honor, make this your problem. Why? Because if we can do this, millions of homes in the US and potentially billions of homes across the world could finally really afford green energy. If that does not motivate you, just think about the prospects of reducing your heating or cooling bill by 80% with something that can be built on your kitchen table in an afternoon with mail-order plastic sheets, foam, plastic cement and a few tables spoons of coal slag.
I hope this blog will get big over time and document the whole process, from inception to production, and everybody out there can read about and even participate in the process. Green energy is about all of us living together sustainably, and this will never happen until we put our minds together and figure it out. I have planted a seed. Help me grow it.
