House of the Future Flexes Its Off-Grid Muscle

It’s the self-sustaining home of the future, on steroids. And all along you thought going green was for design challenged weenies?

The zeroHouse by Scott Specht is futuristic architecture that laughs in the face of ‘the man.’ This setup is made to work completely off the grid. It generates all of it’s own power by means of high-efficiency solar panels. When skies are looking gray, fully charged onboard batteries fuel it continuously for up to a week.

Rainwater is collected in a 2700 gallon reservoir and all plumbing is gravity-fed for extra efficiency. Water that’s being flushed is converted into dry compost underneath to be removed only twice each year.

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