Carbon-Neutral Home 'Would be Exempt from Utility Bills'

Looks like the Unabomber's (Ted Kaczynski's) shack!

It doesn't look very homey.

Why build on such a small scale? Wouldn't it be a more exciting accomplishment if he would have built this project a little more realistically. He should try to accomplish this with a two bedroom one bath home. I bet it would be a little more difficult to do with all the extra square feet of air to cool or heat not to mention to mention to sustain say a family of three. You know with the TV's, washer and dryer, fridge, gaming systems and every other electrical appliance a normal family would have. It doesn't look to me like all of this would fit in such a tiny little shack such as the one he built.

At £50,000 for a 3m cube I doubt you or 99% of the people on Earth could afford a larger home. That doesn't include the lot, either.

You could buy a very nice carbon-positve motorhome for £50,000.

You could buy a starter home, with lot, for that in Florida.

However, £50,000 for that shack is something a master conman would would turn cold with fear trying to sell that idea.

It would make a dam nice ice fishing shack or guard house at a big parking lot or business location.

But the the price still needs to drop by a factor of around 5 - 10 times to fit into either of those markets.

<sigh>

Anyway here is the biggest problem

If the Cube was registered with the UK government's feed-in tariff, then this energy production would raise around £1,000 per year, tax free, guaranteed and index linked for 25 years. Although Page built the Cube with sponsorship, he estimates that it would cost around £50,000 in initial capital.

Says it all really. Anyone think the solar sells, hot water cylinder or any of the other products used to make this self-sustaining, 'carbon neutral' model will last the required 100 years to break even (assuming the tariff remains after the 25 year mark).

This was specifically designed for optimum results and it still couldn't achieve the goal.

Product Demonstration Fail.