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Power Your Home with Helium Balloons

Need to get some quick-and-pretty solar energy to your house, but don't want to mount a bunch of heavy solar panels on your roof? Now you can start powering up with these gorgeous, lightweight solar balloons. As long as you've got a helium tank handy, says inventor Joseph Cory, just one or two of these balloons made with photovoltaic solar cells could power your whole house. More »

4:09 PM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Annalee Newitz
7,486 views, 16 comments

Latest by n/a: @rebrad: Lowering home values? How is free energy detrimental to a home's value? Maybe it doesn't fit the white-picket-fence image, and I suppose it wouldn't work in a Historic District, but I don't see how it's any tackier than a more »