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Power at the end of the line, without a diesel generator. Water in, power out.
Living rural in New Zealand or Australia usually means a long, exposed power line and a diesel generator for when it fails. Batteries help for a night, but a multi-day outage drains them and the generator does the rest. You end up paying for fuel, listening to an engine and planning your life around fuel runs.
Bigger battery banks help, but they lose charge over time and get expensive fast. What rural homes really need is a way to bank energy for days, not hours.
H2OME charges on cheap off-peak power, or from a wind turbine or micro-hydro, and turns it into hydrogen using water. Hydrogen keeps for weeks without losing charge. When the batteries run low, a fuel cell turns the hydrogen back into electricity, and the only by-product is water, which goes back into the loop.
Water in, power out. The water goes round, and the tank holds enough for days.
Filtered water fills the loop. The fuel cell makes water back, so it goes round again.
It tops itself up on off-peak night-rate power, when electricity costs least.
A hydrogen tank doesn't lose charge sitting there, so a winter or a long outage is covered.
No engine, no fumes, no fuel runs. The only exhaust is water vapour.
Pilot installs go to people on this list first. Rural homes, farms and remote sites especially. No spam, no payment.