Nov 10, 2008 7:21 pm US/Pacific
Bay Area Scientists Work On 'Hybrid House'
(CBS 5)
If you're tired of high electric bills, the house of the future may be able to take wasted energy from your home appliances, and store it for later.
Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab are working on a so-called "hybrid house." Sources such as exhaust from a dryer or the heat generated from a refrigerator would be converted into energy and stored in giant batteries.
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