Seed Home v2 Future Work

The essence of the seed home project is inspiring public solving of pressing world issues. As such, we involve the public in:

1. Funding real R&D to solve housing

Development Path

It is clear to us that autonomous, energy and food-producing housing is the natural evolution of housing. Critical technologies to enable this include:

1. PV - already avialable at under 40 cents per watt
2. Electrical Energy storage - between smart home energy technology, smart refrigeration, wind power and battery backup - current technology allows for complete off-grid operation in housing at a cost actually lower than grid electricity. Typical payback times using OSE technology are on the order of 2-5 years compared to grid electricity.
3. Aquaponics and closed loop organic cycle - with biodigester, worm towers, fungi towers, and aquaponic towars, duckweed and azolla - completely closed loop waste cycles can be created where waste is converted to food and fertilizer, all within the area of a greenhouse. Think of an advanced system that does not send waste down the sewers - but instead is turned into lush greenery and food.