Blue Sky Limousine

I read somewhere that some country has decided to embark on an ambitious quest to make all new homes by 2020 capable of creating and producing as much energy as they use. It is theorized that developing solar technologies will greatly aid in this endeavor, as they will soon become small and flexible enough to coat most outer layers of a person’s home. That would mean that every available square inch of the outer walls of a house would be set to harness sunlight energy at all possible moments.

Sounds great. I wonder what other sources of energy a house could utilize? Maybe go Matrix-style and find a way to harness excess heat produced by humans. In the summer, when it’s hot, I wonder if the thermal energy could be converted into electricity? If we had the technology to convert heat into electricity, thereby reducing local temperatures, we’d pretty much have a cure to global warming, don’t you think?