Gimme some spinach! We all know that spinach gave Popeye his power, but did you know it could also power your house? Inhabitat featured this fascinating piece about a house designed by Matthew Coates & Tim Meldrum that was the winner of the Cradle to Cradle contest. The house gets its electricity from spinach! Well, to be percise, it actually gets its power by solar energy, via a "solid-state photosynthetic solar based skin, who's main component for generating electricity from the sun is a protein called Photosystem 1, which is derived from spinach."
posted originally from: AT:LA
