inverter Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:18:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 How Chris powered his house on his Prius https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-chris-powered-his-house-on-his-prius-20080202/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-chris-powered-his-house-on-his-prius-20080202/#respond Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:19:02 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/index.php/2008/02/02/how-chris-powered-his-house-on-his-prius/ WHEN Hurricane Frances ripped through Gainesville, Fla., in 2004, Christopher Swinney, an anesthesiologist, was without electricity for a week. A few weeks ago, Dr. Swinney lost power again, but this time he was ready. He plugged his Toyota Prius into the backup uninterruptible power supply unit in his house and soon the refrigerator was humming […]

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