Here’s an interesting article I came across whilst on my internet travels. The new ‘Walking Solar House‘. The concept is to allow a person to live a peaceful nomadic life… on the move by means of actuated legs attached to the housing module. Energy is collected from a variety of platforms including; solar cells and small windmills. Other eco-systems included with the portable solar house include; rain water collection and solar heated hot water. A small greenhouse can also be added to the rear of the ‘house on legs’ module.

Further features of this new concept in ‘portable housing’ include; composting toilet system, a small wood burning stove, and six linear actuating legs which allow it to supposedly traverse most terrains.

Personal Points: – I find this concept beautiful, not just on the merits of it’s design, but also the ideology that we should all share, in this case the idea is that we share the land. To see such a house hobbling, meandering onto one’s front lawn and parking up for the night would be a halcyon dream for many people.

Perhaps private property in land has weakened as a system and does not work efficiently in densely populated, industrialized countries. It has become a cultural lag, and to an important extent it is already dysfunctional. Maybe the N55 walking house could be the answer to the corporate ‘power hungry’ society in which we all live.

On a plus note, the guys at N55 (Denmark), who developed the ‘walking house’ have some pretty nifty ideas when it comes to thinking about eco-living, self sustainability, and promoting a sense of power to the little people.

“N55 is a platform for persons who wants to work together, share places to live, economy, and means of production.” Source: www.n55.dk

What are your thoughts?

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6 Responses to “The Walking Solar House – Living on the Move”

1. harish Says:
   November 4th, 2008 at 8:32 am

   wow! you seem to have developed a habit of finding such wonderful and beautiful things… keep it up… grt work as a concept…

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2. SolReka Says:
   November 4th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

   Aw shucks harish, stop it now… You’re making me blush

   As always, your kind words mean a lot. Many thanks for stopping by.

3. Esther Garvi Says:
   November 17th, 2008 at 5:21 pm

   Without doubt an interesting invention, although I doubt it would be sustainable here in West Africa, where machines don’t tend to be that long-lived… I’m glad for solar power though (we cook 90% of our food in our solar oven, thanks to the perfect (solar) weather) and can’t for the day when solar panels will be easily accessible for ordinary people – world wide.

   Greetings from Niger,
   Esther

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4. Buy PSP Go Says:
   June 27th, 2009 at 9:42 pm

   This is amazing! Although it appears a little farfetched, we need more of these kind of inventors working on pushing the boundaries of renewable energy.

5. Kaitlyn Says:
   July 17th, 2009 at 5:28 pm

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6. houseofwillis Says:
   August 12th, 2009 at 6:53 am

   Amazing!;) I bet it knocks the coffee over though

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