A House Powered By Spinach?

Spinach is not only good for your body, but for your house as well. This is a residence which obtains its electricity from spinach, designed by Matthew Coates and Tim Meldrum. It doesn’t really mean that the house is powered by spinach; the way it works is that the house has a solid-state photosynthetic solar cell based skin, whose main ingredient for producing electricity from the sun is a protein called Photosystem I, which is derived from spinach: a system developed by MIT researchers.


The residence has a landscaped roof garden designed to collect and filter rainwater, and uses soy-based walls and recycled concrete materials to provide a sustainable choice to the common construction materials.
Via Inhabitat