Amid the ongoing energy crisis and climate change, people around the world are searching for alternatives to power their homes.Among them are Syd and Camille Goodman.The Australian couple has turned their hand to collecting and recycling salvaged batteries to power their home and leave as small carbon footprints as possible.In their garage, hundreds of batteries are lying around. Syd disassembles and tests each one of them before using them to store solar power, which is their house’s main energy source.The couple says that Australia’s Black Summer in 2020, where there were intense bushfires in many parts of the country, was a wake-up call to change their lifestyle to be more sustainable.”We started trying to figure out how much carbon could we emit, so we could have a budget. And the more we looked into it the more we realised there is no proper amount because we’re going to…
This Australian couple powers their home with solar energy stored on recycled laptop batteries
