{"id":22588,"date":"2016-02-22T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/self-sufficient-floating-home-to-create-its-own-water-and-energy"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:09:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:09:23","slug":"self-sufficient-floating-home-to-create-its-own-water-and-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/self-sufficient-floating-home-to-create-its-own-water-and-energy","title":{"rendered":"Self-sufficient floating home to create its own water and energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-sufficient-floating-home-to-create-its-own-water-and-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Living on a houseboat may seem very romantic, but the day-to-day misery of hauling water from shore and listening to the thump of the generator can soon take the icing off the cupcake. As a glimpse into what could be the future of aquatic living, two Fraunhofer Institutes and their partners are working on a self-sufficient floating home that creates its own water, electricity, and heat without looking like a works barge.<\/p>\n<p>Housing shortages are a recurring problem in many parts of Europe and the canals of Amsterdam and London show that floating homes are hardly a new idea. But such residences must either be situated in the few places where power and water hook-ups are practical or find tenants who don\u2019t mind living off the grid.<\/p>\n<p>To make it feasible to live comfortably without being tied up to a pier, Fraunhofer and its associates have initiated the Lusation autartec project, which is aimed at a Germany that is looking more toward floating homes for both recreation and residency.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/fraunhofer-floating-home-energy-self-sufficient\/40758\/?li_source=LI&li_medium=default-widget\">http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/fraunhofer-floating-home-energy-self-s...ult-widget<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living on a houseboat may seem very romantic, but the day-to-day misery of hauling water from shore and listening to the thump of the generator can soon take the icing off the cupcake. As a glimpse into what could be the future of aquatic living, two Fraunhofer Institutes and their partners are working on a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68294,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588\/revisions\/68294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}