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"I Started Collecting Them Years Ago": Since 2016, This Man Has Run His House on 650 Laptop Batteries Without Failure

Summary by The Daily Galaxy
In a quiet suburb of Farmingdale, New York, a private home has been running independently of the electric grid since 2016—without a utility bill, commercial battery pack, or government subsidy. Its power source? Six hundred and fifty salvaged laptop battery cells, wired together by a single individual known online as Glubux. This system, built from second-hand 18650 lithium-ion cells extracted from discarded laptops, has operated without inciden…
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The Daily Galaxy broke the news in on Thursday, December 18, 2025.
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