The Solar Decathlon is a competition between 20 international (but mostly US) universities to build a solar, green and sustainable house that could be practically duplicated for the marketplace. Sponsored by the US Department of Energy, the contest requires teams to ship their entire house to the National Mall in Washington, DC for a week long, public exhibit and to be judged on ten sustainable areas. We got the chance to check out the Santa Clara University team house before they shipped it to DC. It was definitely inspiring to see students so passionate and excited about building sustainably. Here’s to hoping the Department of Energy will take queues from all these talented students building for the future.
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Wow. Kudos to them. Such passion and commitment. Very inspiring.
A wonderful video!
Go SCU – Show our Capital the way! Here’s hoping the sun shines through nice and strong in that competition….
really cool ideas. i hope they get some great funding out of this.
Since they are based in Silicon Valley, I bet they’ll be getting a lot of support from the new green tech movement.
This is great to see.Once the technologies can be mass produced at a competitive cost,then everyone can start using it as opposed to a few.
Then we’ll make a difference.