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Solar Village - the Results Are in!

Green Lifestyle (tags: solar, sustainable housing, greenenergy, greenenergy, housing )

Tamara
- 395 days ago - solardecathlon.org

20 colleges and universities have been participating for the past week in an international solar decathalon held on the National Mall in Washington DC. They have incorporated many creative and innovative ideas into their solar houses.

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Daniel Barker (35)

Saturday October 20, 2007, 12:43 pm
Solar energy has one advantage - it produces power when we need it most - the middle of the day. Not only that, it has two other advantages - you can cheat, and in the summer time you can save on your A/C bill.

You can cheat by reflecting more light on the solar panel. As mirrors are much cheaper than solar panels the savings are enormous.

Also, in the summertime you save on your air conditioning. Guess why? The sunlight hitting the panel converted to electricity is not hitting the roof heating it up, so there is less solar energy hitting the roof.

Nazanin zadeh (5)

Sunday October 21, 2007, 5:21 am
I agree. Enough of all these pollution we breath day after day. But one point still stands still: The bif jiant powers are the one who run the show. Hope we could win even in the small ways.

Nazanin