WATCH: Students build solar-powered home
August 31st, 2009
Santa Clara University’s entry to the US Department of Energy’s 2009 Solar Decathlon competition has been two years in the making, and tomorrow at long last, Refract House will be revealed to the public. The showcase will be brief, however; the team will have to disassemble the 800-square-foot solar-powered home in its entirety before transporting it across the country to the October competition in Washington, DC. (Not very eco-friendly, we know, but it’s for the greater green good.)
Those who tuned in last week know that I took a trip up to the university to watch Team California in action, where construction leader Dan Ruffoni was kind enough to give me a tour.
Check out the Refract House website in the next couple days for photos of the finished product. Best of luck, Team California!
–Jennifer Grayson
Related post:
Refract House: Student-built, sun-powered
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September 17th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
This house is so cool! Examples like this make me optimistic about the future.
September 17th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Me too! I wish I lived in DC so I could check out all the other amazing entries to the Solar Decathlon. If anyone does, here’s the info about when the houses will be open to the public:
http://www.solardecathlon.org/