Tag: Solar
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What Is Solar Electrical Power?
Understanding how solar power works is helpful for many people. We repost this story from Greenergy News.
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LEED Platinum Awarded to “Livable Sculpture” SoCal Home Workplace
Designed for private investor, Craig Ehrlich, by John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects, this 1,150 square foot single-family home was built on a lot that is adjacent to the Ehrlich family home that was designed by the same firm about ten years ago, which was built around a garden and featured a graywater recycling system, photovoltaic…
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Net-Zero Solar-Powered Start.Home Could Transform Green Home Building
Since ground broke on the Start.Home, the students who are designing and building the Stanford University entry in the 2013 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon have been learning their way around the construction site from five Carpenters Union instructors. CU is a Platinum-level project sponsor, joining other companies like DIRECTV, Intel, General Electric, Applied…
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MIT Map Assesses Cambridge Rooftop Power Potential
Kudos to the people at MIT who created this interactive map showing property owners in the city how much electricity can be generated from their rooftops. ASSESSING A CITY’S SOLAR POWER POTENTIAL A New Tool from SA+P’s Building Technology Program SA+P researchers have developed a new interactive map to show a city’s property owners how much electricity can be produced on their rooftops…