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Germany Overturns Solar Rules to Win Decathlon With 200% Solar Home
For the first time in the Solar Decathlon, a home that has produced twice the amount of energy as it used, won the first prize. And it did so in a very unusual way. Every year the US Department of Energy has a solar competition for the best house that gets 100% of its electricity […]
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Coal Mine Rehab Creates Tropical Paradise in Germany
Here’s an interesting idea. Take an old coal field and rehab it inside a solar powered glasshouse the size of a city block and put freestanding buildings inside the outer shell of glass and solar cells.