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Updated: 6:49 PM Sep 24, 2009
UK team completes solar decathlon house
A team of faculty and students at U-K has completed the "Sky Blue House". The house is a net zero energy home and will be taken to Washington, D.C. to compete in the Department of Energy's fourth biennial solar decathlon.
Posted: 5:30 PM Sep 24, 2009Reporter: Meteorologist Lauren Raymer Email Address: lauren.raymer@wkyt.com |
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A team of faculty and students at U-K has completed the "Sky Blue House". The house is a net zero energy home and will be taken to Washington, D.C. to compete in the Department of Energy's fourth biennial solar decathlon.
Nearly 200 students have been working on the 18-month project in preparation for the competition. They will be competing against 20 different universities across the world.
The house is fully equipped with 42 solar panels for electricity, tinted windows, and other energy efficient items that will allow the house to produce more electricity that what it will use.
Don Colliver, Ag Engineering Dept, says, " Just being able to compete in this decathlon is a reward. We are the only SEC university chosen to participate."
The team will begin the journey to Washington, D.C. this weekend and the competition will begin on October 9th. The competition will announce a winner on the 18th.
Once the competition is over, Lexington will use the "Sky Blue House" as a visitors center for the world equestrian games.
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The sun provides thousands more times energy every day than the entire planet consumes. If we could only get the government to truelly subsidize alternative energy we could drop the price of oil power and everythign else in turn all the while saving the planet and air. If we all merely replaced our water heaters with more efficient units and used batterys charged by solar panels for our tv's fridges and other or all devices our exspenses on power could be eliminated. Imagine pay for power once and you have it the rest of your life. No more $500 suprise power bills. No more 10% rate increases every single [edited] year. This would all be right now if it weren't for the corrupt politicians beign paid by power companies not to incourage use or even make alternative power affordable. After all what 70yrold cares about 30years from now. They wont be here.
Where have you been UK--playing basketball?
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