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Photos of the Day — October 9, 2007
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Washington's Fox 5 Morning News visits the Solar Decathlon site and tours some of the homes. Reporter Holly Morris interviews DOE Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Alexander Karsner outside of the University of Texas at Austin house, before taking a tour. (Credit: David Hicks/Solar Decathlon) |
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Texas A&M University's hydroponic garden and array of evacuated tube solar collectors for heating water are an integral part of their house design. The garden and screen offers privacy to the deck area and the interior living space. The collectors are carefully placed to receive optimal sunlight on the tubes, even though the screen itself is on the north side of the patio. The water in the garden pond reflects radiant solar heat back up onto the tubes. (Credit: David Hicks/Solar Decathlon) |
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Team member Meredith Magin waters one of Carnegie Mellon University's three Global Gardens, just installed today. The gardens are a series of living displays symbolizing current and future land use throughout the world, with each small plastic square over the plants representing a carbon footprint. (Credit: David Hicks/Solar Decathlon) |
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Milk bottles! Even the most common-place items can have an important place in the solar-powered home. These bottles are ready for installation in the Penn State house's "milk bottle wall." The bottles will be filled with aerogel or water and placed as passive solar storage—they will absorb heat during the day and give it back in the cooler evening. Any glass container will work, but the milk bottles are in honor of Pennsylvania's dairy farm heritage. (Credit: David Hicks/Solar Decathlon) |
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Members of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid team install the deck of their house, which, once completed, will have a great view of the U.S. Capitol building. (Credit: David Hicks/Solar Decathlon) |
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With decathletes enjoying another record-setting 90-degree-plus day, there is no shortage of early afternoon sun in the solar village. Looking down the north side of Decathlete Way, the solar houses of Santa Clara University, Universidad de Puerto Rico, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Maryland are visible. (Credit: David Hicks/Solar Decathlon) |
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