1st. Solar
Powered build @ Solar Decthlon in history!
SOLAR POWERED BUILDING FOR
CAL TECH at SOLAR DECATHLON 2013
for immediate release 9/21/2013:
A
team of architecture students from the Southern California Institute
of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and engineering students from California
Institute of Technology (Caltech) are building a one-of-its-kind,
solar-powered net-zero home that will enable residents to change the
configuration of their living environment based on preference,
presenting homeowners with a house uniquely suited for their needs.
Currently being built on the SCI-Arc campus in the heart of downtown
Los Angeles, DALE, which stands for Dynamic Augmented Living
Environment, proposes a completely new approach to sustainability and
includes many other engineering and design breakthroughs that ensure
its energy usage is optimized.
This
unique home is being developed for the Solar Decathlon 2013, an
international competition sponsored by the United States Department
of Energy. The competition will for the first time take place in
California, at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine, where it will
culminate in a Solar Village open to the public from October 3-13.
The
SCI-Arc/Caltech team is also only, one of two Universities, Standford being the other, Solar Powering
their build site in Irvine, prior to the event. Never before in the
history of the Solar Decathlon has any team used portable Solar Power
for building! When the House is complete, on site, DALE will be
plugged into the grid, Solar Powered by its own home array.
The Portable Solar
Power is being supplied by a Non-Profit Organization, Power Of Green
L.A. & their youth group, Green Panthers. The organization
provides free Green Tech training to low/no income Americans and,
indeed, all of the Solar Generators were made, and sponsored by these
students, some specifically for DALE. Also, unique to this event,
Green Panther Solar Powered Media crew will be filming &
broadcasting, all off-grid using these small portable units.
Standford is being powered by Sol-Solutions, who is partnered with
Power Of Green L.A.
American innovation
at its best, its very best and power sponsored by fellow citizens who
care! The Solar Decathlon 2013 will prove to be very exciting this
year and , of course, may the best team design win!
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