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VIEW POST: It's All Over Bar the Partying--with Schnapps, Vielleicht

It's All Over Bar the Partying--with Schnapps, Vielleicht

By ChrisStimpson
October 16, 2009   |   Post Your Comment
from today's Department of Energy press release (see also Solar Nation comment following release)U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman today announced the winners of the 2009 Depar...
VIEW POST: So what do you make of this Decathlon thing?

So what do you make of this Decathlon thing?

By ChrisStimpson
October 13, 2009   |   Post Your Comment
"We've been interested in the potential of solar power since the oil crisis of 1974, and (the Solar Decathlon) is a great place to come and see how far it's progressed. "We're recent retirees, and we...
VIEW POST: Today's Technology -- Available Today!

Today's Technology -- Available Today!

By ChrisStimpson
October 11, 2009   |   Post Your Comment
Themes abound at the Solar Decathlon, and not necessarily the obvious ones ("we have solar panels on the roof!")  Cornell University's entry, the subject of my first blog from this event, present...
VIEW POST: You Mean This is a Competition?

You Mean This is a Competition?

By ChrisStimpson
October 11, 2009   |   Post Your Comment
The more I see of the houses in the Solar Decathlon, the more I realize that this is not a competition with a level playing field.  Or to put it another way, every one of the twenty entries makes...
VIEW POST: A Life Beyond the Solar Decathlon

A Life Beyond the Solar Decathlon

By ChrisStimpson
October 9, 2009   |   Post Your Comment
Two days ago I commented on the vast difference, both in design philosophy and cost, between two of the houses in this year's Solar Decathlon.  The Team Germany entry was designed to 'push the en...
VIEW POST: The Team To Beat

The Team To Beat

By ChrisStimpson
October 8, 2009   |   Post Your Comment
Who is the 'team to beat' at the 2009 Solar Decathlon?  (We New England Patriots fans like to talk in terms of the 'team to beat'...)  It would have to be the Technische Universitat Darmstad...
VIEW POST: Let the Games Begin!

Let the Games Begin!

By ChrisStimpson
October 8, 2009   |   Post Your Comment
With these words, and backed by 450 competing solar decathletes from five countries, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu officially opened the 2009 Solar Decathlon on the National Mall in Washington D...

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