Thursday, October 27, 2011

Wind farms floating in clouds

Inflatable Wind Turbines

Fresh breath of air for energy: Wind farms floating in clouds
Developers hope to power remote or stricken areas with cheap, innovative turbines


By Eric Niiler

Imagine a city floating above the clouds and powered by a fleet of inflatable turbines, each one turning wind into electricity.

While that city and its residents may still be in the realm of science fiction, the idea of airborne wind factories is slowly becoming reality. Several tech firms are trying out new designs to harness the potential energy of winds that travel faster at altitude than at ground level.

"Winds are up to eight times stronger at 2,000 feet than at the 300 feet with wind towers," said Adam Rein, co-founder of Altaeros, a Boston-based startup. "The amount of power you can harness increases by cubic factor of the wind speed, so double wind speed is eight times the power. It's really amazing."

The Altaeros design uses a turbine blade made of lightweight composite aluminum surrounded by a circular shroud of laminate material that both focuses the wind and keeps the turbine aloft.

"It's not so different than a sail or parachute," Rein said.

The device resembles a jet engine that is filled with helium. Altaeros is preparing to launch a one-third scale prototype in the few months from an abandoned Air Force base near the Maine-Canada border. The 100-kilowatt blimp, or aerostat, will eventually generate enough power for about 40 homes, but Rein says he’s not after the residential marketplace.

Rather, he hopes his airborne turbines will power remote military bases, drilling camps or small villages off the grid that now rely on expensive diesel gasoline generators. Since the whole device fits into a shipping container, the design also is ideal for humanitarian operations after natural disasters when power supplies are sketchy at best.

"We think there is a strong need for a renewable energy solution," Rein said. "Imagine trying to erect a 300-foot tower that weighs 70 tons in Northern Canada or Alaska or Africa. It's not feasible."

The floating turbine design recently won the ConocoPhillips Energy Prize for Compelling Renewable Energy Projects, but it's not the only one out there.

Alameda, Calif.-based Makani Power has designed a kite-like airfoil that circles the sky to generate electricity through its tether, while Joby Energy of Santa Cruz is building a flying rectangular array of turbines that it hopes will generate two megawatts of power.

European firms are looking at flying turbines that generate power by the winding mechanism of their ground-based tether.

All of these floating wind turbines are above migratory routes for birds and bats, making their environmental impact less than ground-based turbines which have been targeted by conservation groups. But they do have to contend with federal rules designed to keep airspace open for general aviation and military aircraft.

Despite a few obstacles, experts say the field is open to inventors who can figure out how to make the electricity competitive with existing sources of energy.

"We are early in the development of the technology," said Fort Felker, director of the National Wind Technology Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo.

Felker says helium-filled laminate blimps have been used for many years by the Coast Guard to support radar devices that track drug-runners. But combining a turbine and a blimp is new.

"There are no machines up yet to get operational experience, and I'm sure there will be surprises along the way," Felker said. "It's not can you do it, it's can you do it at an acceptable cost."

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Saturday, October 8, 2011

LEDdynamics receives Popular Science Mag Award in Green tech category

Article from January 18, 2008

LEDdynamics announced that it is the recipient of the Popular Science “Best of 2007 Innovation Award” in the Green tech category. The award was for LEDdynamics’ EverLED-TR product line said the company in a press release.

The EverLED-TR is actually a fluorescent tube replacement which by using existing fluorescent ballasts can achieve equivalent light output of the tube it replaces. The EverLED-TR is the world’s first true LED replacement for linear fluorescent lighting said the company.

William McGrath, president and CTO of LEDdynamics, said enthusiastically: “The LEDdynamics team is honored to win this award. It’s a victory for the entire LED industry. Popular Science has recognized the environmental cost to dispose of 680 million mercury filled fluorescent tubes yearly, and found a cleaner, greener light source with LEDs by using the EverLED-TR.”

The EverLED-TR which was introduced in May last year leads the lighting market with its innovative product. LEDdynamics EverLED-TR happens to be the only lighting solution, whether LED or not to win the Green Tech award according to Popular Science Magazine.

Commenting on the methodology followed in selecting awardees, Mark Jannot, Editor-in-Chief of Popular Science Magazine said: “For 20 years, Popular Science’s Best of What’s new awards honor the innovations that make a positive impact on life today and change our views of the future. PopSci’s editors evaluate thousands of products each year to develop this thoughtful list, there’s no higher accolade Popular Science can give.

Jonathan Wish, Chief Strategic Officer remarked, “It’s the EverLED-TR’s ability to work with existing fluorescent ballasts and quality of the light produced, which were deciding factors for PopSci’s evaluation team.”

“They recognized the need for LED solutions which do not require costly removal or modification of existing systems. Because the end-user can simply ‘drop-in’ the EverLED-TR. Switching to LED technology has never been easier,” he said.

The patent pending EverLED-TR made of recyclable material has a service life of 10 years and is already popular leading the LED revolution said the company.

LEDdynamics, Inc. manufactures LuxDrive and EverLED line of products which includes drivers and light modules which use LED technology. The company strives to increase the use of LEDs as a medium of illumination.

Shamila Janakiraman is a TMCnet Contributing Editor

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Timeline Of Solar Cells

Timeline Of Solar Cells
Feb 12, 2011 in Renewable Energy

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Timeline

US685957 : Rays falling on insulated conductor connected to a capacitor; the capacitor charges electrically

1800s

1839 – Alexandre Edmond Becquerel observes the photovoltaic look via an electrode in a conductive solution exposed to light.

1873 – Willoughby Smith finds that selenium shows photoconductivity.

1877 – W.G. Adams and R.E. Day observed the photovoltaic look in solidified selenium, and published a paper on the selenium cell. ‘The action of light on selenium,’ in “Proceedings of the Royal Society, A25, 113.

1883 – Charles Fritts develops a solar cell using selenium on a thin layer of gold to form a device giving less than 1% efficiency.

1887 – Heinrich Hertz investigates ultraviolet light photoconductivity and discovers photoelectric look

1887 – James Moser reports dye sensitised photoelectrochemical cell.

1888 – Edward Weston receives patent US389124, “Solar cell”, and US389125, “Solar cell”.

1888-91 – Aleksandr Stoletov makes the first solar cell based on the outer photoelectric look

1894 – Melvin Severy receives patent US527377, “Solar cell”, and US527379, “Solar cell”.

1897 – Harry Reagan receives patent US588177, “Solar cell”..

1900-1929

1901 – Nikola Tesla receives the patent US685957, “Apparatus for the Utilization of Radiant Energy”, and US685958, “Method of Utilizing of Radiant Energy”.

1902 – Philipp von Lenard observes the variation in electron energy with light frequency.

1904 – Albert Einstein publishes a paper on the photoelectric look. Wilhelm Hallwachs makes a semiconductor-junction solar cell (copper and copper oxide).

1913 – William Coblentz receives US1077219, “Solar cell”.

1914 – Sven Ason Berglund patents “methods of increasing the capacity of photosensitive cells”.

1916 – Robert Millikan conducts experiments and proves the photoelectric look.

1918 – Jan Czochralski, a Polish scientist, produces a method to grow single crystals of metal. Decades later, the method is adapted to yield single-crystal silicon.

1920s – Solar water-heating systems, utilizing “flat collectors” (or “flat-plate collectors”), relied upon in homes and apartment buildings in Florida and southern California.

1930-1959

1932 – Audobert and Stora learn the photovoltaic look in Cadmium selenide (CdSe), a photovoltaic material still used today.

1946 – Russell Ohl receives patent US2402662, “Light sensitive device”.

1948 – Gordon Teal and John Small adapt the Czochralski method of crystal growth to yield single-crystalline germanium and, later, silicon.

1950s – Bell Labs yield solar cells for space activities.

1953 – Gerald Pearson starts research into lithium-silicon photovoltaic cells.

1954 – Bell Labs announces the invention of the first modern silicon solar cell. Shortly afterwards, they are shown at the National Academy of Science Assembly. These cells have about 6% efficiency. The New York Times forecasts that solar cells will eventually lead to a source of “limitless energy of the sun”.

1955 – Western Electric licences commercial solar cell technologies. Hoffman Electronics-Semiconductor Division makes a 2% efficient commercial solar cell for /cell or ,785/Watt.

1957 – AT&T assignors (Gerald L. Pearson, Daryl M. Chapin, and Calvin S. Fuller) receive patent US2780765, “Solar Energy Converting Apparatus”. They refer to it as the “solar battery”. Hoffman Electronics makes an 8% efficient solar cell.

1958 – T. Mandelkorn, U.S. Signal Corps Laboratories, makes n-on-p silicon solar cells, which are more strong to radiation hurt and are surpass suited for space. Hoffman Electronics makes 9% efficient solar cells. Vanguard I, the first solar powered satellite, was launched with a 0.1W, 100 cm solar panel.

1959 – Hoffman Electronics makes a 10% efficient commercial solar cell, and introduces the use of a grid friend, reducing the cell’s resistance.

1960-1979

1960 – Hoffman Electronics makes a 14% efficient solar cell.

1961 – “Solar Energy in the Developing World” conference is held by the United Nations.

1962 – The Telstar communications satellite is powered by solar cells.

1963 – Sharp Corporation produces a viable photovoltaic module of silicon solar cells.

1964 – Farrington Daniels’ landmark book, Direct Use of the Sun’s Energy, published by Yale Academe Press.

1967 – Soyuz 1 is the first manned spacecraft to be powered by solar cells

1967 – Akira Fujishima discovers the Honda-Fujishima look which is used for hydrolysis in the photoelectrochemical cell.

1970 – First highly effective GaAs heterostructure solar cells are made by Zhores Alferov and his team in the USSR.

1971 – Salyut 1 is powered by solar cells.

1973 – Skylab is powered by solar cells.

1974 – Florida Solar Energy Center starts .

1974 – Dr. Joseph Lindmayer and Dr. Peter Varadi founded the Solarex Corporation first BI-PV Solar Factory Roof

1974 – J. Baldwin, at Integrated Living Systems, co-develops the world’s first building (in New Mexico) heated and otherwise powered by solar and wind power exclusively.

1976 – David Carlson and Christopher Wronski of RCA Laboratories make first amorphous silicon PV cells, which have an efficiency of 1.1%.

1977 – The Solar Energy Research Institute is established at Golden, Colorado.

1977 – President Jimmy Carter installs solar panels on the White House and promotes incentives for solar energy systems.

1977 – The world manufacture of photovoltaic cells exceeded 500 kW

Late 1970s: the “Energy Crisis”; groundswell of public appeal in solar energy use: photovoltaic and active and passive solar, including in architecture and off-grid buildings and home sites.

1980-1999

1980 – The Institute of Energy Conversion at Academe of Delaware develops the first thin-film solar cell exceeding 10% efficiency using Cu2S/CdS technology.

1982 – Spherical solar cell was developed.

1983 – Worldwide photovoltaic manufacture exceeds 21.3 megawatts, and sales exceed 0 million.

1984 – 30,000 SF Building-Integrated Photovoltaic [BI-PV] Roof completed for the Intercultural Center of Georgetown Academe. At the time of the 20th Anniversary Journey by Horseback for Peace and Photovoltais in 2004 it was still generating an average of one MWh daily as it has for twenty years in the dense urban environment of Washington, DC.

1984 – Amoco Oil pulled factory loan to takeover of Solarex Corporation factory in Frederick, Maryland.

1985 – 20% efficient silicon cells are made by the Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering at the Academe of New South Wales.

1986 – ‘Solar-Voltaic DomeTM’ patented by Lt. Colonel Richard T. Headrick of Irvine, CA as an efficient architectural configuration for building-integrated photovoltaics [BI-PV]; Hesperia, CA field array.

1988-1991 AMOCO/Enron used Solarex patents to sue ARCO Solar out of the business of a-Si (see Solarex Corp.(Enron/Amoco)v.Arco Solar, Inc.Ddel, 805 Fsupp 252 Fed Digest. )

1989 – Reflective solar concentrators are first used with solar cells.

1990 – The Cathedral of Magdeburg installs solar cells on the roof, marking the first installation on a church in East Germany.

1991 – Efficient Photoelectrochemical cells are developed; the Dye-sensitized solar cell is invented.

1991 – President George H. W. Bush directs the U.S. Department of Energy to establish the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (transferring the existing Solar Energy Research Institute).

1992 – SOLAR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATIVE founded by Eileen M. Smith, M.Arch. to assure timely mainstream deployment of quality BI-PV Solar Architecture supported by reliable service industry in the U.S. and global marketplace.

1992 – Academe of South Florida fabricates a 15.89-percent efficient thin-film cell

1993 – The National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Solar Energy Research Facility is established.

1994 – NREL develops a GaInP/GaAs two-terminal concentrator cell (180 suns) which becomes the first solar cell to exceed 30% conversion efficiency.

1996 – The National Center for Photovoltaics is established. Graetzel, cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland achieves 11% efficient energy conversion with dye-sensitized cells that use a photoelectrochemical look.

1998 – Dignified and September Academe of New South Wales made premiere offering of on-line ‘Advanced Photovoltaics Small Course’

1998 – Historic Joint Outfit Rulemaking into the Role of the Utility Distribution Company [UDC] in Distributed Generation [DG] before the California Public Utilities Commission 98-12-015 and 99-10-025; California Energy Commission 99-DIST-GEN(1) and 99-DIST-GEN(2); California Oversight Board 99-1-A-DG

1999 – Total worldwide installed photovoltaic power reached 1000 megawatts.

2000

2002

President George W. Bush installed a 9 kW ‘building-integrated photovoltaics’ panel on the roof of a grounds maintenance building at the White House for the National Parks Service. Also installed were two solar water heating systems.

2004

March – California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed Solar Roofs Initiative for one million solar roofs in California by 2017.

June 1 – Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius issued a mandate for 1,000 MWp renewable electricity in Kansas by 2015 per Executive Order 04-05.

2006

Polysilicon use in photovoltaics exceeds all other polysilicon use for the first time.

January 12 – California Public Utilities Commission approved the California Solar Initiative (CSI), a comprehensive .8 billion program that provides incentives toward solar development over 11 years.

December 5 – New World Record Achieved in Solar Cell Technology – New Solar Cell Breaks the 40 Percent Efficient Sunlight-to-Electricity Barrier.

2007

Investors start offering free installation in return for a long term Power Buy Agreement (PPA).[citation needed]

April 23 – Start of construction of Nellis Solar Power Sow, a 15 MW PPA installation. 5 MW started operation on October 12, and the final third was completed in December.

May – The Vatican announced that in order to conserve Earth’s resources they would be installing solar panels on some buildings, in “a comprehensive energy project that will pay for itself in a few years”.

June 18 – Google solar panel project starts operation .

July 30 – Academe of Delaware claims to achieve new world record in Solar Cell Technology without independent confirmation – 42.8% efficiency.

December 18 – Nanosolar ships the first commercial printed CIGS, claiming that they will eventually ship for less than /Watt. But, the company does not publicly tell the technical specifications or contemporary selling price of the modules.

2008

Photovoltaic World manufacture, 1980-2007 (log scale). The line shows the best-fit exponential to the manufacture for the most recent 10 years, indicating a doubling of manufacture every 2 years. Units are peak MW. Image by Geoffrey A. Landis

Dignified 13 – New World Record Achieved in Solar Cell Efficiency: Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have set a world record in solar cell efficiency with a photovoltaic device that converts 40.8 percent of the light that hits it into electricity. The inverted metamorphic triple-junction solar cell was designed, fabricated and non-centrally measured at NREL.

See also

Energy development

List of energy topics

List of solar energy topics

PV financial incentives

Timeline of equipment technology

References

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^ David C. Brock (Spring 2006). “Useless No More: Gordon K. Teal, Germanium, and Single-Crystal Transistors”. Chemical Heritage Newsmagazine (Chemical Heritage Foundation) 24 (1). http://www.chemheritage.org/pubs/ch-v24n1-articles/haw_germanium.html. Retrieved 2008-01-21.

^ D. M. Chapin, C. S. Fuller, and G. L. Pearson (May 1954). “A New Silicon p-n Junction Photocell for Converting Solar Radiation into Electrical Power”. Journal of Applied Physics 25 (5): 676677. doi:10.1063/1.1721711.

^ Alferov, Zh. I., V. M. Andreev, M. B. Kagan, I. I. Protasov, and V. G. Trofim, 1970, olar-energy converters based on p-n AlxGa12xAs-GaAs heterojunctions, Fiz. Tekh. Poluprovodn. 4, 2378 (Sov. Phys. Semicond. 4, 2047 (1971))]

^ Nanotechnology in energy applications, pdf, p.24

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^ http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/

^ http://www.nytimes.com/ads/peoplesoft/article9.html

^ ElectriCity BEYOND THE CURVE OF DEREGULATION written by Eileen M. Smith, M.Arch. 2005

^ White House installs solar-electric system

^ http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/static/energy/solar/

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^ Krauss, Leah (May 31, 2007). “Solar World: Vatican installs solar panels”. United Press International. http://www.upi.com/Energy/Analysis/2007/05/31/solar_world_vatican_installs_solar_panels/3090/. Retrieved 2008-01-16.

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“History: Photovoltaics Timeline”. About, Inc., 2005.

“Bell Labs Celebrates 50th Anniversary of the Solar Cell – Timeline “. Lucent Technologies, 2004.

Lenardic, Denis, “History of photovoltaics”. PVResources.com, 2005.

Perlin, John, “Making Electricity Directly from Sunlight”. Rahus Institute, 2002.

Massey, David, “Bell Labs – The Solar Battery (Photovoltaics)”. 2005.

Trinkaus, George, “The Lost Inventions of Nikola Tesla”. Free Energy Receiver, Chapter 9.

“Solar Energy Timeline “, Charles E. Brown Middle School.

“Centre for Photovolatic Engineering Timeline”. Academe of New South Wales

History of Photovoltaics

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SOLAR HALL of FAME



Solar Hall of Fame
Freeman Ford Inducted to the International Solar Hall of Fame

Freeman Ford of FAFCO based in Chico California, were named as the 2006 inductees to the Solar Hall of Fame. The Solar Hall of Fame is an international award that was created by an Act of Congress sponsored by the Honorable John R. Foley, Esquire during the 1976 Bicentennial of the United States of America in Washington D.C. This award has been given to 45 men and women from various countries throughout the world since 1976.

The first inductees in 1976 were Dr. Charles Abbot, Dr. Erich A. Farber, Dr. John Yellot and Dr. Harry E. Thomason. A trophy is given to each year’s recipient that has a glowing red, orange and yellow sun rising out of a four sided monument that is reminiscent of the pyramid atop the Washington Monument in Washington D.C.

An international trademark was obtained for the Solar Hall of Fame for “PROMOTING EXECELLENCE IN THE FIELD OF SOLAR ENERGY UTILIZATION THROUGH PUBLIC TESTIMONIALS AND TRIBUTE TO OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTORS IN THE FIELD OF SOLAR ENERGY.”

A unique trophy symbol; the Solar Hall of Fame trademark/slogan is “Solar Hall of Fame 1976 to Today”. Each inductee receives a trophy inscribed with the Latin/Spanish “El Sol” and the Greek “Helios” above the inscription “Solar Hall of Fame”. Each individual given the award has their name inscribed under the year they were inducted on a brass plaque on one of the four sides of the pyramid. All previous inductees also have their names inscribed on brass plaques under the year they were inducted on one of the four sides of the pyramid.

Dr. Erich Farber, the last remaining member of the initial inductees gave out this year’s trophy on December 21st 2006 to Freeman Ford and Tom Lane.

Freeman Ford founded FAFCO in 1969. Fafco pioneered the use of polymers for solar pool heating, holds more than twenty patents and was incorporated in 1972. Today, US retail sales of solar thermal systems exceed $150,000,000. The electrical equivalent of FAFCO’s installed base alone exceeds 4000 megawatts.

Thomas H. Lane of ECS Solar Energy Systems in Gainesville Florida has spent over thirty years contracting and installing solar hot water, solar pool heating and solar electric systems, along with training other contractor’s world wide on how to install these systems. His 250 page book, “Solar Hot Water, Lessons Learned 1977 to Today” is the basic Handbook of solar hot water and solar pool installers in the United States.

Mr. Thomas Lane is currently instituting a solar training academy for interns to become knowledgeable in the field of solar contracting to meet the rising demand for qualified and knowledgeable solar installers.

Questions and inquiries about the Solar Hall of Fame can be directed to Dr. Erich A. Farber, Ph.D., PE. Distinguished Service Prof. EM. Director EM, Solar Energy & Energy Conversion Lab. University of Florida, 1218 NE 5th St Gainesville, FL. 32601. Phone number (352) 372-1064.

Previous Inductees to the Solar Hall of Fame



1976
Dr. Charles G. Abbot
Dr. Erich A. Farber
Dr. John I. Yellott
Dr. Harry E. Thomason

1977
Dr. Hoyt C. Hottel
Prof. Everett D. Howe
Mr. Frank Bridgers

1978
Dr. Farrington Daniels
Dr. Maria Telkes
Mr. Harold Hay

1979
Dr. Harry Z. Tabor
Dr. Richard C. Jordan
Dr. Valentin A. Baum

1980
Dr. Felix Trombe
Dr. Rodger Morse

1981
Dr. Ichimatsu Tanishita
Dr. Joseph Lindmayer

1982
Dr. Austin Whillier
Dr. Jagdish C. Kapur

1983
Dr. James L. Threlkeld
Mr. Raymond W. Bliss

1984
Dr. Thomas A. Lawand
Mr. Horace McCraken

1985
Dr. John Page
Dr. Francis de Winter

1986
Dr. Masanosuka Yanagimachi
Dr. James A. Eibling

1987
Dr. William A Shurcliff
Dr. Ken-Ichi Kimura

1988
Dr. William H. Klein
Dr. Joseph Loferski

1990
Mr. Steve Baer

1991
Dr. Lloyd O. Herwig
Dr. Yogi Goswami

1992
Dr. Kenneth G. Soderstrom
H. Jack L. Thomson, Jr.

1993
Robert L. Bailey
Webb W. Farber

1998
Dr. Norman C. Cope
Dr. Anil K. Rajvanshi

1999
Dr. David L. Block

2005
Dr. Karl W. Boer
Dr. Stanford R. Ovshinsky

2006
Mr. Tom Lane
Mr. Freeman Ford


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Saturday, October 1, 2011

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND WINS SOLAR DECATHLON 2011

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND WINS SOLAR DECATHLON 2011

SUNDAY OCTOBER 2, 2011 LAST DAY TO SEE THE SOLAR HOUSES

Saturday, October 1, 2011
By Carol Anna

Consistently appearing in first place in overall standings throughout the competition, the University of Maryland won the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced the competition results today before an excited audience that packed the main tent in the solar village.

“Maryland is a well-experienced team. After taking second place in 2007, they rested and regrouped in 2009 and came to West Potomac Park in 2011 focused and determined to win,” said Solar Decathlon Director Richard King. “In addition, Maryland’s Watershed is a beautiful house, judged first place in Architecture, which also performed impeccably in measured contests. This team mastered their strategies to ensure they excelled in all 10 contests.”

Purdue University took second place in the competition, and New Zealand (Victoria University of Wellington) received the third-place award.

The winner of the competition is the team that best blends affordability, consumer appeal, and design excellence with optimal energy production and maximum efficiency.

Results for the fifth and final juried contest, Market Appeal, were announced today prior to the competition winners. Middlebury College placed first.

“Self-Reliance left the jury very impressed, eclipsing our expectations across the board in livability and marketability,” said Brad Beeson, Market Appeal juror. “Middlebury College defined its market carefully—a young family of four with a modest income for the region—and demonstrated the fit for that target market with a very compelling video.”

Maryland came in second in Market Appeal, and New Zealand came in third.

The Market Appeal contest judges each house’s livability, buildability, and marketability.

More final results, see the Solar Decathlon 2011 scores and standings:
1. Maryland 951.151
2. Purdue 931.390
3. New Zealand 919.058
4. Middlebury College 914.809
5. Ohio State 903.938
6. SCI-Arc/Caltech 899.490
7. Illinois 875.715
8. Tennessee 859.132
9. Team Massachusetts 856.351
10. Canada 836.423
11. Florida Int'l 833.159
12. Appalachian State 832.499
13. Parsons NS Stevens 828.816
14. Tidewater Virginia 774.910
15. Team China 765.471
16. Team Belgium 709.843
17. Team New York 677.356
18. Team New Jersey 669.352
19. Team Florida 619.006


SUNDAY OCTOBER 2, 2011 LAST DAY TO SEE THE SOLAR HOUSES

The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 isn’t over yet! Tomorrow—Sunday, Oct. 2—is the last day the public can visit the solar village. And there’s plenty to do!

The houses will be on public display from 10 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. at West Potomac Park on the National Mall.

Consumer workshops run throughout the day, beginning at 10 a.m. You can learn about energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies that can save you money at home. Workshops are free. For a list of tomorrow’s workshop topics, see the daily schedule.

Get directions to the site, see the free public shuttle schedule, or learn more about tours of the houses and village.

Carol Anna is the communications manager of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.


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Solar Decathlon 2011 Washington DC

Solar Decathlon 2011 Washington DC

Last Two Days - October 1 & 2

Come see the Solar Decathlon on the National Mall
at West Potomac Park
October 1 & 2 - Hours 10a.m. to 5:30p.m.

You ask what is a solar decathlon?
It's an annual international solar homes contest.
Teams design and erect solar homes on the national mall. They are judged on design and performance. Come watch them erect the homes and later come see the winners of this year's awards.

View the current standings and videos at link below:
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