Students prove solar-powered utopia does exist

If you designed and built a house with all the creature comforts of 21st century living and powered everything with solar energy, what would it look like?

Judging by the 18 houses entered in the Solar Decathlon, a student competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and held on the Mall in Washington, D.C., last month, a solar-powered house can be as varied in looks as any other kind of house.

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