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I did record, and watch, a one hour documentary
Solar Decathlon on the on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It was actually pretty good.
Some of the requirements were pretty high pressure in that the students had to transport and set up within a week (I think) and judges listened to their spiel and observed if the built-from-scratch systems really worked as intended. The portability of the homes severely restricted wide open practical design.
Germany’s Technische Universitat Darmstadt won the competition, followed by the University of Maryland and Santa Clara University in California.
The current damage to floors was listed as about $16k on one site I saw.
Wonder how we Cobra guys would do if we had to design and build a high performance replica on a D.C. lawn in a week. One that didn't use any gas. We might get our butt kicked by some Germans building a BMW Z4 replica.
Hey! Just thought of something. I'm half German.
But quarter Bohemian. Didn't they build Yugo's or something?
Wes
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