Gov’t Built Solar House Falls Apart

[VRM]

Originally Posted by 392cobra

In my non-PC world...An F is a F. The project failed.

No Short Bus Trophies.

Fred,
Maybe you should take a look at a few less biased writeups as the guy who wrote this article had no idea what he was talking about.

According to Lawrence Tech U someobody was making some modifications and switched off a circuit breaker and forgot to turn it back on. It ended up causing about $16K wort of damage.

The house was initially paid for by private individuals and corporate sponsors - the $900K included transportation to Washington DC. The real cost of the house was about $550K. The house was given by the Troy Chamber of Commerce to the City of Troy, and the city is now responsible for the maintenance costs.

The house was in a competition against 20 other solar powered houses from Cornell, MIT and others - and took second place. Looks like it served its purpose very well - good thing you are not giving out the grades for the project.

I personaly would congratulate them - scoring a second aginst some heavy hitters like MIT was probably not an easy thing. But you go ahead and give them an 'F' 'cause engineering talent like yours and Roscoes is just real hard to come by.

I'd like to see an apology from you and Roscoe to them before this thread gets closed - those LTU folks deserve a LOT better than what they got from the two of you.

Mods, my apologies if this is a bit too personal but I am really sick of these uninformed hit pieces posing as news - and I am especially not fond of attacks on other engineer types not present to defend themselves by people who would not have a bloody idea where to begin to achieve even half of what those students did.

Sorry for the rant - this is the second time I've ever reacted emotionally on this forum.

Steve

[392cobra]

Originally Posted by VRM

Fred,
According to Lawrence Tech U someobody was making some modifications and switched off a circuit breaker and forgot to turn it back on. It ended up causing about $16K wort of damage.


The house was in a competition against 20 other solar powered houses from Cornell, MIT and others - and took second place. Looks like it served its purpose very well - good thing you are not giving out the grades for the project.

I personaly would congratulate them - scoring a second aginst some heavy hitters like MIT was probably not an easy thing. But you go ahead and give them an 'F' 'cause engineering talent like yours and Roscoes is just real hard to come by.

I'd like to see an apology from you and Roscoe to them before this thread gets closed - those LTU folks deserve a LOT better than what they got from the two of you.


Sorry for the rant - this is the second time I've ever reacted emotionally on this forum.

Steve

The house was a part of the Solar Decathlon's "solar village" exhibition in Washington, D.C. It competed against a field of 20 universities – including MIT, Carnegie Mellon and Cornell – in last year's decathlon, a prestigious international competition where universities contend to build the most attractive and energy-efficient, solar-powered home.

Lawrence Tech was the smallest college in the contest and the only one from Michigan. Its house was one of the runners-up in the BP People’s Choice Award competition, thanks to an architectural design many found attractive and livable.

They didn't get "Second",they got a Short Bus Trophy for showing up.

Nothing for all their "Green".
They couldn't even figure to turn the heat back on because it's going it cold and freeze the pipes.

"Oh,I forget" Must have been the window licker at the back of the bus.

[VRM]

Originally Posted by 392cobra

The house was a part of the Solar Decathlon's "solar village" exhibition in Washington, D.C. It competed against a field of 20 universities – including MIT, Carnegie Mellon and Cornell – in last year's decathlon, a prestigious international competition where universities contend to build the most attractive and energy-efficient, solar-powered home.

Lawrence Tech was the smallest college in the contest and the only one from Michigan. Its house was one of the runners-up in the BP People’s Choice Award competition, thanks to an architectural design many found attractive and livable.

They didn't get "Second",they got a Short Bus Trophy for showing up.

Nothing for all their "Green".
They couldn't even figure to turn the heat back on because it's going it cold and freeze the pipes.

"Oh,I forget" Must have been the window licker at the back of the bus.

Well, it's a good thing that Edison managed to invent the light bulb on his first try, or he would be on that short bus too.