Should I Join the Solar Decathlon?

[blustori]

What do you think?

 

[imported_gshock]

Sounds like fun.

 

[RCN]

Originally posted by: gshock
Sounds like fun.

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: RCN

Originally posted by: gshock
Sounds like fun.

 

[RU482]

any reasons not to?

 

[Ricemarine]

A house to live in?

Yeah... I wonder how good the shower can be.

 

[Dubb]

I worked on one while it was in the early planning stages.

it's a good time, but be ready to be very frustrated with the rules & regs. The way the rules work, you have the best chance of winning building a small, super insulated house with the bare minimum of windows, and the biggest, most impractical solar array possible (look at colorado's two winners).

basically the rules in effect discourage things like practical innovation, which is precisely what competitions like this should be fostering.

 

[Justin218]

my university built one for that competition and now it's sitting back behind the engineering building rotting away in 3 seperate pieces. they should have atleast reassembled it when they brought it back.

 

[Wonderful Pork]

don't do it! designing with solar power sucks!