Over the past year and a half, a team of more than 100 Cal Poly students has worked to build a home that would enable the owner to pay no electricity bills, make water use efficient, and have power left over to run an electric car. The Cal Poly INhouse project is a 1,000-square-foot home with a 700-square-foot patio that features creatively designed bifacial solar panels with energy-absorbing cells on both the top and bottom of the panels. The panels not only take in sunlight from above but collect rays that are reflected off the deck from below. Read more: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2015/09/08/3797531/cal-poly-team-builds-solar-home.html#yt | Video by Nick Wilson
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Post time: Jan-04-2017