Striving for sustainability in Solar Decathlon

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12 Oct Striving for sustainability in Solar Decathlon

As the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon approaches, Team Orange County is preparing to move the house it built, called Casa del Sol, from Irvine Valley College to Irvine Great Park for the competition.

“Imagine taking apart your home,” said Fred Smoller, an associate professor of political science at Chapman and a leader of the team. “Those pipes have to be cut and re-saldered together and all the wiring has to be put back in and into each of the lightsockets. It’s absolutely enormous. It’s beyond anything you can imagine.”

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