Super Shiny Homes: surPLUShome

As shiny homes go, they don’t get much shinier than this.

Source: Inhabitat

Looking like another escapee from the set from Blade Runner (cf. The Pyramid House), it is in fact the overall winner of the 2009 Solar Decathlon over in Washington D.C. - a competition which seeks to raise awareness about renewable energy whilst encouraging and promoting new techniques for creating zero-energy homes.

Right, that’s the serious bit over, now on to the fun fact that, despite USA fielding 15 teams, the overall winner was Germany. Again.

Vorsprung Durch Technik* as they say in Washington.

More details over at Inhabitat

* roughly translates as: “We’ve Been Green For Years And What We Don’t Know About Renewable Energy You Could Write On A (Recycled) Post-It Note”

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