Natural Fusion: Solar-powered home designed for 'realities of life'
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 16:28
in Earth & Climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Long cylinders wrapped in a thin dark blue film rest atop a newly constructed home in Central Pennsylvania. Beneath the cylinders is vegetation. The arrangement is not only the engine that powers the house, but may be evidence that the future of solar-powered homes has arrived.