Solar Decathalon = Green Ingenuity

U.S.A. Today had a great story on an event that's taking place on the National Mall in Washington D.C. this weekend. It's a competition between 20 teams of students from all over the world that focuses on harnessing the energy of the sun to meet the energy needs of homes.

Many of the solar homes have sustainable materials in them such as "pressed wheat and sunflower hull cabinetry, recycled glass tiles and fly ash countertops made from the ash of incinerated garbage. Bamboo floors replace pine or oak because the durable, fast-growing grass yields four times as much material on the same amount of land."

There will be a team from Georgia Tech to represent us and the results of the hard work should be very exciting. To learn more about how solar cells work, CLICK HERE.