{"id":482494,"date":"2010-03-28T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2285"},"modified":"2010-03-28T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T17:24:00","slug":"minnesota-solar-decathlon-icon-house-available-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/482494","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Solar Decathlon ICON House Available for Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        University of Minnesota Solar Decathlon entry, the ICON house, is coming up for sale.  &#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-exterior.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-exterior.jpg\" align=\"right\" title=\"ICON solar house in Washington DC for the Solar Decathlon\" width=\"180\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;   &#8220;The 550-square-foot home, which took fifth place overall (out of 20 teams) in October&#8217;s Solar Decathlon (a DOE-sponsored contest that challenges universities from around the globe to design and construct the most efficient and appealing sun-powered dwelling), is known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/solardecathlon.umn.edu\/\">ICON Solar House<\/a> due to its classic gabled roof design. <\/p>\n<p>It was designed and built by a consortium of professionals and students in the U of M&#8217;s Institute of Technology, College of Design and College of Continuing Education.  Minimum bid on the house will be $200,000. &#8221;   &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via University of Minnesota: <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.umn.edu\/news\/news-releases\/2010\/UR_CONTENT_182607.html\">Solar house available for purchase<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ICON house deploys LED lighting, graywater recycling for drip irrigation, and natural light daylighting.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-gophers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-gophers.jpg\" align=\"middle\" title=\"University of Minnesota Gophers Solar Decathlon House\" width=\"360\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-house.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-house.jpg\" align=\"middle\" title=\"ICON Solar House\" width=\"360\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-roof.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-roof.jpg\" align=\"middle\" title=\"ICON house solar roof\" width=\"360\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-interior.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-interior.jpg\" align=\"middle\" title=\"Interior of the ICON solar house\" width=\"360\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-structure.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-structure.jpg\" align=\"middle\" title=\"ICON Solar House structural beams\" width=\"360\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-closet.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-closet.jpg\" align=\"middle\" title=\"ICON Solar House\" width=\"360\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-beam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-beam.jpg\" align=\"middle\" title=\"Beams in the ICON solar house\" width=\"360\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-peak.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-peak.jpg\" align=\"middle\" title=\"Roof peak of the ICON solar house\" width=\"360\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greentechnolog.com\/images\/icon-solar-garden.jpg\" align=\"middle\" title=\"The garden at the ICON solar house\" width=\"360\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"12\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Minnesota Solar Decathlon entry, the ICON house, is coming up for sale. &#8230; &#8230; &#8220;The 550-square-foot home, which took fifth place overall (out of 20 teams) in October&#8217;s Solar Decathlon (a DOE-sponsored contest that challenges universities from around the globe to design and construct the most efficient and appealing sun-powered dwelling), is known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}