{"id":488798,"date":"2010-03-30T02:08:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T06:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/tianjin-university-builds-zero-energy-solar-house-for-solar-decathlon-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-03-30T02:08:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T06:08:15","slug":"tianjin-university-builds-zero-energy-solar-house-for-solar-decathlon-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/488798","title":{"rendered":"Tianjin University builds zero-energy solar house for Solar Decathlon 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/30\/tianjin-zero-energy-house-for-solar-decathlon_mhjob_11446_5SuPb_69.jpg\" alt=\"tianjin zero energy house for solar decathlon_mhjob_11446\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Off-grid energy-saving house powered by solar energy.<\/p>\n<p>A team of student designers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tju.edu.cn\/english\/\">Tianjin University<\/a> have unveiled their futuristic home that doesn\u2019t need to be connected with the grid for electrical power. Dubbed \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&#038;sl=es&#038;u=http:\/\/www.sdeurope.org\/&#038;ei=m9itS8jiI4Wdlgfe--WQAQ&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=translate&#038;ct=result&#038;resnum=3&#038;ved=0CA4Q7gEwAg&#038;prev=\/search%3Fq%3Dsolar%2Bdecathlon%2Beurope%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dopera%26hs%3DYUT%26rls%3Den\">Sunflower<\/a>\u201d, the sustainable house has been designed to participate in the Solar Decathlon 2010 competition to be held in Spain in June.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/30\/tianjin-zero-energy-house-for-solar-decathlon-7_hcv9r_11446_LFcmU_69.jpg\" alt=\"tianjin zero energy house for solar decathlon 7_hcv9r_11446\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The house features an energy-saving kitchen and an efficient recycling toilet system. Moreover, the solar-powered home has been designed in a way that maximizes sun exposure to improve both active and passive energy generation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/30\/tianjin-zero-energy-house-for-solar-decathlon-2_dwcpv_11446_j4CBt_69.jpg\" alt=\"tianjin zero energy house for solar decathlon 2_dwcpv_11446\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/30\/tianjin-zero-energy-house-for-solar-decathlon-3_2zy65_11446_zpaLE_69.jpg\" alt=\"tianjin zero energy house for solar decathlon 3_2zy65_11446\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/30\/tianjin-zero-energy-house-for-solar-decathlon-4_d1dja_11446_FPTJD_69.jpg\" alt=\"tianjin zero energy house for solar decathlon 4_d1dja_11446\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/30\/tianjin-zero-energy-house-for-solar-decathlon-5_uwmtw_11446_K7pKZ_69.jpg\" alt=\"tianjin zero energy house for solar decathlon 5_uwmtw_11446\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/30\/tianjin-zero-energy-house-for-solar-decathlon-6_pzz1p_11446_SMlET_69.jpg\" alt=\"tianjin zero energy house for solar decathlon 6_pzz1p_11446\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english2010\/photo\/2010-03\/26\/c_13226046.htm\">Xinhuanet<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greendiary.com\/entry\/sunflower-tianjin-s-zero-energy-house-for-solar-decathlon-2010-spain\/\">GreenDiary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Off-grid energy-saving house powered by solar energy. A team of student designers at Tianjin University have unveiled their futuristic home that doesn\u2019t need to be connected with the grid for electrical power. Dubbed \u201cSunflower\u201d, the sustainable house has been designed to participate in the Solar Decathlon 2010 competition to be held in Spain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488798","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\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}