Solar powered sustainable home built by IIT shunya team

When you add a parameter called Green (basically energy efficiency by using renewable sources) in building a nice house, a whole lot of new designs and approaches are required to build a comfortable home operating at high energy efficiency and consuming energy from the greener resources mainly solar and wind. More important is making it sustainable. The world's most interesting competition in building solar powered energy-efficient house is Solar Decathlon. In this competition, engineering students from around the world are asked to build a highly energy-efficient sustainable house which not only need to be energy-efficient also comfortably enough to the present day standards. By using renewable energy sources only, the house should generate energy and put back to the grid by consuming whatever is required for a typical small family. The designer should not use any storage batteries, they can use the grid power during night and cloudy weather, but they should generate and feed the grid enough electrical energy exceeding what they have consumed during night time. The other environment friendly technologies such as water harvesting, electric car for commuting all need to be used. Strictly no use of fossil fuels. The presently going on event Solar Decathlon 2014 Europe has 20 teams who have build solar powered energy efficient homes. Solar Decathlon Europe 2014 Compe...