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Sebastian Ortner Guest
Sebastian Ortner

Team Austria

Team Austria member from 2013 Solar Decathlon in Great Park

FROM Sebastian Ortner

Solar Decathlon
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Solar Decathlon In the past two weeks 60,000 people went to the Orange County Great Park in Irvine to check out the “Solar Decathlon.” That’s the exhibition of net zero energy houses, designed and built by students for a biannual competition created by the DOE, with the goal of educating people about solar power.

8 min, 50 sec Oct 15, 2013

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