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Solar-curtain "soft house" plan proposed by MIT prof


The Register - July 04, 2008 09:42 AM

Soft buildings: require no foundation of hard facts

Architect Watch Heavens be praised* - the energy security/climate/fuel-price crisis has been solved by an MIT professor. Remarkably, not a professor of engineering or science either - but an architecture prof. Sheila Kennedy and her partner Frano Violich - assisted by other architects - have designed a "soft house" powered by "energy harvesting" solar-photovoltaic curtains.?


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