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Germany nabs second Solar Decathlon win

by Pat Coate | October 17, 2009

A university team from Germany has won the U.S. Energy Department's Solar Decathlon for the second competition in a row, officials declared Friday.

Officials judged the 20 schools not only on aesthetics and solar power generation but on consumption of energy and ability to maintain a "comfort zone" between hot and cold for the home's inhabitants.

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