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Building Green With Solar Bricks
Architecture News - Sep 05, 2008 - 13:08 6159 views
What a great idea: incorporating solar energy not only into windows androofs, but into the building blocks of structures themselves … as inbricks. The solar-powered brick, which has a solar cell embedded insideit, could be used to provide decorative or safety lighting, or evenilluminate rural airplane runways, according to San Antonio-baseddistributor Sunrise Solar. Equally cool: you can order bricks that glow in any of a variety of colors.
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