Even in Birmingham, not famous for fresh air and sun, the building will generate more energy than it uses.
"Passive renewable energy" measures, such as using natural ventilation to cool a building and spacing windows to maximize the sun's light, are other ways to slash a building's electric bill.
Zegerman by first one and then a second squad car pulling up outside the building, their sun-muted siren lights twirling unnoticed by anyone but him.
Standing beside his new Honda car, in front of the swanky new home he is building, Mr Sun says he has been selling trees to local governments and developers for a decade.
As illustrated by the collapse of the magnificent antique citadel at Bam, the largest sun dried bricks (adobe) building in the world and a World Heritage Site, during the devastating earthquake that struck this ancient Iranian city, cultural heritage sites themselves are threatened by earthquake destruction.
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We walked across the border from Ethiopia, the noon sun beating down on the squat concrete building where an officer gruffly motioned us to a bench.
The summer months see Times Square overrun by visitors all scrambling for their "I Heart NYC" t-shirt and matching sun visor, while the Empire State Building's elevator queue can, through the heat-haze, seem to extend as far, horizontally, as the iconic building stretches for the skies.
But as he stood on the sun-splashed 86th floor of the Empire State Building, he was 1, 050 feet above ground level and had just led the U.S. to a snowy win over Costa Rica and a draw at Mexico that got the Americans' World Cup qualifying campaign back on track.
Two thousand years hence, Sherwood says hypothesized collections of Asteroidal materials congregating at the Earth-Sun L4 and L5 gravitational equilibrium points would make for building materials to construct a large rotating pancake disk capable of housing thousands of people in the comfort of a free-breathing atmosphere and some form of artificial gravity.
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But building solar cells, the devices that convert photons from the sun into streams of electrons and electricity, is complex, expensive magic to pull off--and has burned many entrepreneurs and investors in the past.
Flo-Sun, for example, is now marketing products such as organically grown sugar and building its Florida Crystals brand.
We should be building an affordable power system based on our abundant clean energy from the wind, waves and sun.
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