UC solar house serves as a summer laboratory

During the summer downtime, the UC solar house is being recycled – as a laboratory to learn how hot water can be used as a power source.

University of Cincinnati faculty and students representing the architecture, engineering and physics programs are using the house to explore the alternative energy technology in such applications as creating a hot water battery and using solar-heated water to dry clothes.

By the end of summer, the team hopes to be able to compare capital equipment and operational costs for the experiments to those of conventional equipment.

The UC solar house was built for the 2007 Solar Decathlon, an international competition among 20 elite global programs to design and build the world’s best solar house.

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