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who took the vast majority of photos in this report. Unless otherwise attributed, Stefano Paltera took the photos in the foreward matter and pages 1-19, and Chris Gunn is responsible for the photos in pages 20-48.

A new collegiate competition, called the Solar Decathlon, is under way. Fourteen teams from colleges and universities across the United States, including Puerto Rim, will assemble on the National Mall in Washington, DC. in late September 2002. They will compete to capture, convert, store, and use enough solar energy to power small, solar-powered, energy-efficient homes that they hade designed, built, and transported to the site. Solar Decathletes will be required to provide all the energy for an entire household, induding a home-based business and the transportation needs of the household and business. During the event, only the solar energy available within the perimeter of each house may be used to generate the power needed to compete in the ten Solar Decathlon mntests.

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