Today the house was closed to the general public for competition purposes. Right now we are ahead on the amount of energy stored in our batteries from where we started on Monday. What does that mean? Good things. Tomorrow is supposed to be a cloudy day here, especially between 10-2pm, the best hours for collecting energy from the sun. We will continue to monitor the batteries. As competition continues teams will start to make strategic decisions on what should be done. Should we focus in on getting energy balance? Should we put the energy into the GEM and convert it to mileage for points? Should we compete in the lighting and appliance categories? Can we do everything? Tomorrow, I believe we may see a turning point of the competition.
The Solar Decathlon points battle on the National Mall continues to wage, but we are currently leading the Hot Water and Appliances portions of the event. We have yet to be judged on Energy Balance and the all-important (to us) Engineering, and the Comfort Zone, Lighting, and Getting Around events are judged throughout the week, so no points have yet been awarded in any of those categories. In the morning we will find out the results of the Market Viability Contest.
As of the time of this posting here are the scores as of this posting:
Hot Water
Rank Team Score
1 Missouri-Rolla 60.000
1 Texas 60.000
1 Santa Clara 60.000
1 Puerto Rico 60.000
1 Penn State 60.000
1 Kansas 60.000
1 Maryland 60.000
8 MIT 59.500
9 Darmstadt 57.700
10 NYIT 56.800
11 Georgia Tech 56.200
12 Texas A&M 50.000
12 Cincinnati 50.000
14 Montreal 47.900
15 Carnegie Mellon 46.500
16 Cornell 44.400
17 Colorado 41.000
18 Illinois 38.700
19 Madrid 38.100
20 Lawrence Tech 0.000
1 Missouri-Rolla 43.109
2 Texas A&M 43.006
3 Georgia Tech 41.487
4 Lawrence Tech 38.419
5 Santa Clara 38.090
6 Darmstadt 37.053
7 Penn State 33.949
8 Maryland 32.832
9 Madrid 31.234
10 Montreal 29.931
11 MIT 29.893
12 Kansas 29.686
13 Illinois 28.147
14 Cornell 27.872
15 Carnegie Mellon 27.723
16 Texas 27.137
17 Puerto Rico 26.839
18 Colorado 25.623
19 NYIT 24.266
20 Cincinnati 21.014
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