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	Troy's celebrated solar house left in dark.

4ensic

5-15-2009 10:15 AM

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solar, michigan, fail

4ensic says:

A failed house in a failed state using technology that, you guessed it, failed.

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5-16-2009 3:16 AM

merrie

I just clipped an article about that "Green House", but it's from "Green Hell blog"

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