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Old 9th-January-2008, 08:49 AM
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Sanyo in Japan has constructed an amazing solar-collecting building that embodies both clean-energy ideals and awesome architectural design strategies. The so-called Solar Ark has over 5,000 active solar panels generating over 500,000 KWh of environmentally friendly energy.

http://ecoble.com/2008/01/07/the-wor...ting-building/

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A few more thousand Arks like this and maybe we can stave off the next flood.
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Looks like a samurai sword case, but if we are going to use solar energy; this is a pretty neat design and shows we can be creative and integrate solar heat panels into landscapes and cities in a way that they will satisfy some of our energy needs, yet be unintrusive.
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That is a nice looking building
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Cant help wonder if the floors are curved or flat.

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This is positive proof that solar panels don't necessarily look bad on a building.
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