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The Solar Hero documentary follows Team Alberta as they compete in the Solar Decathlon. All the way from the inception of the project, back in 2007, through to Washington, DC in October 2009. A summary is given relating the general progress of the team, their next few steps, and any possible foreseeable obstacles along the way. Interviews have been conducted with team members to capture personal opinions of the project, its current status, and feelings about one's own team and the other competitors. Animated footage would provide information on the general status of each team in relation to the others, as well as provide practical environmental information for around the house and the workplace. Solar Hero is a window on the best young minds in Alberta working brilliantly to create new avenues in solar living.
Transcript
00:05What's the status of the planet?
00:07I think the short answer is we're gradually turning it into a giant artifact.
00:11Humans have such a reach. Human technology gives us such a reach.
00:16We are gradually creating a planet that is in essence artificial.
00:20And that means we have to think differently about how we manage it.
00:23When people understand, they can appreciate.
00:28And when they don't understand, they get all frustrated and confused and riled up and angry.
00:34It is a little bit of a tough sell right now.
00:38But solar panels on your roof as a status symbol, maybe that's where we go.
00:46Instead of having the big fancy SUV, maybe you're the guy in the block that's got all the solar panels
00:51and is the cool man.
00:53It takes more than sunlight to power this house.
00:58These students found an energy source more powerful than anything their province ever created.
01:03And it honestly took me a couple weeks when I left Washington, D.C. for me to take a step
01:08back and realize what the team had done.
01:10It's time to discover Alberta solar heroes who are determined to change the status quo.
01:19What is all of this going to be like 30 years from now, 50 years from now?
01:23You know, all of those million decisions that we all make when we become adults ourselves.
01:30So I think that it's essential, it's pertinent that all of us think about how our everyday choices affect not
01:37only our lives but the lives of people like Kaya.
01:41Because it's their world.
01:43But as soon as you say, oh by the way we need to take it apart and move it across
01:46the continent, they're like, oh that's too risky, I can't advise you on that.
01:51So we were kind of a bit on our own.
01:55Team Alberta had their share of challenges in building a house for world competition.
02:00But the team found a way to make it work and dare to put their work up against the best
02:05in the world.
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