{"id":105681,"date":"2020-04-18T16:04:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T23:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/project-in-morocco-combines-hemp-and-solar-to-go-totally-off-grid"},"modified":"2020-04-18T16:04:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T23:04:19","slug":"project-in-morocco-combines-hemp-and-solar-to-go-totally-off-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/project-in-morocco-combines-hemp-and-solar-to-go-totally-off-grid","title":{"rendered":"Project in Morocco combines hemp and solar to go totally off grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/project-in-morocco-combines-hemp-and-solar-to-go-totally-off-grid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of organizations has completed construction of a ground-breaking eco-building in Morocco that combines hemp construction with a high-tech solar energy system for total independence from the electrical grid.<\/p>\n<p>The SUNIMPLANT project, designed as a single-family dwelling, was created as an entrant in the recent \u201cSolar Decathlon\u201d organized by the United States Department of Energy and Morocco\u2019s Centre de recherche en Energie solaire et Energies nouvelles. The biannual international competition challenges teams of students to design and construct solar-powered buildings. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_Decathlon_Africa\">most recent edition<\/a> was hosted in Ben Guerir, Morocco, the first time the competition has been held on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis \u2018space-ship\u2019 is advanced in time and reflects a turn not only in North Africa but in hemp construction, which doesn\u2019t have comparable prototypes anywhere in the world,\u201d said Monika Br\u00fcmmer, a German architect and natural builder who led the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of organizations has completed construction of a ground-breaking eco-building in Morocco that combines hemp construction with a high-tech solar energy system for total independence from the electrical grid. The SUNIMPLANT project, designed as a single-family dwelling, was created as an entrant in the recent \u201cSolar Decathlon\u201d organized by the United States Department of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}