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While I’ll openly admit that I’m not a “green” person and I normally don’t follow or like to read about the green things that people are doing. Sure, I think it’s good to be nice to the environment. However, I guess I’ve just seen too many “green” things that don’t really do anything.

Ok, so now that I declared my point of view openly, I must admit that I found the BP Solar Decathlon to be absolutely fascinating. Although, not because it’s green. Probably because I absolutely love technology. I’ve watched something similar to this on TV one time. While I was happy that technology was able to help the environment, I must admit that I was even more interested in seeing how this technology (that was environmentally conscious) could also help me and the US to have renewable energy supplies which would continue to lower costs. I’ll be the first to admit that the idea of Hydrogen power is completely fascinating and I can’t wait until it or some other technology frees us from the grips of the oil giants.

What an impressive list of universities that are involved from all over the world. I think these events in college are quite amazing and really show the great sacrifices that students will often make during college. It utterly amazes me.

I also think it’s cool that BP is a sponsor of the event. Sure, it definitely seems like a PR move for BP, but I don’t care about why they do it. I care more about the fact that they are doing good. I’ll give them props for really trying to do things like this. Of course, I’m sure they want to be part of it so that if someone does break the energy technology barrier, then they’ll want to be apart of it.

Either way, it looks like a very interesting event and I hope that the BP Solar Decathalon blog is updated frequently with what’s happening. I love following events through blogs.