NASA’s Ames Research Center broke ground this week on what it hopes will be the greenest government structure in the United States: a high-performance office building with zero net energy consumption and a $20.6 million price tag. It should be completed by the end of 2011. The 50,000-square-foot “Sustainability Base” is expected to showcase the agency’s innovations originally intended to support human and robotic space exploration, such as sensor technology developed for NASA missions that w
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