In 12 days the students have now become the professors.  Educating the masses on how being conservative in they way they built and being efficient in their energy use would help them out in the long run.

The 12 days of the Minnesota State Fair were filled with explaining the way that the passive house worked and trying to educate those who were so convinced that it would not work.  I think repetition would also be another word that would describe the experience among a few others of course.  The state fair was a multitude of what are the rocks for? How does the house heat itself in the winter?  How do the windows work?  Can you retrofit any of this in an existing house?  How much does it cost to build, compared to a typical house?  Will you explain everything to me?  These were just a few of the questions that were asked on a regular basis by almost everyone who walked through the house.  It was an experience that will for ever change the way that I think about building things and the way that you can reuse and recycle materials to do so.