NASA Sustainability Base is a building at the

Ames Research Center The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) labo ...

in Mountain View, California that was designed to exhibit and test the latest energy-saving technologies as part of the federal government's drive to eliminate fossil-fuel consumption in all new government buildings by 2030. The building was not initially conceived as a "sustainability base", but associate director Steven Zornestzer worked with architect

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to create an energy-efficient building for the 21st century. Energy-saving features include

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fuel cell A fuel cell is an electrochemical cell that converts the chemical energy of a fuel (often hydrogen fuel, hydrogen) and an oxidizing agent (often oxygen) into electricity through a pair of redox reactions. Fuel cells are different from most bat ...

electricity generation, natural lighting,

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, and a geothermal well system.Tiffany Hsu - NASA's Sustainability Base generates buzz for its eco-friendly architecture (2011) - LA Times
/ref> Also, the building had normal budget and actually a shorter than normal production time.

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NASA's First Space Station on Earth: A Look Inside the Sustainability Base
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