Solar Home at Tellus Museum Cartersville GA

I my family trip to the Tellus Museum of Natural History, Science, and Technology in Cartersville GA I encountered an interesting exhibit.  A completely solar-powered  home. This model of a home was only about roughly 800 square feet but it was a look into the future.  The home was covered in solar modules from the roof to the front walls.  The home electrical was highly efficient only using high efficiency appliances and lightling.  The lights were all power saving light emitting diodes, the tv was LCD, although not as energy efficient as LED tv's it's a far cry from CRT tv's like the one I own.  The home was powered by what looked like a 48vdc battery bank of 16 batteries.  There were 27 panels on the roof and black panels on the front wall.  I would guess of about 150VA each for a total of about 4050 on the roof and about an additional 300VA from the front wall making it 4350VA (estimate).  The panel arrays mounted outside on poles looked to have 280VA x 4 arrays of 1120.  Of these there were two.  I'm not sure if these are connected to the home's circuit or they provide night time lighting for the outside, but if so the total power available to the small model home is about 6590VA.  This is way lower than what an average home requires about 27000VA, but this is no average home.  The AC and water heater are high efficiency and the water heater is not electric, it is solar.  It heats the water with sun rays even in the winter.  This is a must see destination for those interested in solar power and knowing the possibilities that solar energy offers for residential applications.  Check out my pics.