If you want to talk about something that qualifies as impressive, consider what a team of students from the Massachusetts College of Art and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell have teamed to accomplish: They worked together to design a solar powered home that is so energy efficiency it takes only a hair dryer to heat it, the Boston Herald reports.

The students worked together to design a house that will compete against groups of other students from around the country in the "2011 Solar Decathlon." Mass Art senior Spencer Culhane served as the project manager for the group and told the newspaper their solar home is considerably more energy efficient than the standard home.

"Our house uses 90 percent less energy for heating and cooling than a conventional house does," Culhane affirmed. The biannual Solar Decathlon tasks teams from around the country with building homes that offer typical comforts, run exclusively on green energies and cost roughly $250,000 to construct.

The home derives its energy from a solar panel system on its roof and will compete this summer against other homes in Washington D.C. According to the team, they've been working on the home's design for over two years.