Solar panels on graves give power to Spanish town

Working Class Patriot · Nov 23, 2008

A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change. Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a gritty, working-class town outside Barcelona, has placed a sea of solar panels atop mausoleums at its cemetery, transforming a place of perpetual rest into one buzzing with renewable energy.
Flat, open and sun-drenched land is so scarce in Santa Coloma that the graveyard was just about the only viable spot to move ahead with its solar energy program.
The power the 462 panels produces equivalent to the yearly use by 60 homes flows into the local energy grid for normal consumption and is one community's odd nod to the fight against global warming.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081123/ap_on_re_eu/eu_spain_solar_cemetery

beehive · Nov 23, 2008

See, even the deceased are crying out to fight global warming!!

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