Posts Tagged ‘solar panels’

L.B. AIRPORT GOES OFF THE GRID

March 14, 2008

It’s official: the Long Beach Airport is generating electricity now, thanks to solar power. Thanks, solar power! (Call us back when they start making their own whiskey.)
As the Press-Telegram’s Karen Robes reports, yesterday was throw-the-switch day on six “trees” of solar panels which follow the sun–rotating 15 degrees after it, every hour.
The set-up is supposed [...]

 

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