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Spanish City Installs Solar Panels on Sun-Soaking Cemetery

Posted November 24, 2008 9:44 AM

From BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition:

A city in north-eastern Spain installs solar panels at its main cemetery in a move to generate power for homes. Santa Coloma de Gramanet, near Barcelona, has placed 462 solar panels over its multi-storey mausoleums. Officials say the scheme was initially greeted with derision, but families who use the cemetery eventually supported the idea following a public campaign.

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11/29/2008 10:33 PM

Shades of the dear departed, indeed.

Power for 60 houses, from 462 solar panels - it does make you think.

And a weekly wash for those panels, to keep the dust and bird droppings off them, gives a job for someone.

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Re: Spanish City Installs Solar Panels on Sun-Soaking Cemetery

10/20/2010 11:40 AM

Hello I am from France, and I think that it's a great thing that in Europe the gorvements spend many time and money to the green energy. I have my own solar systeme and I need actually new terminal blocks, I saw that they had great and unexpensive on the website Sunelec.com, dose anyody had already work with theim?
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