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California raceway gets 1,600 solar panels

June 30th, 2011        

California raceway gets 1,600 solar panels

We all love solar power, not because it’s environmentally friendly, but it saves us some bucks. Well as far as sports go, the one where you drive cars around in circles several times is likely not one of the most energy efficient. With that in mind, it’s nice to see locations like Northern California’s Infineon Raceway working toward sustainability, announcing this week the installation of more than 1,600 solar panels. The panels, manufactured by Panasonic, will provide around 41-percent of the Infineon’s energy usage. Also on its list of earth-friendly features: a solar-powered billboard and 3,000 sheep, which take care of a lot of the lawn mowing on the grounds and apparently aren’t of the electric variety. Now, the next step is to turn solar panels cheap so that everyone will fix it on their house’s roof.

SOURCE via Inhabitat

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