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kristopher

(29,798 posts)
Sat Apr 7, 2012, 07:34 PM Apr 2012

Taking Solar and Wind Out to the Ballgame

Taking Solar and Wind Out to the Ballgame
Major League Baseball is increasingly turning to distributed generation.

HERMAN K. TRABISH: APRIL 5, 2012

With new solar and wind installations at two of its ballparks, Major League Baseball opens the 2012 season showing America the national pastime is still at the vanguard of social and technological change.

Baseball was the first sport to play under lights, break the color line, pioneer live television broadcasts, end restrictive player-management relations, and lead the way into Latin America and Asia. Now it is swinging for the fences by driving the shift toward distributed renewables.

In the last few years...


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