National Parks to Install Solar from South Pacific to N.Y. City

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://sunpluggers.com/2010/03/national-parks-to-install-solar-from-south-pacific-to-new-york-city-000115.php

National Parks to Install Solar from South Pacific to N.Y. City

Published March 6, 2010

The National Park Service is planning to install solar photovoltaic arrays at numerous sites this year, from Alcatraz Island in California, to the Gateway National Recreation Area in New York, to Saipan in the South Pacific.

Funding for the solar installations, as well as for many other park repairs and upgrades, will come from $129 million in savings from large construction projects approved under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that cost less than expected, officials said.

At Alcatraz, site of the notorious prison, solar PV modules are to be installed on the main prison building and a laundry building and will replace electricity now produced by diesel generators. At Gateway, adjacent to New York City, the park service plans to install solar photovoltaic systems at five Sandy Hook Beach centers.

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Except for an inverter replacement at one park, the projects are all new installations. Many other National Park Service sites already have solar photovoltaic arrays.

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. Great!!! jobs and energy savings...

[Alameda]

2. Way cool....for jobs and the earth!

[liberal N proud]

3. K&R

[rhett o rick]

4. Made in America? nt

[Historic NY]

6. Yeah most likely at Otisville Federal Correctional

http://www.pv-tech.org/news/_a/spire_to_supply_solar_cells_worth_54_million_to_federal_correctional_instit/

they produce them for Federal facilities and its the highest paying job in any prison industry.

[rhett o rick]

9. There you go. Want a job, go to prison. nt

[Historic NY]

10. They actually have a waiting list for doing the job....

the prison Warden and her staff is very active in the community. They have groups in for luncheon and tours.

[bcool]

5. ..and then a Repub president gets in and...

...removes them all, like Reagan did with the solar panels Jimmy Carter installed on the White House roof.

[NNadir]

7. Great! More toxic stuff to go with all the asphalt. I wonder if they'll have "green" electric

snowmobiles in Yellowstone powered by toxic solar cells buried under snow drifts.

[kristopher]

8. .

http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/revsolglobwarmairpol.htm

[XemaSab]

11. The Dry Tortugas is site #1 in my book

The generator kept me up the WHOLE DAMN NIGHT. x(