Spanish City Sets Up Solar Cemetery

A Spanish city has found an unusual place to generate renewable energy — solar panels in the cemetery. Santa Coloma de Gramanet has installed 462 solar panels over its multi-story mausoleums. The plan was met with some derision at first, but thanks to a successful marketing campaign, the solar cemetery has public support. It has been such a success that there are already plans to install more panels in an effort to triple the amount of power generated. The installation cost 720,000 euros (£608,000) but will keep about 62 tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere every year, said Esteve Serret, a director of Conste-Live Energy, the company that runs the cemetery and also works in renewable energy. I'm sure a solar powered zombie movie is already in the works.

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Aw, c'mon

[Captain Splendid]

I'm sure a solar powered zombie movie is already in the works.

Yeah, but I'm sure they'll figure out a way to incorporate the solar panels into weapons. Zombie BBQ!

Re:Aw, c'mon

[Anonymous Coward]

the first (and so far only) post redundant?

they will give mod points out to anyone here

Re:Aw, c'mon

[troll8901]

It's called "Zom-Be-Que". In place of sunlight, you can also use pyrotechnic flares, through the sparks don't last long.

I also heard that another cemetery (burial site) is incorporating dynamos for generating clean energy. Not sure how they power the generators, though.

Doubly green

[Roland Piquepaille]

will keep about 62 tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere every year

And the residents also cut their CO2 footprint by about 2 tons per year, simply by not breathing.

Sounds like

[Chuck Chunder]

a good use of otherwise dead space.