Alternative Energy

Well, here's a photo you don't see every day. It's from the University of Michigan Solar Car Team blog. At the beginning of June, the team spent a few days of practice on the actual race route in advance of next month's North American Solar Challenge. In the picture, you can't see the actual car, just one of the support vehicles (the black hybrid SUV with the #2 on it). So here's a car powered only by the sun driving down the freeway and what's passing on the left? That's a giant blade for a windmill that will soon be producing electricity. How about that!?

Red Sox Go Green

Our beloved Red Sox go green!

Fenway Park — the home of the Boston Red Sox — has installed 28 solar panels which are expected to save the park an estimated 18 tons of CO2 emissions annually. Energy generated from the project, which is being spearheaded by National Grid, will replace more than one-third of the approximately 3.1 million BTUs used for the process of heating water where the Boston Red Sox make their home, RenewableEnergyWorld reports. The maximum daily solar panel thermal energy production will be approximately 1.1 million BTUs, 37 percent of the current load.

Read more at Environmental Leader here.  Go Sox!