Green Man Neon Solar Array Planted on Local Hospital
Here’s an amazing success story straight out of Green Man:
Burning Man sponsor’s project is energy plan worth emulating
Burning Man organizers and volunteers are setting a wonderful example with their gift of solar panels to Lovelock’s Pershing General Hospital and to Gerlach schools. The group is acting on justifiable concern for the environment. They’re also working smart by creating this partnership with the hospital and the general community to encourage the manufacture and use of renewable energy technology.
On its face, the gift of solar panels used to power the neon under The Man at the annual Burning Man festival seems a small thing. The implications, however, are huge. This project will generate 60,000 kilowatt hours of electricity a year and savings of about $130,000. The panels should supply about half the hospital’s needs for the next 20 years.
Special thanks to all of those involved in such good work! It truly is a gift that keeps on giving.
