I would be very interested to see this Solar Energy Trees! Many trees = a Solar Energy Grove! Envision Solar has come up with a solution to the lack of real estate for solar panels, particularly is high usage areas such as downtown buildings, shopping centres, big box stores, and sports facilites, to name a few. They have come up with trees of solar panels to help decrease the energy load in an aesthetically (ahem) pleasing way that does not take up a lot of land.
Read more about Solar Groves: http://www.green-energy-news.com/arch/nrgs2007/20070098.html
The company that makes them: Envision Solar http://www.envisionsolar.com/
Hi Christie,
ReplyDeleteI work for Envision Solar, and just wanted to point out that the Solar Grove looks a little bit different than what you've posted here (although that's a great picture!). I'm not in the office right now, but using Google Images I came up with this photo online:
http://www.greengeek.ca/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/solarparkinglot.jpg
Jim Trauth
Envision Solar