Ski Village Goes Green
A small ski village in Switzerland has taken a bad situation and turned into something green. Hopefully for them in more than one way. When faced with a ski lift on its last legs, they raised the money to repair it. But, they didn’t stop there. They made it solar powered!! The square solar panels run the length of the ski lift making a really interesting sight against the white snow. Hopefully, in the long run it will save energy –and money!!
It’s more than solar-powered, in fact — it’s a smart investment. The Tenna lift generates 90,000 kilowatt hours a year, or three times the juice needed to run the lift, and the extra power goes back into the grid, which makes money for the town, which can pay residents back.
So what happens to the 82 solar “wings” when it dumps? Not a problem, because they rotate to follow the path of the sun in the sky and can be tilted to perpendicular during a storm, so there’s no load and the snow slides right off.
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