{"id":211,"date":"2008-12-12T15:38:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T23:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2021-07-09T13:36:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T21:36:20","slug":"solar-powered-christmas-trees-light-up-the-silent-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/solar-energy\/solar-powered-christmas-trees-light-up-the-silent-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar-Powered Christmas Trees Light Up the Silent Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays would not be complete with an article about solar powered Christmas trees. Last year I was writing about <a title=\"LED Christmas lights\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/energy-conservation\/led-christmas-lights-for-a-green-holiday-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LED Christmas lights<\/a> saving energy on trees and in 2006 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was lighting up a fuel cell Christmas tree in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>But, this year several locations have gone the solar tree route. First, in the Philippines, Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes powered on a 40-foot Christmas tree powered by solar energy. The switching on of the solar tree is part of the SWITCH 3 Light-A-Million-Homes program.<\/p>\n<p>Second, in Boone, North Carolina 150 showed up on 20-degree weather for the lighting of the town\u2019s solar Christmas tree. The event was organized by the Appalachian State University Sustainable Energy Society.<\/p>\n<p>And, third, perhaps the most well-known Christmas tree, the one at <a title=\"Rockefeller Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/07\/nyregion\/long-island\/07treeli.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rockefeller Center<\/a> in New York is also powered by solar energy. This world-famous tree stands 72-feet tall with 30,000 lights upon it. The lighting event this year featured Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles, Rosie O\u2019Donnell, Tony Bennett and Al Roker.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I suppose if you are going to go to the time, trouble and expense to light a large Christmas tree, then doing it as greenly and economically would be the way to go. But, doesn\u2019t it seem a bit ironic to cut down nature\u2019s solar collector (a tree) just to power it by sunlight once again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays would not be complete with an article about solar powered Christmas trees. Last year I was writing about LED Christmas lights saving energy on trees and in 2006 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was lighting up a fuel cell Christmas tree in Sacramento. But, this year several locations have gone the solar tree route. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-energy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}