{"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":"

The holidays would not be complete with an article about solar powered Christmas trees. Last year I was writing about 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

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

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

And, third, perhaps the most well-known Christmas tree, the one at 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

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":"

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. […]<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t