Green Baseball
Any discussion of Major League Baseball that includes the word “green” usually means one thing – money. In the SF Giants case, though, it means using solar energy. A solar farm incorporating 590 Sharp Corp. panels was installed before San Francisco’s AT&T park hosted the All-Star game. The installation was reported to cost about $1.5 million to be funded by 15 million PG&E customers since the panels are on their grid. The total power available is about 120kW.
Obviously, Mark LaPedus was onto this story a long time ago. But I am adopting the excuse that Barry Bonds will be breaking Hank Aaron’s home run record imminently. Therefore, this news is still very topical.
So even if Barry Bonds isn’t clean, a portion of the power for the Giants’ ballpark is.