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	Vatican to Build Europe’s Largest Solar Power Plant

infidel70

4-20-2009 4:13 PM

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4-20-2009 9:14 PM

amgumen

They are going to change the Earth's albedo

4-21-2009 12:01 AM

Efrain Alvarado

The Vatican is also preparing nuclear "energy", btw!!!: http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2009/04/project-holy-fire-going-rogue.html

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fb081234-34ee-4553-963f-29a7adec5a83/D768270D-C919-4448-953D-C092EA6B259B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/20/vatican-to-build-europes-largest-solar-power-plant/" href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/20/vatican-to-build-europes-largest-solar-power-plant/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.inhabitat.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/20/vatican-to-build-europes-largest-solar-power-plant/"><P><IMG width="537" height="357" alt="solar powered vatican, sustainable design, green design, renewable energy, europe's largest solar plant, solar power, photovoltaic panels, green pope, alternative energy" src="http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/vaticansolar-ed1.jpg" title="vatican" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-24912" /></p> <P>The <A href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/12/08/vatican-solar-array-goes-live/">Vatican</A> is going solar in a big way. The smallest country in the world recently announced that it intends to spend 660 million dollars to create what will effectively be Europe’s largest <A href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/01/06/china-announces-worlds-largest-solar-plant/">solar power plant</A>. This massive 100 megawatt <A href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/01/21/masdar-begins-construction-on-10mw-solar-power-plant/">photovoltaic installation</A> will provide enough energy to make the Vatican the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601130&sid=aN2RJ9ob3OoY&refer=environment">first solar powered nation state</A> in the world!</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/20/vatican-to-build-europes-largest-solar-power-plant/"><P><IMG width="537" height="357" alt="solar powered vatican, sustainable design, green design, renewable energy, europe's largest solar plant, solar power, photovoltaic panels, green pope, alternative energy" src="http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/vaticansolar-ed2.jpg" title="vatican" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-24912" /></p> <P>The Vatican is not exactly a large state, so its proposed <A href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/02/25/world%E2%80%99s-largest-solar-power-plant-coming-to-arizona-in-2011/">solar plant</A> will generate enough energy to power all of its 40,000 households.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/20/vatican-to-build-europes-largest-solar-power-plant/"><P> It is contemplating using an <A href="http://www.inhabitat.com/tag/electric-vehicle/">electric</A> popemobile, the Vatican cafeteria will soon be decked with a <A href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/01/15/passive-houses-in-germany/">solar heating system</A> to provide heating and cooling, and even the Pope’s summer residence is being fitted out to get power from the <A href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/03/13/poop-power-giant-vat-of-crap-to-produce-natural-gas-for-ca/">methane</A> generated by the horse stables. 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