[FEL-L] Texas - Zoo's lion den goes green 4-21-08

[Tim Stoffel]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 06:55 -0400, BigCatSimba at aol.com wrote:
>   
> Texas - Zoo's lion den goes green
> 
> Houston Business Journal - by Greg Barr Reporter
> The first solar array to power a zoo exhibit in Texas will be switched
> on in Houston on April 22. 
> 
> The Houston Zoo and Green Mountain Energy Co. have installed the
> $64,000 solar power system at the zoo's African lion exhibit. 
> 
> To celebrate Earth Day, children from Rosehill Christian School will
> flip an honorary electric switch to mark the change to the new power
> source. 
> 
> Zoo officials estimate the solar array will produce 8,188 kilowatts of
> electricity a year and will prevent 15,639 pounds of carbon dioxide
> from entering the atmosphere. 
> 
I for the life of me can't figure out what lions would do with 8.1 MW of
electric power per year.

;-)
Tim Stoffel