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plentonimus
24.11.08, 00:32
A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change. Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a gritty, working-class town outside Barcelona, has placed a sea of solar panels atop mausoleums at its cemetery, transforming a place of perpetual rest into one buzzing with renewable energy.

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Quite exceptional, but also controversial - although I don't have a problem with a electricity producing graveyard, I ask my self if they didn't had another place for this.