There's a story in this somewhere

[ksmith]

Maybe with vampires, maybe not.

MADRID, Spain – 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.

Flat, open and sun-drenched land is so scarce in Santa Coloma that the graveyard was just about the only viable spot to move ahead with its solar energy program.

In row after row of gleaming, blue-gray, the panels rest on mausoleums holding five layers of coffins, many of them marked with bouquets of fake flowers. The panels face almost due south, which is good for soaking up sunshine, and started working on Wednesday — the culmination of a project that began three years ago.

There's something here. I can't put my finger on it--maybe someone else can.

Comments

[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking solar zombies with burning eyes. :)

[lisamantchev.livejournal.com]

The harvested energy should be channeled into animating the dead!!!

*ahem*

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

It's well known in the ghost hunting community that when there's paranormal activity in a home or other location, it's not uncommon for battery-run items like cameras, cell phones and so on, to be completely drained of energy as activity escalates. The theory is that spirits suck the energy in order to manifest. It happens often enough that it's almost become the conventional wisdom on a place's susceptibility to activity.

That being the case, it seems to me this site should start howling with the spirits of the dead in fairly short order. I'd love to see a short story where some ghost hunters go to such a place and end up having intelligent conversations with the dead...and there's the title. :-)

I think maybe I need to write this....

[pbray.livejournal.com]

I don't know why, but it reminds me a bit of The Matrix movies, with humans serving as the batteries of the future.

Although it does bring a new meaning to Catholic funeral prayer that includes the line "And let perpetual light shine upon them."

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

I love human ingenuity.

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

I went right there! "I give this creature LIFE!!!!"