Vatican To Build 100 Megawatt Solar Power Plant 447
Karim Y. writes "The Vatican is going solar in a big way. The tiny state recently announced that it intends to spend 660 million dollars to create what will effectively be Europe's largest solar power plant. This massive 100 megawatt photovoltaic installation will provide enough energy to make the Vatican the first solar powered nation state in the world! 'The 100 megawatts unleashed by the station will supply about 40,000 households. That will far outstrip demand by Pope Benedict XVI and the 900 inhabitants of the 0.2 square-mile country nestled across Rome's Tiber River. The plant will cover nine times the needs of Vatican Radio, whose transmission tower is strong enough to reach 35 countries including Asia.'"
Insert joke.... (Score:5, Funny)
...about the Father, the Sun, and the Holy Ghost here.
Wow (Score:4, Funny)
Asia isn't a country. (Score:5, Funny)
Now that we've dealt with that...
Allright, Illuminati... (Score:5, Funny)
Clever idea. (Score:5, Funny)
If they need extra power on certain days, they could just have the sun stop in the sky [biblegateway.com] for a while.
Re:Just remember when you give money to the church (Score:5, Funny)
Putting Jesus through college?
Re:Insert joke.... (Score:5, Funny)
ISIAH 60:19 The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, .......(adlib) yet it shall power your many plasma screens and electric back scratcher..(/adlib)
Changing idols? (Score:3, Funny)
So it appears that the Marketing department has won once again. After ~2000 years they have decided to 'freshen things up a little'. Looks like Buddy Christ lost.
So now that the Vatican is a Solar sect, does that mean using sunblock SPF-50 is a sin?
Skin cancer the new stigmata?
Remember kids; everything old is new again, I'm just waiting for my Leisure Suits to come back into style.
Hotter'N'Hell (Score:4, Funny)
God got tired of Satan bragging about his "all naturally-environmentally-powered controlled climate system" so he upped the ante a bit.
Too much sun (Score:3, Funny)
Whew, thanks for the correction.
What a dreadful mistake! (Score:5, Funny)
Regards,
Sarah P.
Mod parent -1 heretic (Score:3, Funny)
Why else did God set the Sun in orbit around the Earth?
Re:Asia... (Score:2, Funny)
...is not a country.
Thankyou! Nor is South-East Asia a state. I know - I can see it from my balcony.
No, this isn't a job for the Trinity (Score:3, Funny)
E pur si muove? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Asia isn't a country. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Insert joke.... (Score:5, Funny)
No, no, no. The correct joke is:
This gives new meaning to the phrase "For thine is the kingdom and the power...."
The good, the bad, the ugly. (Score:3, Funny)
Damnit, there goes the production capacity of Nanosolar Inc. for ANOTHER two years. Cheap solar cell retail availability gets shooooved to the right to ------> 2012.
<Godwin>First those damn Germans bought up all their production, attempting to perpetuate their Fourth Reich!<tinfoilhat>Now it's a conspiracy to preempt and prevent micro-generation!</tinfoilhat></Godwin>
Death Star (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, with the pope's uncanny resemblance to Emperor Palpatine, I can't resist the thought of hearing, upon completion of the 100 MegaWatt facility, the words: "NOW YOU WILL WITNESS THE POWER OF THIS FULLY OPERATIONAL BATTLE STATION!"...
Re:Insert joke.... (Score:5, Funny)
Larry Ellison is God?
Re:No, this isn't a job for the Trinity (Score:3, Funny)
The three of us that know what you're talking about agree.
666 million dollars (Score:5, Funny)
> The Vatican is going solar in a big way. The tiny state recently announced that it intends to spend 660 million dollars to create what will effectively be Europe's largest solar power plant.
For only 6 million dollars more they can add an option to generate power from the conversion of pure evil.
Re:Just remember when you give money to the church (Score:5, Funny)
This is the Vatican we're talking about. What the hell are you doing telling them 'there's no proof of this'? It's never stopped them before.
Re:Asia isn't a country. (Score:5, Funny)
It's only an awesome band if you're a 40 year old virgin...
I really don't see how that's relevant to discussions of the vatican's... wait... I see it now.
Vatican to build power plant running on guilt (Score:5, Funny)
BOLGIAS 8 AND 9, Rome, Monday — The Vatican intends to build the biggest renewable energy plant in Europe, running solely on guilt [today.com].
"Now is the time to strike," said Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, governor of Vatican City. "The financial crisis has unleashed huge and renewable sources of guilt, which in the long run will reap incomparable rewards for the Church."
Italy has a binding target for renewable energy consumption of 17 percent. The Vatican will export energy to Italy, powered by raw guilt from the largely Catholic populace. "So far it's proven indefinitely renewable."
Pope Benedict XVI has been outspoken on environmental issues. "The destruction of the environment, its improper or selfish use and the violent hoarding of the Earth's resources cause grievances, conflicts and wars, precisely because they are the consequences of an inhumane concept of development. You should FEEL BAD about that. And give us money."
The plant will be topped up at night by Dante-esque treadmills walked by priests sent back for kiddy-fiddling. "We feel terrible, terrible," said Fr O'Pederast. "I mean, we got caught."
Private hotline (Score:4, Funny)
HOT AIR (Score:4, Funny)
Re:HOT AIR (Score:5, Funny)
No, no, no... this is the Vatican we're talking about here. You're thinking of D.C.
Re:Insert joke.... (Score:3, Funny)
Now I have a mental image of the Pope raising a solar panel above his head and saying "I HAVE THE POOOOOWER!" (Yes, my brain is fried and I'm mixing the Pope up with He-Man. Obviously my brain needs sleep. Of course, it would be much more fun to sleep deprive it a bit more and see what else pops up.)
Re:Don't think jupiter would do much. (Score:5, Funny)
Not yet... :)
Re:Insert joke.... (Score:3, Funny)
This is why the Oracle said to buy Sun!
Re:Asia isn't a country. (Score:5, Funny)
The Sun doesn't go around the Earth either, but hey it took them 400 years to correct that one.
Re:Wow (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Insert joke.... (Score:3, Funny)
Pope Benedict harnesses Sun. Oracle Buys Sun [slashdot.org]
Larry Ellison is God?
You know what the difference is between God and Larry Ellison?
God doesn't think he is Larry Ellison.
Re:HOT AIR (Score:2, Funny)
You forget that Vatican actually IS a colony of homosexsuals...