Brockton Brightfields Micro Traditional Cache
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Brockton Brightfields Micro
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This is a Magnetic Micro Cache that is Wheel Chair accessible. It may be hard to find. It will blend it well to where it is hidden. You could do it 24/7 but best done in day time. Please watch out for muglers!!!!!
A once-polluted, this former industrial site in Brockton's just off Grove street. Laid unused for over 40 years is now the host New England's first ''Brightfields," facility for generating solar energy.
It is a 425-kilowatt array of 1,395 solar panels that have been installed across 3 acres of the old Brockton Gas Works site. The project, which should produce enough energy to power City Hall and meet a portion of the police station's energy demand, demonstrates that former industrial areas, landfills, and swaths of blighted land can be transformed into something more productive.
''There's a lot of potential for doing what Brockton is doing. . . . That's the significance of this project actually happening," said Richard Michaud, brightfields program coordinator at the US Department of Energy. Other towns and cities ''can look at it with their eyes open and think about doing this."
Brockton began working on the project over five years ago, with a federal grant that promoted economic development, renewable energy, and the cleanup of brownfields -- defined by the Environmental Protection Agency as properties whose future uses are limited by the presence of pollutants or hazardous contamination.
After the state had passed legislation to allow Brockton to build and operate the solar power facility, and the city has received grants and sought bonds to cover the project's hefty price.
In total, the solar park cost $3 million, with $2.1 million in city funds and the rest from the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust and the federal Energy Department.
The payoff, supporters say, will be considerable; the solar panels are predicted to work for more than two decades, although the city has not estimated how long it will take for the solar panels to make enough energy to pay for themselves, But sunlight -- the fuel that powers the panels -- is free, and the process will emit no carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas widely thought to play a key role in global warming.
To produce an equivalent amount of electricity by burning fossil fuels, 595,000 pounds of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere each year, roughly equivalent to the amount produced by 45 cars.
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