Green

Pacific Park, Santa Monica has spent $1.5 million dollars on this eco-friendly ferris wheel, making it the first solar powered ferris wheel in the world. You may have seen the ferris wheel it replaced. (The original wheel was sold on EBay for $132,400)

“Forever in the celebrity spotlight, the Pacific Wheel has a very impressive list of credits with appearances in more than 105 photo shoots, 71 television commercials, 69 television shows, 28 feature films and 13 music videos,” (Jeff Klocke, director of marketing and sales at Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier).

Santa Monica is located in Southern California, and we all know that in The O.C. (TV show) it rained all of about once. SoCal has an abundance of sunlight so Pacific Park is using solar panels to generate more than 71,000-kilowatt hour of renewable photovoltic (PV) power from the sun, and when it’s cloudy they just use conventional energy. More than 160,000 energy-efficient LED lights are used to save power and to complement the solar-power application.

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Filed under: Main on June 1st, 2008