From The Array To The Dining Hall - The Antioch Word Looks At The Life Cycle Of The Solar Sheep

WYSO | By Ellie Burck

Published January 2, 2016 at 1:48 PM EST

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Antioch's 'solar sheep' moving in a line formation, chomping and chewing on tufts of tall grass around acres of solar array panels over the summer

At Antioch College, there are solar array fields with solar panels that soak up the sun and convert it to energy for the college to use. These have been around for a couple of years, and have worked extremely well for the college. For a few years on the Antioch College Farm, sheep have been raised for meat for consumption in the dining halls. This year, Antioch College implemented a new program where they combined these two things together, the solar array and the sheep, to make a pilot program to cut down on fossil fuel emissions.

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