'Solar trees' sprout up in California county's parking lots
Sunday, August 28, 2011 - 13:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The frustrating search for a shady spot to park is about to get easier. But the new trees being planted at nine big parking lots in the San Jose, Calif., area aren't leafy green saplings, they're big silver specimens with 12-foot-tall trunks and broad steel canopies that will shield cars from the sun - and produce solar power.
