Santa Maria di Galeria - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 30 Jun 2024 22:52:14 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Santa Maria di Galeria - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 A Vatican Radio area blamed for electro-smog to become a solar farm https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/07/01/a-vatican-radio-area-blamed-for-electro-smog-to-become-a-solar-farm/ Mon, 01 Jul 2024 05:51:51 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=172625 Pope Francis decreed Wednesday that an area of northern Rome, long the source of controversy because of electromagnetic waves emitted by Vatican Radio towers, will now house a field of solar panels to fuel Vatican City. Citing the Vatican's pledge in UN climate treaties to curb carbon emissions, Francis tasked a commission of Vatican officials Read more

A Vatican Radio area blamed for electro-smog to become a solar farm... Read more]]> Pope Francis decreed Wednesday that an area of northern Rome, long the source of controversy because of electromagnetic waves emitted by Vatican Radio towers, will now house a field of solar panels to fuel Vatican City.

Citing the Vatican's pledge in UN climate treaties to curb carbon emissions, Francis tasked a commission of Vatican officials with developing the solar farm at Santa Maria di Galeria. In a decree, he said the solar energy generated would sufficiently fuel the radio operations there and the Vatican City State itself.

The 430-hectare (1,063-acre) Santa Maria di Galeria site, which enjoys extraterritorial status, was inaugurated in 1957 as a base for Vatican Radio. At the time, the pope's broadcaster transmitted Catholic and Vatican news in dozens of languages worldwide via two dozen short- and medium-wave radio antennae crowding the landscape.

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