Link: http://www.sustainablemilton.org/TheCube.html

Here is what one ton of carbon looks like. Now stack thirteen of these together and that is the volume of carbon that the PEMCO roof has saved from being released into the atmosphere since the Solar Pie roof was installed.

Link: http://www.energyrace.com/commentary/what_does_a_ton_of_co2_look_like/

What difference can one solar roof make in the world? Last night the PEMCO Solar Pie roof broadcast that twelve tons of carbon had not been released into our shared airspace. TWELVE TONS? What does that mean for you and me? What does that look like? Why does that matter?

We thought we would take a minute to reflect on that.

How do we quantify the good that a Solar Pie solar roof produces? How do we get our arms around the volume of carbon not being released into the atmosphere?

Dave Ames a science teacher at Cohasset High School in Cohasset, MA set out to demonstrate what a ton of carbon looks like. In 2007 Dave Ames along with his 9th grade physics class built a cube 27 feet wide by 27 feet high by 27 feet deep. One ton of carbon would fill this cube.

Just imagine how big a cube we would need to hold twelve tons of carbon. Try to visualize a cube 324 feet wide by 324 feet high by 324 feet deep filled with carbon. That is the amount not being released into our atmosphere, in our neighborhoods, not being washed into our waterways.

That is the power of Solar Pie thirty-six panel roof on top of the PEMCO building.

Way to go PEMCO. It's all good.

May seventh was a red letter day for Solar Pie. After working with Judy Andrews our non-profit attorney we completed and filed our IRS Form 1023 to become a tax-exempt non-profit.

We are anxiously awaiting IRS approval of our application to become a 501(c)3.

Scott Guiterrez the Seattle PI Transportation blogger
wrote about the new information being broadcast on the PEMCO clock.

Read all about the very first Solar Pie project sitting atop the PEMCO building.

Bravo for the Seattle Sketcher capturing the record breaking temperture last week as it was displayed on the "Iconic PEMCO Clock" . The gift of the current time and temperture readings is appreciated by all of us who live in the Seattle area.

The PEMCO Clock is truly a touchstone for so many of us in the Emerald City. A dear friend of ours spent thirty years working at Harborview hospital saving lives in the ICU. She said she could always gauge whether she was running early or late for work by checking the time on the PEMCO clock.

PEMCO has partnered with Solar Pie to install the first Solar Pie roof on the top of this very building. PEMCO is giving the entire region a gift by not only installing the first Solar Pie solar roof but by allowing the real time production metrics to be broadcast from this wonderful "Iconic PEMCO Clock".

We look forward to our official launch Wednesday, September 2nd. On September 2nd, the clock will begin broadcasting the real time solar production from the Solar Pie solar roof on top of the PEMCO building.

Our hope is that everyone who looks to this "Iconic PEMCO Clock" for time and temperture will enjoy seeing the Solar Pie roof production metrics.