US gets first solar-powered cinema

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Rooftop panel expected to offset more than two million pounds of CO2

A movie theatre in Fairfax, California is the first US multiplex cinema to take advantage of solar power, its owners claim. Cinema West, owners of the Fairfax 5 Theaters cinema complex, have fitted...

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