• Larry Hagman to promote solar energy in SolarWorld advertisement

  • 5.jpgAn oil baron probably wouldn’t support a green cause, like the promotion of solar energy, unless he really had a green heart. Well, if you do remember the scheming oil baron from Texas on the television show “Dallas”, here’s news for you. The actor, Larry Hagman chooses to play J. R. in an advertising campaign now that will promote SolarWorld, a German photovoltaic module maker, and solar energy too. The commercial has Hagman speak about his switch to solar energy, with him walking past a portrait of J. R. in younger days and a TV showing images of an offshore oil rig and blackened waters, probably a news report on the Gulf disaster.


    That’s just a commercial. But the man is green all the way home. Hagman installed a 94-kilowatt solar system at his estate in the Southern California town of Ojai, costing the 78-year old around $750,000 with a $310,000 rebate. Maybe Montgomery Burns from the Simpsons should shut down his nuclear plant and switch on to solar powered one too!
    [nytimes]