There is a huge international effort to “go green” (that’s my favorite saying, I use it all the time). Here in the United States, we are buying baseball team-themed garden gnomes. Almost as impressive, the Taiwanese government has built a stadium that generates its own solar power.

Toyo Ito’s design negates this energy drain with a stunning 14,155 sq meter solar roof that is able to provide enough energy to power the stadium’s 3,300 lights and two jumbo vision screens. To illustrate the incredible power of this system, officials ran a test this January and found that it took just six minutes to power up the stadium’s entire lighting system!

The article reports that in addition to supplying its own energy requirements, the World Games Stadium will also provide the surrounding neighborhood with 80 percent of its power usage. Now when I first read this, I was a little skeptical; some experts have claimed that solar panels are so expensive that solar power isn’t a viable large-scale energy solution yet.

Here, though, is where the logistics of the stadium really get fascinating. Read on.

The Daily Mail reports that the stadium seats 55,000 fans. And from Weird Asia News:

Not surprisingly, such a beast is costly to feed. The stadium’s pioneering features called for more than the usual amount of testing and research, resulting in a price tag of $150 million.

Dudes! $150 million? The Yankees (sorry to be predictable) just spent ten times as much money — $1.5 billion — to build a stadium that seats less people (52,325), and it sure as hell doesn’t generate its own energy and enough extra energy to power half of the Bronx. I’m having trouble accepting that this stadium really only cost $150 million, but this same figure is repeated by plenty of other sources, so at this point I’m buying it.

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Hey, you know what you really want to read about in the last hour of your day before you get out early for Thanksgiving? Yes: The Jets and Giants.

Everyone is getting all crazy excited about the possibility of an all-New York Super Bowl — and man, wouldn’t the rest of the country just love that — but wait a second, don’t these team play in the same stadium in New Jersey? What’s going to happen if they both host the championship round of the playoffs? They couldn’t possibly have two games in two days, could they?

Well, thankfully Roger Goodell is already one step ahead of the game:

Per ESPN’s SportsCenter, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told WFAN radio on Tuesday that, if the Jets and the Giants both host the championship games for their respective conferences, one game would be played on Sunday night, and the other game would be played on Monday night.

It makes senses; there’s no way that both games could be played on the same day.  And with two weeks until the Super Bowl, there’s no real advantage or disadvantage to playing on Sunday or on Monday.

Phew. I’m glad this is all figured out because I wouldn’t have been able to eat my turkey or anything tomorrow without it being resolved.