Posted on 04/04/2016 5:13:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The island of Juist off Germany’s North Sea coast is testing out a new idea for alternative energy: self-sufficient wind-powered street lamps, which could be a model even for developing countries.
The blustery shores of Juist in the North Sea certainly have no shortage of wind, which has given the island reason to launch a new energy-saving pilot project.
In the next two weeks, the island will be setting up the first wind-powered street light created by a designer based in Schleswig-Holstein, Peer Langemak, a spokesman from Juist told The Local on Monday.
Langemak and his team “noordforce” spent a year and a half developing the lamps after the designer noticed how many sparsely-populated towns still lacked proper public lighting. But these towns also had long periods of little sunlight, like in the North, a spokesperson from noord force told The Local. …
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They gonna hook them up to their politicians’ mouths?
They may actually get an honest days’ work out of them yet.
This is their second attempt at using alternative energy for this purpose. The first attempt, solar powered lamps did not work out so well.
The Muslims will provide occasional bright bursts of light from explosives.
Yeah great idea for poor developing countries except for the tiny issue that they cost like 10x’s more than regular lights....
"Zey vere fine zo long ass ze zun vass shining!" OK, Plan B...
If you look at the solar collectors for street lamps...it was roughly a 1 by 1 foot panel. Maybe if it’d shined everyday....there’d be enough juice on that small of a panel. Realistically, It probably should have been a 3 x 3 foot panel but the wind would have shaken the pole so much that it probably would have eventually fallen over.
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