Gallery: SunFlowers, An Electric Garden

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billdale

from Los Angeles, CA

The solar panels are designed to face the sun, as they should, but it appears the lights that form the "flowers" face upward as well, making them impractical and inefficient. The lights should be on the underside of the panels for the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists.

This looks great and looks very familiar with a project in the Netherlands, the first Sun-Forrest in the World:

http://tinyurl.com/nxqx5t

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Milieunet Foundation is a non-profit organisation focused on awareness and change of behaviour by means of communication about waste, energy, sustainability, nature, environment, climate, human rights and international development cooperation.

No, this is located on IH-35 from Minnesota to Mexico and the DPS does not want a two-way viewing distraction for cars, and heavy trucks.
The essence and nature of the project is what lies behind. An upscale shopping area and DELL'S new Childrens Hospital.

Marc Stewart
Austin, TX.

i would love to have one of those in my back yard

I think this is great becaus it gets the people intrested in green technology and pehaps could lead to more efficient design by getting people to think and inovate and consider the soceitital implications of embracing green technology pehaps if there were sesnors(equatorial mounts) to change the position of the flowers as used in solar thermal power plants to absorb more of the sun.



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