Vertography » seating http://blog.vertography.com Simplifying the green life Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:11:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Solar Seating http://blog.vertography.com/2008/09/30/solar-seating/ http://blog.vertography.com/2008/09/30/solar-seating/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:00:34 +0000 john http://blog.vertography.com/?p=326 While walking through Venice, we noticed an unusual looking public bench being installed. Looking somewhat out of place amongst the very old buildings, this bench has a number of metal stalks coming out from its center and reaching towards the sky. On the top of each of these stalks is installed a small solar panel.

I have no idea what these solar panels are going to be used to power. If I had to guess, I would say that there are batteries under the seating and the power will be used to provide lighting after dark. The lower one of the two collectors in the close-up shot looks like it might have a light fitting there. And if it is light the rest of the Venetian public lighting we saw, it will be using CFL, or perhaps another low power technology (perhaps LEDs).

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