Thursday 19 July 2012

Beautifully Designed Solar Trees

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Designed by Welsh designer Ross Lovegrove and manufactured by Artemide, Solar Tree is an urban lighting system. This futuristic design uses panels and LED lighting units to provide environmentally friendly illumination powered by solar energy.

The plant-like structure is made of twenty steel pipes, which resemble plant stems and grass. Six of the pipes support solar panels, four support large lights, and ten grass-like stalks are topped with LED lights. All of the steel pipes are connected to 38 solar cells that are in turn connected to a battery system and to an electronic device hidden in the base.

1 comment(s):

Ladybelle said...

I love the beauty of these. It would be amazing if more cities would move to something like this to not only save energy, but also bring the beauty of nature to urban areas.

It would be great if you had a way to easily share individual posts onto facebook and other social media. There are times I want to pass something like this along easily.