Austrian Town Sees the Light

pin_gween writes "The Austrian town of Rattenberg (a 10 minute walk from sunlight during the winter) plans to install a mirror on a mountain to redirect sunlight towards the town. The town was built in the winter shadow of Rat Mountain. The plan is to place heliostat mirrors to shine light in several locations around town, where villagers could 'congregate and get sunned up.' The EU is ponying up half the $2.4 million costs. The company installing the mirrors, Bartenbach Lichtlabor GmbH, is contributing $600,000, and hopes other communities will use their technology."

Comments

Re:If you can't stand the heat...

[Mindjiver]

Of course one should whine. This is tax payers money taken by force from the rightfull owners, it should be spent wisely.

Re:Don't like it? Too bad

[NardofDoom]

So nobody should live anywhere that has a remote possiblity of anything ever going wrong. And if something does go wrong, well, then it's their fault, right? I mean, they shouldn't have lived there. Just like those damn poor people. If they have such a problem with not having enough to eat, they should have been born to rich parents just like the rest of us.

/sarcasm