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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."
If there's a glitch in focusing, then the people get fried like ants?
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During peacetime, it brings light to the people, but if war is declared - instant Archimedes Death Ray! :D
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No, but if somebody could find a 'mirror'... ;D
Sorry, couldn't resist.
...that the mirror companies decision to pay for some of the cost will reflect well on them over time.
Well, yes, probably. That said, I wonder if this might actually attract a certain type of warped tourist to the town? The City of Eternal Darkness, lit only by giant mirrors that reflect an eerie faded sunlight onto its dismal roofs... Chances are something Lovecraftian lives there.
Myself, I'd be heading up the hill to stick a giant cut-out of a bat onto one of the mirrors :-)
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
the Austrian variety of kangaroo's live deep deep underground in dark cold caverns, they'll be alright.
Is Wyle E. Coyote and a giant "Acme" mirror.
Unintended consequences ensue.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill