Austrian Town Sees the Light

Posted by Zonk on Sunday November 20, 2005 @09:43PM from the visitors-from-the-outside dept.

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."

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Australia by o0Buddha0o · 2005-11-20 22:08 · Score: -1, Redundant

Won't the kangaroo's burn?
In related news... by Scott+Swezey · 2005-11-20 22:36 · Score: -1, Redundant

It turns out the Archimedes Death Ray could have been real afterall.

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Re:earlier by Davey+McDave · 2005-11-21 01:05 · Score: -1, Redundant

This kind of post really REFLECTS the kind of immaturity you see around slashdot..

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