Tower of Power - plug in now!
(photo courtesy of Alastair Fyfe)
Artists are lighting up London's South Bank with 1200 wind-powered lights as part of a digital arts festival.
The Aeolian tower - which means moved by the wind - is a 15m steel structure located next to Waterloo Bridge.
The tower is covered with hundreds of tiny wind-powered LEDs. Each one made of a plastic turbine, controlling circuits and three red LEDs.
The designers aim to show how renewable energy can be used to power sustainable art and design.
The Aeolian Tower will be in place from 14 -16 November as part of the One Dot Zero - Adventure In Motion festival at the BFI Southbank in London.
Read more of Flora Graham's report on BBC News
Update: I went down to check out the Tower of Power on my way home from the England-Australia match at Twickenham today and it was mighty disappointing. Someone had pulled the plug or the wind was non-existent... whatever the problem is was on the dark side.
posted by ArkAngel @ 1:52 AM
1 Comments:
That's because those wind lights Bruges is using are utter rubbish - cheapo Chinese crap - blinky blinky rubbish. The Firewinder thing looks more promising and it's a British invention but I am yet to see that in the real world too. Why didn't they use that?
RH
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