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SPEAKING OF SUN
Our council revamped the Sylvania shopping strip on The Princes highway and no doubt to please the green vote put up a row of solar powered street lights.
There are five left and two are minus the solar panel.
Solar power has its place, but I don't think it would be cost effective to use them for street lights when there is mains power nearby, (as shown in the photo) or for school zone flashing lights, as most schools would have mains power, and most school zones are near schools.
One of the remaining five.
One of the two without a solar panel.
They must've been be sensitive panels to work in the shade.
In a Sutherland Council broucher in the mail last year these solar powered lights at Sylvania were included as an example of sucessful "green" thinking.
I wonder how much ratepayers money this trendy little exercise has cost and how much the RTA will waste to maintain their solar powered flashing lights?
This entry was posted on 08 Jul 2007 at 00:16 by hstephens and is filed under All.