It’s already dark and cold in the wintertime, especially in
Scandinavia. But winter in Rjukan, a small town in Norway, is about as
bleak as it gets. The 3,500 residents of Rjukan live in a valley
surrounded by mountains that completely block out any hope of sunlight
for five months during the winter, from September to March.
Now engineers are using sun-tracking mirrors to defy nature and shed some winter sunlight on the town for the first time.
The town just finished installing three huge mirrors on the
mountainside that will reflect sunlight down into the town square.
Helicopters installed the 300-square-foot mirrors, completing
the project deemed The Mirror Project.
Assuming everything goes according to plan, the first artificial sun
will be reflected when winter rolls around in a couple month.
For the res of the story: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/huge-heliostatic-mirrors-are-rigging-artificial-sunlight-in-norway
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