Solar/Wind Powered Street Lights in Tokyo

These street lights are pretty freaking neat. I mean they are self sufficient in their power consumption and they look nice too. During the day they charge the batteries by solar power and wind power. They lights then illuminate at night and also uses wind power to keep the battery charged. They are found in the Panasonic center in Tokyo. It sounds like that is the only place they are found.The big question is why isn’t something like this rolled out in every city of the industrialized countries? This with a combination of LED lights would greatly reduce the strain on the earth by these cities and I would imagine that over time they would save the city a ton of money. They might be expensive initially but I think the long term environmental effects as well as the potential to never have to pay to power the thousands of street lights many cities maintain would be appealing to most cities.

Tagged Environment, Living Green, Tech | | 02.07.2008 at 1:05 pm