Veil Solar Shade To Teach Kids About Renewable Energy
By Nick May 27, 2008
A good way to teach the kids about global warming and the importance of replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy is to design something they like and understand. An interactive solar power installation was designed by Buro North for Australian primary school yards with many purposes like to generate electricity, teach kids about renewable energy and to provide shade from the sun.
The installation is called Veil Solar Shade and it’s shaped like a cobra head or more like a canopy. The Veil canopies were designed to harvest as much sun power as they can as under the installations the is a LED-based pattern which indicates the intensity of the energy. If it doesn’t work at full potential, then it can be turned around to find the best angle to get energy from the sun.
The Veil Solar Shade design was funded by the Victorian Government and the canopies were appreciated across the world and we hope to see more like this all over the world (where the climate is favorable for harvesting solar energy).
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