A handful of good Photo voltaic energy images I located:
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hidimari no tami (Men and women of sunny areas) A present from my good friend down south.
Two-story website: ‘Land in the Sky’ with a Solar driven Flower Clock following to the Kobe Town Hall in Kobe Japan
Image by Arjan Richter
The Flower Clock
A 50 percent century ago, in the center of the quick financial progress, when the all of Japan was currently being driven by "development", Kobe metropolis swiftly obtained interested in "cityscape". Because of this, the Flower Clock was developed in Kobe.
When the deputy mayor (later on the mayor) visited foreign countries, he came up with the notion of a flower clock in Kobe. The 1 in Geneve, Switzerland was selected as its product. However there was not any beneficial info they asked some watch manufacturers and gownsmen to support research it. They also commenced gathering examples from other countries and sending prints for the design and style drawing of the a single in Geneve. They then commenced to produce their personal Flower Clock.
A dial as extended as 6 meters was unprecedented in Japan, and they would also make a flower bed on the inclining clock encounter. The a lot more information they gathered, the a lot more scientific studies and needed elements had been piling up these kinds of as maintenance of its accuracy, waterproofing at the core, waterproofing and damp proofing in the machine area, result of wind and so on.
As they commenced to remedy the a variety of technical difficulties, they were shortly ready to use money contributed from citizens and businesses to set the flower clock. As the end result of volunteer donations to Kobe Town, the clock was began on the day of the Town Hall completion memory ceremony.
The latest Flower Clock is the second one which was renovated in 1976. It has a machine space underground which stores the mechanics of the clock. Its hands had been manufactured of glass fiber. Its energy resource is solar electrical power that has been produced in the facility on the roof of 2nd annex of City Hall considering that 2002, excluding nights or rainy days. Photo voltaic vitality era is setting-pleasant and clear because it neither pollutes air nor emits CO2, which is worried to be a top trigger of international warming. (Supply: town.kobe.lp.jp).
The Totem Pole
In 1961 the Town of Seattle gave Kobe a Native American Totem Pole, which stands up coming to Kobe Metropolis Hall and serves as the major symbol of the sister town romantic relationship in Kobe. (Resource: Seattle-Kobe Sister City Association).
Hillaire commenced carving totems when he was sixteen, and was considered to have carved far more than one hundred poles ahead of creating Land in the Sky. He died at the age of 73 in 1963.
Land in the Sky was Hillaires seventh significant pole. It was 35-feet tall, 13,240 pounds and carved out of a Washington Red Cedar that was about one,000 many years old when it was cut down.
The totem was aspect of a two-pole undertaking Hillaire did for the sister-cities of Kobe, Japan and Seattle. 1 pole was flown to Japan in 1961 where Hillaire completed it and positioned it in front of Kobe City Hall.
According to Hillaire, a totem pole is not an idol or a factor of worship, but is erected to commemorate an crucial function, comparable to a statue in a park, even though telling a story from the bottom up. The story of Land in the Sky comes from an ancient North Coast Native American legend which describes two young brothers who climb into the sky on a thread of arrow shafts and conquer the moon following a battle.
The more youthful brother marries the moons daughter and the older brother marries the daughter of the sun. The animals depicted on the pole represent the animals in the moons army that the brothers had to battle. (Source: North Kitsap Herald).
Public Clock Photography by Arjan Richter
Solar Energy Pack
Image by Michiel Wijgmans