If you’ve ever wanted to see what the world’s largest solar farm looks like, click here for pictures of the Gut Erlasee Solar Park in the Bavarian town of Arnstein. This 12-megawatt park is an impressive sight — looks like something out of Gattica (one of my favorite movies, BTW).
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September 16th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
If it’s one of your favorite movies, it’s funny that you don’t realize it’s spelled Gattaca
September 17th, 2006 at 11:52 am
I borrowed this and watched this wknd. Its a great story and topic. I noticed that when theyre walking between the rows of solar collectors the two rows are facing each other. ? It would have been way cool to have all the heads set in a default nighttime position as far as they can be set away from the dawn position, and then as soon as there’s and inkling of sun rising over the horizon have them all simultaneously “notice” this, wake-up and swivel their full travel sweep into position, taken from a few different camera angles. Kind of like at a concert when the robotic lighting all does the same pattern, -like at a Drum Corp competition when the corp slowly turns around and raises their bugles to their lips together and you can tell from the way the drums are slowing down that there is going to be this awesome visceral blast. Kind of a power-surge + machine intelligence sexyness that could turn people on to this tech. We need to be making commercials!
September 17th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
yeah. well. it’s been while since i saw it.