Giant mirrors reflect sunshine into dark Norway town of Rjukan
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Giant mirrors have been positioned on top of a hill in Norway to shine light into the dark valley town of Rjukan. The sides of the valley are so steep and the mountain so high that the town of Rjukan was in shadow for almost half the year until the new invention was added. The mirrors are controlled by a computer that follows the path of the sun, adjusting to the best angle to catch the rays and reflect them onto the town centre. Report by Sarah Johnston.
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Norway town lit up with giant solar mirrors
Rjukan is a small town in Norway tucked in a narrow valley and it never gets direct sunlight in the winter. Mark Phillips reports on a project that is lighting up the town with the world's largest solar mirrors.
Rjukan with Giant mirrors / no sunlight for 6 months/ Sun Mirror / Solspeilet i Rjukan
A small town in Norway called Rjukan is deprived of sunlight half of the year. Behold the solution: Sun mirrors! Three huge sun mirrors erected on the mountain above Rjukan deflects the sunlight downwards, redirecting the sunlight to shine down on the town square. Now, the town’s people can enjoy sunlight when they go out to the town plaza. Just amazing! Bravo Rjukan!
How Giant Mirrors Brought Sunlight Back to Rjukan, Norway
The small town of Rjukan, Norway is situated in such a way that for 6 months out of the year, there is no sunlight! A perfectly ill-situated mountain blocks the sun's light for the winter months, keeping the 3,500 townspeople in darkness...until now. Giant mirrors are making a big change in the town. Kim Horcher and Tim Frisch discuss.
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Norwegians use giant mirrors to reflect sunlight into town square
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The Norwegian town of Rjukan has constructed three large mirrors on a mountain to beam sunlight into the town's square. Rjukan's long winters keep it without daylight for around six months of the year. The three heliostats rotate throughout the day as the sun moves to catch and reflect the rays
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Rjukan, (pop. 3500) is installing giant heliostats to redirect natural sunlight onto the town square during the six months the population lives in in near perpetual darkness.
The industrial town of Rjukan is nestled deep in the Vestfjorddalen Valley -- beyond the majestic Mt. Gaustatoppen (facebook.com/GaustatoppenPhoto) in the rocky Telemark county . With the sun moving low across the sky from September until the end of March, no natural sunlight reaches the town at the bottom of the deep Vestfjorddalen Valley. Since 1928 the sun-starved locals had to take the Krossobanen cable car -- (krossobanen.no) to the Gvepseborg mountain side in order to catch a few winter rays. But that is soon set to be changed.
For the past few months, helicopters have transported three giant mirrors into a position some 450 metres above the valley. They are known as Heliostats, cost approx $835.000 and are designed to track the movement of the sun and reflect the light down directly onto Rjukan's main square. The light will create a 2,000-square-foot circle on the town square, which is usually in shadow.
The idea is not new -- it was already suggested in Rjukan 100 years ago by Sam Eyde, co-founder of the industrial firm Norsk Hydro and later by industrial worker, Oscar Kittelsen. It was never realized at that time because in lack of the necessary technology. So Sam Eyde solved the problem by turning the problem around -- he decided to transport the locals up to the sun - instead of trying to get the sun down to the valley.
The official opening of the Rjukan Sun Mirror Project is expected to take place around October 31. 2013 -- if the sun shines.
Giant mirrors shed sunlight in the winter months on the Norwegian town of Rjukan - hi-tech
Three giant mirrors have been built high on the mountainside above the Norwegian industrial town of Rjukan.
They've been erected to shed some sunlight on a town known for its winter darkness. The mirrors have been installed on the mountain wall about 450 metres above the town's market square.
Each one measures 17 square metres, that's 51 square metres in total to catch the sun's rays and reflect them down on to Rjukan in an elliptical shape of about 600 square metres.
The reflected light will be between 80 and 100 per cent as bright as direct sunlight.
It's important to have the sun in the winter time and in this town we don't have the sun for six months of the year. People up here want to have the sun. We take the mirrors and reflect the sun down to us. It's a crazy idea but it's funny and I think the people like it, explained Oystein Haugan, the sun mirror project manager.
The mirrors are controlled by a computer to follow the path of the sun, adjusting to the best angle to ensure the town square is bathed in light. The idea is not new. It was first suggested in Rjukan 100 years ago and, in 2006, a similar project was successfully set up in the village of Viganella in northern Italy.
Local people it seems have embraced the new scheme.
They say 'hurrah', this is a nice idea. Now we have the sun reflected down to the town square people are coming here, they're taking pictures, they're laughing and having a good time, said Oystein Haugan.
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Let the sunshine in! Giant mirrors brighten up sun-starved Norwegian town
The people of the town Rjukan got off school and work today, as they celebrated the inauguration of the sun mirrors set up to reflect sunlight to their town square.
Sunlight is something many of us take for granted, but giant mirrors are needed to ensure it hits one sun-starved village in southern Norway where winters have been dark and dreary for far too long.
The locals in Rjukan are celebrating their installation although the concept and the cost took some time to be accepted.
When I launched the idea there was a lot of scepticism, said the mirror's mastermind, artist Martin Andersen. I think young people locally liked the idea but the older ones were more sceptical. But there was no great difference.
High up on the mountains surrounding the valley, the computer-guided mirrors redirect rays towards the market square.
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Norwegian Town Uses Mirrors To Make Artificial Sunlight
Rjukan, Norway, sits in a valley that casts a shadow over the town for half the year. In 2013, mirrors were installed to reflect sunlight down to the town's square.
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Helicopter transporting giant Sun Mirror elements - Rjukan / Norway
Helicopter transporting elements for the Sun Mirror at Rjukan - Telemark / Norway. A gigantic mirror on a nearby peak is going to reflect sunlight on Rjukan's main square below. Also check out this video about the mirrors:
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Rjukan, The Town Of Mirrors (No Sunlight)
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Mirrors let gloomy Norwegian town see the light
Residents of Rjukan, Norway, have good reason to celebrate the installation of giant mirrors, which have brought winter sunlight to their town center for the first time. Rjukan gets no sunlight seven months out of the year because of its location in a valley surrounded by mountains. Mark Phillips reports.
Rjukan sale de las sombras gracias a un helióstato en la montaña - hi-tech
Tres espejos gigantes llevan por primera vez el sol invernal a la localidad noruega de Rjukan...
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Tres espejos gigantes llevan por primera vez el sol invernal a la localidad noruega de Rjukan (rukon), a 175km al Oeste de Oslo. Rjukan se encuentra en un profundo valle entre montañas y durante los seis meses de invierno sus 3.500 habitantes viven casi a oscuras, incluso a mediodía.
Los espejos instalados en una montaña cercana reflejan la luz del sol hacia la plaza principal. Cada espejo mide 17 metros cuadrados y juntos forman una superficie de 50 metros en total. Captan los rayos solares y los reflejan hacia un área de unos 600 metros cuadrados.
Oysten Haugan es uno de los promotores del proyecto en la municipalidad de Tinn:
Es importante tener sol en invierno y en esta ciudad no vemos el sol durante seis meses al año. La gente necesita el sol. Estos espejos reflejan el sol hasta nosotros. Es una idea loca, pero divertido y creo que a la gente le gusta.
La luz reflejada es entre un 80 y 100 por ciento más brillante que la luz directa del sol. Los espejos, controlados por ordenador, siguen la trayectoria del sol, ajustando su posición con un helióstato. La idea no es nueva, surgió por primera vez en Rjukan hace 100 años; y en 2006 se realizó un proyecto similar Viganella al norte de Italia.
Las gente lanza hurras de alegría, es una buena idea. Cuando hay sol en la plaza la gente sale a pasear, a hacerse fotos. Se ríen y pasan un buen rato.
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Good Day Sunshine: Giant mirrors brighten up sun-starved Norwegian town
Sunlight is something many of us take for granted, but giant mirrors are needed to ensure it hits one sun-starved village in southern Norway where winters have been dark and dreary for far too long.
The locals in Rjukan are celebrating their installation although the concept and the cost took some time to be accepted.
High up on the mountains surrounding the valley, the computer-guided mirrors redirect rays towards the market square.
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A day at Rjukan city and surroundings
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Here is a veteran boat, a veteran train and a veteran bus. All this is found in the town of Rjukan, which lies in a narrow valley surrounded by steep hills. Rjukan is considered as the cradle of the Norwegian industrial adventure and is also on UNESCO's world heritage site. In the higher end of the valley you will find Vemork power plant. It was at the time (around1910) the world's largest power plant. In the production of fertilizers they needed very much electric power and above Rjukan there was a large waterfall. It was piped and turned into electric power. Today, the power is produced in large modern power plants in the mountains on each side of the valley and vemork has been transformed into an Industrial and War Memorial Museum
The Town that Gets its Light from Giant Mirrors
Rjukan sits in a deep-cut valley between two imposing mountains. Rjukan suffers from 6 months of the year without light, 3 more than the much more northern town of Tromso. This isn't because the sun doesn't make it over the horizon in this area, it's because Rjukan spends its life in the shadow of the surrounding mountains.
For most of the town's history, Rjukan has existed in these depressing shadows, that is until giant mirrors were installed to light up the town square.
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The Sun Mirror built to beam sunlight on Rjukan square in winter
Rjukan, an industrial town nestled in a narrow valley in central Norway, has found a way to shed some sunlight on the town square starting this September, using giant mirrors.
Norwegian town builds giant mirrors to avoid winter darkness
Originally published on July 24, 2013
A valley town in southern Norway that does not receive any sunlight during the winter plans to install giant mirrors to reflect sun down into its main square.
The 3,500 residents of Rjukan live in darkness between September and March each year. The industrial town is surrounded by high mountains that prevent sunlight from reaching the valley floor.
Residents will receive sunlight this winter for the first time thanks to recently installed giant mirrors that will illuminate the town square, providing an oasis of light amidst darkness.
The German-made mirrors have a total surface area of roughly 538 square feet.
The sensor-equipped mirrors will automatically adjust to follow the sun in order to continually light a concentrated space in the town square.
Residents hope the roughly $830,000 installation will attract more tourists to the former industrial center.
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Es werde Licht: Norweger leiten die Sonne um - hi-tech
Das Tal, in dem die norwegische Stadt Rjukan liegt, ist so eng, dass ihre Einwohner von Oktober bis...
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Das Tal, in dem die norwegische Stadt Rjukan liegt, ist so eng, dass ihre Einwohner von Oktober bis März nie einen Sonnenstrahl zu Gesicht bekamen. Doch mit dem Schattendasein ist es jetzt vorbei: Seit Ende Oktober fangen drei riesige Spiegel auf einem Berg über der Stadt Sonnenstrahlen ein und reflektieren sie ins Tal. Die Spiegel sind je 17 Quadratmeter groß und können eine Fläche von rund 600 Quadratmetern Wintersonne umleiten. Diese soll künftig den Marktplatz von Rjukan erhellen. Bei der Einweihungsweiher am 30. Oktober standen die Stadtbewohner dort bereits staunend in der Sonne.
Die Idee ist nicht neu, bereits vor hundert Jahren wollte sich die Stadt westlich von Oslo mithilfe von Sonnenspiegeln Licht ins Tal holen. Doch damals war die nötige Technik noch nicht erfunden.
In Norditalien wurde im Jahr 2006 ein ähnliches Projekt erfolgreich umgesetzt: Seit das Dorf Viganella Sonnenstrahlen umleitet, sitzen seine Bewohner auch im Winter nicht mehr im Dunkeln.
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