TECHNOLOGY - USA - Bus-shelter lights fueled by sun
Seattle,WA,USA -Seattle Times, by Carina Stanton -June 28, 2005: -- Seattle averages only 96 sunny days per year, but King County Metro Transit believes that's enough to light 43 downtown bus shelters with solar power through even the gloomiest winters... Two prototype bus shelters, were fitted with the alternative-energy lights last fall and still are working at full capacity... The technology is being used in bus shelters and bus stops in Toronto; Vancouver, B.C.; and London; and it is being tested in Pierce County and Portland...
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