Memorial flame replaced by LEDs, financed by cell-phone antenna
When I saw the headline over at Make magazine, “Eternal flame replaced by LEDs,” I thought I understood immediately what the article would be about. Some monument somewhere which previously had a natural gas flame was “lowering its carbon footprint” by switching to LEDs. Not exactly.
It seems the memorial, located in the Ukraine, was erected after WWII to commemorate the many, many who died there. Natural gas was one of the plentiful commodities under the USSR regime, and for 50 years there was no trouble getting the flame illuminated with its own natural gas line. However, when things started to fall apart in the USSR several years ago, the free natural gas stopped, and it was too expensive to keep the monument lit. The flame went out.
Part of the solution, as you can guess from the title, is that the flame was replaced by energy efficient, long-life LEDs. But the other part was that the installation of the LEDs was financed by a local cell-phone provider, and the monument now acts as a cell-phone tower.
“The flame would be converted into a cell-phone tower, the antennae concealed by a round facade bearing a pixelated flickering LED-flame image funded by the cell-phone company. One of those capitalistic solutions where everyone wins, but only kind of.”
[Via Make’s blog, via Hack a Day]
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