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Through the website solarbeacon.org, anyone can now schedule Solar Beacon – heliostats mounted on the Golden Gate Bridge by UC Berkeley space scientists – to flash sunlight in their eyes, like the glint of the sun off a car’s mirror.
Tag: solar
Mirrors provide candles for Golden Gate Bridge’s 75th birthday
May 25, 2012:
In honor of the Golden Gate Bridge’s “Big 7-5,” UC Berkeley space scientists are topping each of its towers with a glittering solar candle. Through a website, members of the public can schedule times for the Solar Beacon’s mirrors to swivel and tilt, flashing reflected sunlight to their location.
Sun-driven and Australia-bound
May 6, 2011:
A team of Berkeley students is burning lots of midnight oil to build a car powered completely by the sun. Their sleek solar vehicle, named Impulse, is on track to compete this October in the world’s premier solar car competition: an 1,800-mile road race across Australia.
