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On the way home tonight I was taken back by the ugliness of your standard tall steel lights on Motorways and roads. Lamptree’s in essence will be a way of carving nature back onto public highways and roads helping both with pollution and looks. Lamp posts would be replaced by trees that have lighting
systems within them, branching out over the roads in the same way lighting systems work today.
Roxy Paine's tree
http://www.pbase.co...rube/image/23121682
most excellent piece of work [xenzag, Dec 23 2006]
Street Light Tree
http://img72.images...57/lighttreeul8.jpg
[Ronx, Dec 24 2006]
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Several problems with this. |
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One problem is that lining the streets with trees means leaves clog up storm drains, causing flooding during heavy rain (this is actually problem in some parts of the US today). |
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Another problem is that trees can be blown over in high winds, whilst light poles are designed to be slim and strong so they don't catch the wind. Trees falling over in the road is a bad thing. |
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And how does this help with pollution? |
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Edit: just a few more things to consider: |
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1) Mounting the lights on trees means you have to constantly prune the trees to prevent leaves/branches from obscuring the light. |
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2) Bugs and arboreal animals might chew on the lines, which increases the potential for maintenance problems. |
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3) Running electrical lines through a tree greatly increases risk of fire. |
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Is just a side effect of trees 21Q. All that carbon thingamabooby they do. It's pretty nifty though. |
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make the trees from steel. |
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//make the trees from steel// baked -
see Roxy Paine's stainless steel tree
linky |
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The steel trees would make this more feasible, except they would be much more expensive (which means raising taxes to pay for them) and vandals could climb them and mess with the lights. |
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It's all about the cost with you
people isn't it? Bah, problem with
the world today, too much costing,
not enough designing. [+] |
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//It's all about the cost with you people isn't it?// |
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Not at all. But cost is an important factor in something that would come out of taxpayers' wallets. Did you not notice my other, non-money-related, objections? |
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cool. but what if a bird were to eat a lamp...then it would light up at night! that would be awsome!!! |
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