Environmental Activism meets High Power Lasers!
January 19th, 2009 by Jeff
Neat art installation in Helsinki displays laser images on the smoke plume of a power plant.
Maybe we could convince them to make the world’s largest oscilloscope now that they’re done?
Inhabitat » Nuage Vert “Green Cloud” Illuminates Emissions.
Tags: lasers
Neat idea, but there is a little obvious irony here… Smoke stack is result of power plant which powers laser. The commentary on pollution itself causes pollution, and by the brightness of that beam, not a trivial amount… .
Given the abysmal energy efficiency (<0.01%) of most lasers, I definitely see your point.
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