San Fran Receives Its First Solar Powered Bus Stop, To Support City Wide WiFi
San Francisco has to be one of the foggiest cities in the US, right? Well, that won”t stop the city from installing 1,100 solar powered bus stop shelters between now and 2013. The wave like red roof contains enough photovoltaic panels to power an intercom, LED lighting and a WiFi router, which is part of an effort to bring SF city wide wireless Internet. Now if we can just get LA to sign on for 10,000 or so of these.
Christen Costa
Grew up back East, got sick of the cold and headed West. Since I was small I have been pushing buttons - both electronic and human. With an insatiable need for tech I thought "why not start a blog focusing on technology, and use my dislikes and likes to post on gadgets."
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