2023-09-04 05:04:40
In many parts of Europe there will be no sunshine for months. One such town is Viganella in Italy. Surrounded by mountains, the town is located on the Italy-Switzerland border. Its impact is especially high in winter. But the people of Viganella were not ready to rest on their laurels. If the sun is not ready to come here, create a new sun here…. this was their thinking. Finally they succeeded in it.
People have settled in Viganella since the 13th century, but with the onset of winter in November, the sunshine will never diminish. Then it will be next summer to recover. This problem has created a great crisis for the people of Viganella who love to socialize and live as a community. Many people left the place.
Nearby is a steep mountain regarding a thousand meters high, blocking the sunlight to Viganella in winter and casting a shadow there. What is a remedy for this? It cannot be crushed. Some solution should be found intelligently. The effort was started in 1999 by the town’s mayor, Franco Midali.
Engineers Gianni Ferrari and Giacomo Bonzani prepared the project. There is another mountain facing the light-blocking mountain, 1000 meters high. Viganella is at the foot of these two mountains. Engineers calculated that a large mirror placed 500 meters high on the opposite mountain might illuminate Viganella in winter. This was true.
Soon following, the municipal council approved the project. The cost of the project was one lakh euro. They placed a mirror eight meters wide and five meters high on the hillside as pre-determined. This mirror reflected the light onto Viganella, who was lying in the darkness of the shadow of the great mountain. The light spread here for the first time in winter. The mirror will reflect light like this for six hours a day. There are special software systems to control its movement according to the movements of the sun. The light reflected in this way is not as strong as the real sunlight. But it works well to provide heat and good light for the Viganella. This mirror project in Viganella has also been a solution to some other areas facing the same crisis. After learning regarding the mirror here, similar reflection systems were installed in the Norwegian city of Jukkan and the village of Seydisjörður in Iceland.
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