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London's red phone boxes go green |
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by Dharmendra Kapri | 17-10-2014 17:36
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The iconic red phone box of London has been painted green, and will act instead as a solar powered phone charging station. The first of six solarboxes around the city was unveiled this week on Tottenham Court Road.
 Although passers-by can use these solarboxes for free, adverts will be broadcast as they wait for the device to charge. London's red telephone boxes of yore are largely disused, although recent initiatives have seen some converted into miniature libraries or equipped with emergency medical equipment. This is the phone box?s highest-tech renovation revolution, with the chosen boxes painted green and fitted with a roof-mounted solar panel. A converted booth, called a "solarbox" can charge up to 100 phones a day. The station comes equipped with chargers for a number of cell phone devices. Inside there is a variety of phone charging ports for a range of smartphone models, as well as a screen that displays ads. The project was the brainchild of two geography students turned entrepreneurs Harold Craston and Kirsty Kenny. Both studied at the London School of Economics and were interested in finding new ways to use public spaces. Source- http://www.go-green.ae/greenstory_view.php?storyid=2491 |
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6 Comments
Thank you for sharing, Dharmendra!
Posted 29-11-2014 23:43
Nice post
Posted 31-10-2014 23:30
This is apt use of defunct or rather less used phone booths. Many-a-times it happens that phone's battery dies in market. People in London will have a reprieve now, that too Solar.
Thanks for sharing Dharmendra.
Posted 21-10-2014 20:55
These days no one care about telephone box and it's used by a few times a day. So, I thought that the days of phone booth has gone. But wow, it made a great came back as a green cell phone charger! Thank you for sharing, Dharmendra!
Posted 20-10-2014 13:26
That's a great advertisement and encouragement for renewable solar energy. Thanks for the post , Dharmendra.
Posted 20-10-2014 03:17
thank for the great post. Great way to encourage public to use renewable source of energy. :)
Posted 17-10-2014 19:43