As we head into winter, when the days get short and the sun can be absent for a week or more:
I don't know about the crazy part -- it sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Here, of course, Paul Ryan would be demanding tax cuts for mirror manufacturers to pay for it.
Residents of a remote village nestled in a steep-sided valley in southern Norway are about to enjoy winter sunlight for the first time ever thanks to giant mirrors.
The mountains that surround the village of Rjukan are far from Himalayan, but they are high enough to deprive its 3,500 inhabitants of direct sunlight for six months a year.
That was before a century-old idea, as old as Rjukan itself, was brought to life: to install mirrors on a 400-metre (437-yard) high peak to deflect sunrays towards the central square.
“The idea was a little crazy, but madness is our middle name,” said Oeystein Haugan, a local project coordinator.
I don't know about the crazy part -- it sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Here, of course, Paul Ryan would be demanding tax cuts for mirror manufacturers to pay for it.
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