Winter makes you crazy because you spend so much time cooped up without sweet air or sunshine . With that in mind , some people in New York City have design in the works for an underground park — theLowline — to be build in an abandon trolley station and illuminate through a remote skylight system .
Scientific Americanexplains how lighting glint down there :
The remote skylight will utilise a reflective , parabolic solar aggregation dish outdoors to gather and rivet sun . This dish will have a trailing mechanism so it can travel along the sun across the sky . Fiber - eye cable will transmit captured solar radioactivity to the park ; a serial of domelike fixtures will utilise lenses and reflector to distribute the lighting throughout the Lowline . The fibre - oculus cable’s length will take into account Lowline organizers to place up as many remote skylight fixtures as they like .
There are also plans for plants that can subsist on low levels of light , like mosses , mushroom , and Nipponese maple . If you happen to be in NYC , you could see the distant fanlight system on display in anexhibit going on this week . The Lowline itself is about five to eight years from being an literal thing , and it ’s not a done deal yet — organizers still necessitate license from the city , which owns the string station . But when it does become existent , winter will be a lot more pleasant . [ Scientific American ]
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