The Solar Electricity Gathering, Storage, and Retrieval Structure
The Solar Electricity Gathering, Storage, and Retrieval Structure is a proposal for a large public art installation that would make electricity from the sun, and store it in batteries for use by the local community in which it is built.
Mounted on top of the white painted steel grid support frame are four large solar cell panels that convert sunlight into electricity. The electricity is sent through copper cables and stored in the 20 black spheres that are attached to the support frame. More copper cables run from the black spheres to a series of 20 receptacles that are mounted onto the lower portion of the support frame.
Visitors to the Solar Electricity Gathering, Storage, and Retrieval Structure can sit on the seats built into the perimeter of the structure, while they charge their electronic devices, by plugging them into the receptacles.
The aesthetics of the structure were inspired by the idea of visualizing the flow of information and energy from the outside world, through the human bodies sensory organs, and then into and out of our neural network. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate ways in which art can be made that helps to raise the awareness of the need to live in a more sustainable way, in our fight against global climate change.
Status: Unbuilt
