Lights, camera ... environmental action?
You might say it's an inconvenient truth, but the movie industry is anything but green. With their supercold ACs and flashy marquees, movie theaters require a great deal of energy.
Except for England's Sol Cinema.
The tiny mobile movie theater -- dubbed the world's smallest solar-powered cinema by its creators -- runs only on energy it harnesses from the sun.
We say any cinema could and should be 100 percent powered by renewable energy, said Paul O'Connor, co-founder of the arts group Undercurrents. The U.K. isn't famous for sunny days, yet [we] still manage to run our entire cinema, including video projectors, sound systems, laptops, hard drives and lights from the energy of the sun via solar panels. This means we have no utility bill each year and can perform anywhere at anytime.
Tucked into a trailer, the tiny theater uses an LED projector powered by solar energy gathered by photovoltaic panels and stored on lithium batteries to screen a variety of shorts, films and video projects -- mainly with an eco-friendly angle.
Our range of genre is wide, but [we] mostly concentrate on inspiring actions taken to improve the environment. We show music, documentary, arts, animation and drama, O'Connor told AOL News.
Full Story Link With Pictures: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/a...smallest-solar-powered-movie-theater/19712380
You might say it's an inconvenient truth, but the movie industry is anything but green. With their supercold ACs and flashy marquees, movie theaters require a great deal of energy.
Except for England's Sol Cinema.
The tiny mobile movie theater -- dubbed the world's smallest solar-powered cinema by its creators -- runs only on energy it harnesses from the sun.
We say any cinema could and should be 100 percent powered by renewable energy, said Paul O'Connor, co-founder of the arts group Undercurrents. The U.K. isn't famous for sunny days, yet [we] still manage to run our entire cinema, including video projectors, sound systems, laptops, hard drives and lights from the energy of the sun via solar panels. This means we have no utility bill each year and can perform anywhere at anytime.
Tucked into a trailer, the tiny theater uses an LED projector powered by solar energy gathered by photovoltaic panels and stored on lithium batteries to screen a variety of shorts, films and video projects -- mainly with an eco-friendly angle.
Our range of genre is wide, but [we] mostly concentrate on inspiring actions taken to improve the environment. We show music, documentary, arts, animation and drama, O'Connor told AOL News.
Full Story Link With Pictures: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/a...smallest-solar-powered-movie-theater/19712380
