About a decade ago, or maybe more, I remember coming across a building which whose interior lighting was primarily provided by an array of flower-like sun collectors on the roof feeding a fiber optic network inside the office tower, bringing not just light but actual sunlight to even the interior offices and rooms. Would someone entering a room with this kind of lighting have a sense that this was sunlight, not just electric, manmade light? Or would the feeling be so close few would notice? In any case, this more recent article (from /.) makes a different (pro) argument for the same technique -- Instead of producing more energy for lighting systems using solar panels, just use that sunlight directly.

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louis [ 07/28/2005 16:20]: check out that poor grammatical form in the first line - ". . . which whose . . ." choose one or the other, definitely not both. i'd go with "whose", although that sort of makes the building seem like a person, now doesn't it? how about changing the sentence around, "the interior lighting of which was . . ." in other news, the button with the apple on it, when pressed simultaneously with the "Q" key quits applications in a flash. who knew?