{"id":3204,"date":"2009-12-24T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/siemens-awes-autobahn-drivers-with-spinning-led-christmas-star-leds\/"},"modified":"2009-12-24T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T15:40:00","slug":"siemens-awes-autobahn-drivers-with-spinning-led-christmas-star-leds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/siemens-awes-autobahn-drivers-with-spinning-led-christmas-star-leds.php","title":{"rendered":"Siemens Awes Autobahn Drivers With Spinning LED Christmas Star [LEDs]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>With 9,000 LEDs, a little superglue and some holiday magic, Siemens and artist Michael Pendry teamed up to turn a wind turbine outside Munich into \"the world's biggest revolving Christmas star.\" It uses as much energy as a hairdryer.<\/p>

The Siemens SuperStar<\/a>, which will stay spinning outside Munich through January 6th, was conceived as a project to celebrate sustainable energy and green innovation.<\/p>

The SuperStar's 9000 OSRAM LEDs emit the equivalent of 22,000 candles, shining in a variety of colors and an array of spectacular patterns. Long exposure photography was used to capture the SuperStar as a vibrant spinning disk as seen above, not altogether unlike the one recently created by aliens<\/a> over Norway. The video below details the process of constructing the SuperStar and shows some shots of the wheel in action.<\/p>

Munich's Mayor, Christian Ude, has been an enthusiastic proponent of the energy-efficient spectacle from the start and hopes his city will be the first of its size to meet all energy requirements from renewable sources. [Siemens<\/a> via Inhabitat<\/a>]<\/p>

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