Giant mirrors reflect sunshine into dark Norway town of Rjukan

Giant mirrors reflect sunshine into dark Norway town of Rjukan

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Giant mirrors have been positioned on top of a hill in Norway to shine light into the dark valley town of Rjukan. The sides of the valley are so steep and the mountain so high that the town of Rjukan was in shadow for almost half the year until the new invention was added. The mirrors are controlled by a computer that follows the path of the sun, adjusting to the best angle to catch the rays and reflect them onto the town centre. Report by Sarah Johnston.

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50 Comments

  1. @peter-jamesmmbago8721 on November 8, 2024 at 12:31 pm

    The Norse accent kind of sounds like a Somerset accent from the UK

  2. @plutobills5359 on November 8, 2024 at 12:32 pm

    Damn it’s gotta suck there lol 😂

  3. @RomboutVersluijs on November 8, 2024 at 12:32 pm

    Bizarre it took so long to actually build. Was reading about this town and noticed the idea was indeed around for 100 years?!? Why wait?

  4. @MauritaGalon on November 8, 2024 at 12:32 pm

    4337 Feeney Island

  5. @sreeharis8993 on November 8, 2024 at 12:34 pm

    Alfred left batman and is working for people if norway

  6. @lotuschamp7796 on November 8, 2024 at 12:34 pm

    in the teuwn euf reuchakhan

  7. @apogeedesign4348 on November 8, 2024 at 12:34 pm

    ⭕️The crazy idea. Is that they still have not realized 400 years later or more that they absolutely built their shitty town on the absolute WRONG SPOT. EVEN THE ROMANS KNEW how to do it taking into consideration our one main. celestial light source, more than 29 CENTURIES ago.

  8. @MCFMCF-cg4ki on November 8, 2024 at 12:36 pm

    Why not have more mirrors and create a perpetual summer?

  9. @harryo6126 on November 8, 2024 at 12:37 pm

    What’s a ‘toyne’?

  10. @boitykay on November 8, 2024 at 12:39 pm

    Fascinating

  11. @NiteshBhat2704 on November 8, 2024 at 12:40 pm

    And china was trying to build an artificial sun 😂😂

  12. @martine2651 on November 8, 2024 at 12:40 pm

    Tine of Radjikan??? 😀 sounds rather exotic.

  13. @sumith_s_prince on November 8, 2024 at 12:40 pm

    Reflect Orbital trying to make money from this idea😂

  14. @zamianakkesayanganmama35 on November 8, 2024 at 12:41 pm

    Kesini gara gara liat postingan ig

  15. @wiszak9370 on November 8, 2024 at 12:41 pm

    why can’t they just move to US instead of Mexicans?

  16. @Ban00 on November 8, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    wow so cool ahead of its time

  17. @heisenbergyo5578 on November 8, 2024 at 12:44 pm

    Smol taween

  18. @Red_Star_robin on November 8, 2024 at 12:45 pm

    The Russians tried this back in soviet times but with a giant space mirror that reflected the moons light down on the surface and it worked but they abandoned it became the soviet didn’t care about it

  19. @swapyworld09 on November 8, 2024 at 12:50 pm

    can we install such mirror in space to get sunlight at night ??

  20. @AntwanPopiel-o2l on November 8, 2024 at 12:52 pm

    King Parkway

  21. @godivanstv on November 8, 2024 at 12:52 pm

    This is a Powerful Prove the Earth is Flat and immovable. If its rotates, then Sunlight would have reached it. People, this is prove Science is a fraud

  22. @shedeen on November 8, 2024 at 12:53 pm

    Did the local government consult the vampiric community before installing these mirrors? I doubt it somehow! Rjukan has a large and vibrant vampire population. Yet another vampirist action by a government unconcerned about the undead. I hope that they vote with their wings and bat off to a town that welcomes the cape krone.

  23. @gracecalis5421 on November 8, 2024 at 12:53 pm

    Good place for a nightclub

  24. @davidfrenzel6340 on November 8, 2024 at 12:53 pm

    Are the giant sun mirrors made up?

  25. @jeffengler37 on November 8, 2024 at 12:53 pm

    Where’s the heavy water plant

  26. @angry-white-men on November 8, 2024 at 12:53 pm

    A lot of easy girls putting out during the dark days

  27. @PrayerOfMannesah on November 8, 2024 at 12:56 pm

    Causing change in climate.

  28. @thelastboyscott on November 8, 2024 at 12:57 pm

    That sunless town looks like Rjukan in Norway

  29. @Ceres4S2D1 on November 8, 2024 at 12:58 pm

    *Absolutely no effects to wildlife.*

  30. @gaming4K on November 8, 2024 at 12:58 pm

    Khmmmm Just saying that a half round mirror or metal ball might works better. . lol Like a huge one not a small one…

  31. @andreabasalto on November 8, 2024 at 12:59 pm

    They took the idea from Italy.

  32. @charlieligon1417 on November 8, 2024 at 1:01 pm

    Who else here from the ACT

  33. @HugoCornellier on November 8, 2024 at 1:01 pm

    Seems like a shady place.

  34. @maheshvemulapalli7759 on November 8, 2024 at 1:03 pm

    Human Selfishness, Not Eco friendly. Gradually land slides may occur.

  35. @graziflorida4377 on November 8, 2024 at 1:03 pm

    we should do the opposite to safe life!

  36. @robertb4432 on November 8, 2024 at 1:06 pm

    Bad journalism.. Failed to show it lightning up the town and examples in real time as the resident would experience it. Instead we see some light behind a man’s shoulder.

  37. @nasimzadeh5349 on November 8, 2024 at 1:07 pm

    what are these mirrors made from?

  38. @porsianov9687 on November 8, 2024 at 1:12 pm

    Hello my 9gag friends. Welcome

  39. @fatmayounis8772 on November 8, 2024 at 1:16 pm

    Genius project and it deserves

  40. @yackawaytube on November 8, 2024 at 1:18 pm

    Vampires disagree.

  41. @uhdpappleorchard238 on November 8, 2024 at 1:18 pm

    I need this , same condition here at my home area

  42. @JulietBeacher on November 8, 2024 at 1:22 pm

    779 Horacio Pike

  43. @D-TRIL on November 8, 2024 at 1:22 pm

    🤓

  44. @ryancolson1212 on November 8, 2024 at 1:24 pm

    So glad the toyne’s residents no longer need to take a cebble car to the top of the moyntain

  45. @sunnybeachwalks4k2022 on November 8, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    Just move somewhere warmer

  46. @JordanRegan-k1q on November 8, 2024 at 1:27 pm

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  47. @petesteensen3392 on November 8, 2024 at 1:28 pm

    Was just there and told it’s now inoperable and the company that built it is bankrupt

  48. @norbertrivera on November 8, 2024 at 1:30 pm

    A bigger one and rounded.

  49. @CarnegieDorothy on November 8, 2024 at 1:30 pm

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  50. @trygveevensen171 on November 8, 2024 at 1:31 pm

    That’s a THICC accent and probably the best pronunciation of "Rjukan" I’ve ever heard😅

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