Oct 9 2007Energy Bucket Collects Solar Energy, Glows
The Energy Bucket, from designer Stefano Merlo, is a bucket with a solar panel top. At nightfall the bucket uses the energy collected during the day to power it's LEDs inside. It makes a statement about energy consumption. I'm not positive what that statement is, but I'm sure it's clever. Almost as clever as the Energy Bags I created. Energy Bags are paper bags filled with dog shit. During the day they collect solar energy, which powers the turd's odor. Then at night they glow because you light them on fire. They make a statement too. A very powerful statement about your porch smelling like burning shit.
Solar-powered 'Energy Bucket' collects sunshine [inhabitat]
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Reader Comments
1. ~zeus~ - October 9, 2007 11:58 AM
haha first.. yeah love the bucket.. down with lamps, more buckets! :D
2. Obviously - October 9, 2007 12:13 PM
I agree with the author. I have no idea what this is or why anyone would have/want one. A glowing bag full of dog excrement is much more interesting.
3. ilovejb - October 9, 2007 12:48 PM
Screw you haters. This is by far the coolest and most useful thing I have ever seen.
4. trent - October 9, 2007 2:47 PM
another piece of useless plastic trash that has no productive output, but only consumes more plastic and whatever metal chips they used to create those panels... great way to save the planet dipshits.
5. Andy - October 9, 2007 4:42 PM
Does it give you brain cancer?
6. el fabuloso - October 9, 2007 5:11 PM
Wow. Nothing says "I deeply care about the environment" more than a useless plastic bucket that looks like it's glowing with uranium. Any word on how that thing can be recycled? Because that's exactly where it's going to end up at. That or as a hobo night light in some back alley.
7. Think! - October 9, 2007 11:09 PM
One thing that "Greenies" need to take into consideration is the amount of energy/carbon that went INTO manufacturing this "Energy -saving" item.
For example, there are some reports that making ethanol from corn actually has a larger carbon footprint than using regular gasoline.
Now I'm not saying that that is accurate, but just saying something is planet-saving just coz it uses solar power, without taking into consideration the manufacturing process, is rather short-sighted.