So they brought sunlight to a parking lot. A. Parking. Lot. I was hoping for a decent cafe, restaurant, playground, meeting place, mosque or such to emerge. Let's see if that's going to happen.
I was curious, why not direct the light towards a tower mirrors arranged such that the dispersion is better? I can see advantages through out the year.
It would defeat the purpose, which is to provide a place where residents can bathe in sunlight (see cable car mention, where residents can/could take trips to the hilltop for some spot sunbathing) during winter months.
The point is not to light up the village (electricity can do that[0]), it's to provide a sunbeam when the sun does not reach high enough above surrounding hills and mountains to directly light up the valley bottom in winter (actually from september to march).
[0] with ~98% of Norway's electricity being hydro, and norway being a net exporter of electricity, feeding electrical appliances is not a huge issue
I was hoping that support for worship of non-existing supernatural beings wouldn't appear in the comments. And in case any worshiping object should appear there, I vote for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
