Communities Use Solar Powered Stop Signs; Save Lives, Energy and Taxpayer Funds
Solar powered stop signs help save lives in addition to helping save energy costs for the cities that placed them in and around their communities. Solar powered signs need no electricity; therefore there are no wires needed above ground or below ground because they run strictly on the sun’s renewable energy. Solar powered stop signs contain four LED flashing red lights surrounding the word ‘stop’ in order to better attract the attention of drivers to the stop signs to the heed the warning and perhaps avoid an accident.
In today’s high paced society, many people multitask even while driving and this may mean talking on the cell phone, talking with passengers, reading directions or using a GPS machine, adjusting the radio or looking for CDs for the CD player or just getting caught up in one’s own thoughts about what needs to be done at home or work. There are a countless number of distractions a driver could experience that would cause them to miss a stop sign or other traffic signs along the roadways and highways. The solar powered signs with the LED flashing lights are made specifically for grabbing the attention of distracted drivers, or any driver, so that they see the traffic sign and adjust their driving appropriately.
Solar powered signs come in a variety of styles and shapes and could be custom made for construction companies, highway departments or power plants and other chemical plants or factories where pedestrians and heavy machinery share the same pathways. Many of the general solar powered traffic signs are railroad crossing signs, slow: children at play signs, pedestrian crossing signs, and deer crossing signs, traffic signal ahead and directional traffic signs such as an arrow pointing north or an arrow pointing to the left in addition to many others. Each of these signs contains three or four red or yellow bright LED lights which flash on and off in order to grab a driver’s attention. The LED lights are powered through the sun’s energy and through the attached solar panels on each individual sign.
For construction sites, including highway departments, there are solar light towers which could be used when crews need to work at night or on overcast, cloudy days where they need light the most but don’t have electricity readily available to power a large light. The solar light towers are made of durable materials that can withstand extreme heat or cold and tolerate localized shadowing from trees or temporary obstacles.
Solar powered signs, traffic signs and light towers all use the sun’s renewable energy to sustain flashing LED lights or a large light in the case of the light towers, without costing the community taxpayer money for constant electricity or initial costs to bury electrical wires. Solar powered signs save energy and lives.
