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Miracle Rjukan, The City Without Sunlight

Rjukan's market square basks in the light beamed down by the three mirrors. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
Rjukan City, for me this is a very rare situation, and very beautiful. Imagine when you feel the night around you but a few blocks from where you are now is daytime. This may sound impossible, but this is what happened. do you want to visit this place?

Rjukan is a town and administrative center of the city Tinn in Telemark, Norway. Steep slopes of the surrounding mountains completely block the sunlight illuminating the city Ryukan. It is located in the Vestfjord Dalen, between Møsvatn and Tinnsjå, and got its name after Rjukanfossen ("The Smoking Waterfall") west of the city. The Tinn city council granted city status for Rjukan in 1996. The town has 3,386 inhabitants (January 2007).
Counted every year from September to March which is the winter, Rjukan area did not receive sunlight.
In the past, residents take advantage Ryukan gondola that will transport them to areas that receive sunlight at the top of the mountains. But since the launch of Project Solspeil or above Ryukan Sun Mirror in 2013, residents do not need to climb to the top using the gondola to feel the warmth of the sun.



Rjukan's market square basks in the light beamed down by the three mirrors. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
A result never got the sun for 6 months of the year, a small town at the foot of Mount Gaustatoppen Ryukan, Norway had a unique idea. They put up a giant mirror on the mountain in order to catch the sunlight and reflect it to the city. Solspeil project is actually the idea of ​​the city's founder, Sam Eyde since 1913. But only realized in 2013.With the help of modern technology, the idea was finally realized when Solspeil project forwarded by the citizens at the same time a local artist named Martin Andersen in 2005. The project consists of three boards Solspeil mirror sun catchers on the slopes of the mountain precisely at an altitude of 450 meters above the city center Ryukan. Mirrors, each 17 square meters extent it is able to reflect sunlight an area of ​​600 square meters above the city Ryukan. The third mirror is controlled by a computer which tracks the movement of the sun in the sky making the city Rjukan can enjoy the sun all day.Because of the uniqueness of industrial history, architecture, and project Solspeil, Ryukan cities nominated, representing Norway, listed in UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015.

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