Thought the bench is a wireless charger but saw the usb ports.
Overall a good idea once it doesn’t come out that they cost ridiculous money.
Maybe just my personal taste but the colour makes it look tacky
It’s alright, I wonder how much it costs but given that there are only 3 it probably doesn’t matter how much they overpaid. I think it’s a bit dumb to put the solar panel on the part where you sit so people’s asses are blocking it. The USB ports will get broken for sure as happens at most public chargers, but there are wireless charge pads too as well as free wifi.
Total waste of money I think.
Idea good, execution … ? I’m not sure. They could be made to look more elegant, timeless… I’ve a feeling this will either stop working or be removed or both. Worse, it could stop working and we’re left with a big piece of gaudy pink plastic
Sun will need to shine out of your arse for it to be useful.
I give it a week before some drunk idiot or stupid little shit damages it.
Would this not suit better as a bus shelter roof
Does it only come with type A usb? Those are almost obsolete as is
Brain dead waste of money. This isn’t far off solar roads. This will never generate enough power in its live time to justify the cost. Put solar panels in solar farms, that’s where they work best. Roofs too isn’t a bad idea
Tokenism. The panels are tiny and the pitch angle of the panels is all wrong. You wouldn’t charge an old nokia off the power this generates.
If the bench is used for its primary purpose i.e. sitting, it reduces the power produced.
It’s obviously the same clowns and wasters at the meeting that decided this as were at the one that approved the 250,000 EURO “parkets” (boxes of dirt). Shit like this is the reason that your property tax increased.
If you want to do solar properly the have the panels on top of bus shelters for example, pitched correctly, and wire the power to a normal bench with USB sockets.
Chewing gum in the ports. Without a doubt. Would ha e been a lot better if they made them heated from solar power. And u don’t mean roasting, but just a nice little but of arse warmth while you’re sitting down.
That’s where a certain group of eejits normally hang out shouting at people walking past.. Now they have a bench that charges their phones, slay 💅
Now we know where those with the sun shining out of their arse need to be sent
I saw one in Salthill earlier on in the week. Physically as a bench, it works. But as a solar unit to generate energy it’s an expensive waste of time. I don’t know the cost of individual solar benches versus regular benches but I suspect that they are a lot more expensive.
If the real purpose was to generate power why not redesign the bus shelters? Place some kind of solar panels on the top of them and they will never be blocked by people sitting down. And there are an awful lot of stops without bus shelters.
Good concept. Maybe could do better with it considering glass will be broken. Also colour is ridiculous.
I saw one in Leixlip, pointing towards a beautiful busy 2 lane road. Who the fuck is gonna sit there and charge their phone? [https://maps.app.goo.gl/dPEjbhSNA9MtHjyG9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/dPEjbhSNA9MtHjyG9)
I guess there’s a bus stop nearby. I would’ve integrated into the bus stop though.
The sun shines out of my arse so what’s the problem?
Are the USB outlets waterproof ?
Holy shit the sheer misery of the comments in this thread
I love the idea of having charging points in public. But I can’t help thinking it’d be a better pay-off to just plug them into the grid, and putting the real effort into getting renewables into the grid. Where they actually matter.
Some napkin math tells me it’d cost €28/year to run a 15W wireless charger off the grid. Someone posted a link here to a similar (but prettier) bench costing 7k. So one bench would pay for 250 years of electricity.
These are arse powered device charging benches
Aside from the tokenism, ugliness and insane cost…does it work?? Are we talking 2% in 15 minutes or is it actually useful
As people have said…put panels on bus shelter roofs, then they’ll have unimpeded access to the sun, larger surface area, safety from people tampering or breaking the glass and on top of it all the actual charging points will be sheltered from the elements
They are all over the place. We’ve tlhad them for a couple of years where I live. Never seen anyone leave their phone on them. Probably too worried some scrote will snatch and grab
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Thought the bench is a wireless charger but saw the usb ports.
Overall a good idea once it doesn’t come out that they cost ridiculous money.
Maybe just my personal taste but the colour makes it look tacky
It’s alright, I wonder how much it costs but given that there are only 3 it probably doesn’t matter how much they overpaid. I think it’s a bit dumb to put the solar panel on the part where you sit so people’s asses are blocking it. The USB ports will get broken for sure as happens at most public chargers, but there are wireless charge pads too as well as free wifi.
Total waste of money I think.
Idea good, execution … ? I’m not sure. They could be made to look more elegant, timeless… I’ve a feeling this will either stop working or be removed or both. Worse, it could stop working and we’re left with a big piece of gaudy pink plastic
Sun will need to shine out of your arse for it to be useful.
I give it a week before some drunk idiot or stupid little shit damages it.
Would this not suit better as a bus shelter roof
Does it only come with type A usb? Those are almost obsolete as is
Brain dead waste of money. This isn’t far off solar roads. This will never generate enough power in its live time to justify the cost. Put solar panels in solar farms, that’s where they work best. Roofs too isn’t a bad idea
Tokenism. The panels are tiny and the pitch angle of the panels is all wrong. You wouldn’t charge an old nokia off the power this generates.
If the bench is used for its primary purpose i.e. sitting, it reduces the power produced.
It’s obviously the same clowns and wasters at the meeting that decided this as were at the one that approved the 250,000 EURO “parkets” (boxes of dirt). Shit like this is the reason that your property tax increased.
[https://connachttribune.ie/galway-city-council-remains-silent-on-shocking-cost-of-two-parklets/](https://connachttribune.ie/galway-city-council-remains-silent-on-shocking-cost-of-two-parklets/)
If you want to do solar properly the have the panels on top of bus shelters for example, pitched correctly, and wire the power to a normal bench with USB sockets.
Chewing gum in the ports. Without a doubt. Would ha e been a lot better if they made them heated from solar power. And u don’t mean roasting, but just a nice little but of arse warmth while you’re sitting down.
That’s where a certain group of eejits normally hang out shouting at people walking past.. Now they have a bench that charges their phones, slay 💅
Now we know where those with the sun shining out of their arse need to be sent
I saw one in Salthill earlier on in the week. Physically as a bench, it works. But as a solar unit to generate energy it’s an expensive waste of time. I don’t know the cost of individual solar benches versus regular benches but I suspect that they are a lot more expensive.
If the real purpose was to generate power why not redesign the bus shelters? Place some kind of solar panels on the top of them and they will never be blocked by people sitting down. And there are an awful lot of stops without bus shelters.
Good concept. Maybe could do better with it considering glass will be broken. Also colour is ridiculous.
I saw one in Leixlip, pointing towards a beautiful busy 2 lane road. Who the fuck is gonna sit there and charge their phone? [https://maps.app.goo.gl/dPEjbhSNA9MtHjyG9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/dPEjbhSNA9MtHjyG9)
I guess there’s a bus stop nearby. I would’ve integrated into the bus stop though.
The sun shines out of my arse so what’s the problem?
Are the USB outlets waterproof ?
Holy shit the sheer misery of the comments in this thread
I love the idea of having charging points in public. But I can’t help thinking it’d be a better pay-off to just plug them into the grid, and putting the real effort into getting renewables into the grid. Where they actually matter.
Some napkin math tells me it’d cost €28/year to run a 15W wireless charger off the grid. Someone posted a link here to a similar (but prettier) bench costing 7k. So one bench would pay for 250 years of electricity.
These are arse powered device charging benches
Aside from the tokenism, ugliness and insane cost…does it work?? Are we talking 2% in 15 minutes or is it actually useful
As people have said…put panels on bus shelter roofs, then they’ll have unimpeded access to the sun, larger surface area, safety from people tampering or breaking the glass and on top of it all the actual charging points will be sheltered from the elements
They are all over the place. We’ve tlhad them for a couple of years where I live. Never seen anyone leave their phone on them. Probably too worried some scrote will snatch and grab
I think they’re cool
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