There are so many small boxes like this in Geneva. They kind of appeared during the last few weeks. Are they anywhere else? What is it and what are they used for? Anybody got a clue?
There are so many small boxes like this in Geneva. They kind of appeared during the last few weeks. Are they anywhere else? What is it and what are they used for? Anybody got a clue?
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Is it a laser activated counter? Counting pedestrian traffic?
They’re part of an ongoing project to test the geothermal energy potential in Geneva. There are these boxes all around the city and there are ‘vibrating’ trucks that basically will send reverberations through the earth and these boxes placed around are meant to take readings – as I understand it anyway.
[https://www.letemps.ch/economie/geneve-evalue-potentiel-geothermique](https://www.letemps.ch/economie/geneve-evalue-potentiel-geothermique)
It’s a massive research program about discovering how the natural warmth of underground water could be used as source of energy
[https://www.geothermies.ch](https://www.geothermies.ch)
Just did the research since one popped up next to my bus stop, they’re sismic sensors, no clue why they’re there but they are!
GÉothermies project.
There is a letter last/this week explaining it in your mailbox 🙂
Ghostbuster traps!
Its funny you ask, im in Geneva and i’ve seen them ALL over my quartier. Was going to ask the exact same question.
They are also every where in neighboring France.
To add to the other replies, there are about 20 000 spread around the canton, so yes, they are ‘somewhere else’ I guess 😉
Some of us got pamphlets in the post, but it seems like many many people in Geneva never got these. It also seems like a few devices are already missing…
Merci à tous pour vos réponses!!! Je profite de pouvoir être compris en français, car c’est rare sur ce sub et sur reddit en général.
Bonne soirée à vous tous.
They’re for detecting the microchips installed by the vaccine
as the great “sugarman” once humbed…”I wonder where those wires go and I wonder what is behind those screws and I wonder why the device is on the left side of the blue line and I wonder what town will be next”
I think it s the thermal project but also a laser box to calculate how much cars pass trought
Sure it’s for geothermal studies
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Hi, I’m actually working for that project. As other people have said, they are receivers, called “geophone” that monitor vibrations of the ground, like a small sismograph. Thank you to take care of them ^^.
They’re vibrating truck going around the canton, around petit Saconnex for tonight, pregny for tomorrow night, that send vibrations into the earth, and with the receivers we can see what’s below the ground, to around 3km depth. (Oversimplification)
As other mention, you can go to geothermies.ch to find more info .
Feel free to ask me anything about this project!
These things are used to identify faults in the underground. Once the fault lines are identified, they will drill down to confirm there is water.
Every time they identify water they can install a geothermic station that can heat up the neighbourhood very effectively, without a heat pump.
Interestingly, they expect every 30 years or so to have to let the well sit for a couple of years so that heat builds up again.
I am just transcribing the answers I got while visiting the info center just in from of UNI Mail.
geothermal activity stuff i think
Geneva is scheduled for demolotion. It was in the last vote, didnt you read it?
Aaaand… they’re already vandalized.
Source (in French, sorry for the paywall but I couldn’t find a free article):
https://www.tdg.ch/la-campagne-de-prospection-du-sous-sol-affronte-les-actes-de-vandalisme-770228370828
It’s a box of chocolates. You unlock it with your tongue
What I like about this post is, even against my thought “no one in the comments will know the answer” the internet can be a beautiful and interesting place, multiple people knew the answer to such a strange question with one simple picture
Truly astonishing