Monday 2 January 2023

Closed system in Kennington

The amazing Christmas lights in Kennington were better than ever.

I really liked the polystyrene snow effects in the old street lanterns. I realised that it is not possible for the figures to ever get buried because each is a closed system. A pump takes beads from the bottom and pumps them round to the top where they fall.
Even better for a physicist, this process also charges the polystyrene so some of the beads are attracted to the inside of the plastic moulding.