Street lighting pole 100% powered by wind and solar power.

The mechanical engineer Fernandes Ximenes, owner of Gram-Eollic, developed the first public lamp post 100% powered by wind and solar power.
Clean technologies - those that don’t burn fossil fuel - will be the planet's future when the issue is power generation; solar and wind generation comes out ahead, representing important slices in the energy matrix of various European countries including Spain, Germany and Portugal, besides the United States and also those who had foreseen this reality, when there were only theories, and prepared to produce energy without harming the environment. In Ceara, one of the places in the world with the greatest energy potential (clean), and blessed by nature, aims to show that the state is capable of developing technology.

With models from 12 to 18 feet tall (made of steel), what draws the most attention in the device, technically called Independent Power Producer (IPP) is the presence of a plane on top of the pole.
Made of carbon fiber and aluminum special - same material used in commercial aircraft - the number is three meters long and, in fact, is the key piece of the pole hybrid. Ximenes said that the shape of plane was not chosen by chance. The choice is due to its aerodynamics, which facilitates the capture of sunlight and wind. "Moreover, as an airplane, the pole is safer. There are two sources of energy feeding the same time, can be installed in every major city of Brazil and the world," he explains.

Technically, the wings are home solar cells that capture infrared and ultraviolet rays by means of silicon (chemical element that is the main component of glass, cement, ceramics, most semiconductor devices and silicon), transforming them into electrical energy (up to 400 watts), which is stored in a battery affixed to a few feet below. Delivering the same task of generating energy, are the propellers of the plane. Just as the nacelles (blades) of large wind turbines around the coast of Ceará, energy (up to 1,000 watts) is generated from these rotating blades.

A pole with a "plane" - actually a generator - is able to produce energy without generator and two others with six lamps (LEDs more efficient and more environmentally friendly, since it does not use mercury, as CFLs) 50,000 hours of life day and night (about 50 times more than the lamps currently in operation, as the brightness, the LEDs are eight times more powerful than conventional ones). The capture (light and wind) the plane is made on an axis with 360-degree turn, according to the wind direction.

The project can be seen in the Iracema’s Palace, where it undergoes testing. According to Ximenes, in the coming months there should be an understanding between his company and government. His intention is to put the discovery into squares, avenues and highways.