Solar Lily Pond Island
We’ve been using solar energy to create electricity for ages. My father has a solar powered AM radio that is probably older than I am…or at least it looks like it. Now there really isn’t anything I want to listen to on AM anymore but the geek in me still finds it fascinating. So I’m working on converting my electric lawn mower to solar power and I come across this solar fountain. I don’t have a pond in my back yard but I’m going to hand my kid a shovel when he gets home from school tomorrow; this thing is just cool. It’s a floating lily pad made out of ABS plastic 9 inches in diameter. It has a built in solar powered pump that moves 25 gallons an hour and an adjustable spray pattern. Now I know that traditional fountains do not pull a huge amount of electricity anyway, but you have to run wires and then hide wires and all those kind of things that just take the fun out of something like this…for me anyway. With this fountain, you just let it float around the pond and as long as there is sunlight you have a fountain; and if it’s dark you can’t see it anyway. The Solar Lily Pond Island is available for $49.99 from SkyMall. 
Wednesday ~ November 11, 2007 by Steve W Posted in Garden Ponds and Water Features |
