LED's Cropping Up In The Most Practical Places
by John Laumer, Philadelphia on 11.14.06
While driving through "Pennsylvania Dutch" country yesterday evening, we noticed that many of the traditional Amish buggies are now outfit with LED cluster bulbs. They're quite a bit more visible than the conventional types, and probably make the battery last much longer as well: safer for the long journey. Now all they need is a solar panel on the buggy roof. We auto drivers may find such the perfect transportation after the tail of the Peak Oil curve. Photo credit: LED Lights.
We took a trip to Amish country in Ohio this summer and saw a few LED lights on the buggies, but mostly for rainy/foggy days as they don't normally travel at night.
We also went on a tour of a school where they had an old all in one printer/fax/scanner being used as a photocopier running from a battery sitting on the floor which was charged from a solar panel on the roof.
I thought there was at least one manufacturer making solar LED buggy lights for the Amish and Mennonite market.
A friend sent me an article about it in 2003. The URL's
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030918/D7TKV46G0.html
but it doesn't seem to be available anymore. Oh well, perhaps it would be worth your while to dig a little deeper.