Sorry...this is such a poor photo. I shot it from a moving bus, (clipping along in Ren County, China), with a disposable camera, using real film. But, if you open the link, and look real closely, you'll see two rows of arched street lamps...reminiscent of alien-tentacles from of "War of the Worlds".
Here's a blow-up that might help:
Two (halogen) lamps, illuminate the road (at a 45 degree angle); while a single lamp--half-way down the tentacle, illuminates a bike path (on the other side of the hedge.) Near the top of the vertical brace, a butterfly-shaped solar panel gathers the Sun's energy by day. The shaft, I'm guessing, holds a rechargeable battery; that stores that energy and powers the lamps by night.
I thought this was a noteworthy piece of sustainability engendering, that I saw in China.
It is also another good example of how sustainable development of a whole community comes by developing each 'part' of the 'whole' to be self-sustainable as possible.
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