World largest LED light picture display
"It's midnight. You're standing in the middle of a remote desert in Central Asia, surrounded by over a million lights, and you just think 'Wow'." The world record for the largest light picture using LEDs has been smashed using over a million lights spread across over three quarters of a million square meters - the equivalent of approximately one hundred full-sized soccer pitches. The successful attempt broke the previous record of 50,010 lights. The light picture, a full scale plan of an energy plant, used 1,012,840 lights and needed twenty four kilometres of lighting cables, fourteen kilometres of power cables and 302 kilowatts of power from three generators, a railway station and a nearby gas plant. At the award ceremony in London, Guinness adjudicator Jack Brockbank described the achievement as: "The perfect marriage of engineering, technology and creativity." The new record was set at Shurtan in southern Uzbekistan as part o