What Are These I Saw On Holiday?

[Tim330]

Taken last week near a beach in the resort of Playa Blanca, Lanzarote. I thought some sort of volcanic measuring devices but don't have a clue. A few boxes had open doors.

[Burrito]

Power supply for chalet/mobile home type accommodation?

Do you have a link to google maps of the area? Maybe have a look at archived Google satellite images to see if there's anything from a couple couple of years ago.

[Tim330]

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en-GB&q=play...

Here it is. Not sure how to look at the archived photos though. Old holiday homes does make sense though

[jkh112]

google maps clearly shows it along the coast from your link. It is labelled as Papagayo camping.

[Tim330]

Sorry my google map link was to the wrong place. It was further round to the right (north east. But mystery solved, thanks

[maxjeff]

The only thing I know of similar to that is an experiment to measure the number of cosmic rays hitting the Earth although these are usually filled with water

[Burrito]

Random thread resurrection!

I thought cosmic ray monitoring used huge, underground silos of water? (this was from my physics days, so times may have changed in those *whispers* 16 years).

[Beati Dogu]

Dry cleaning fluid I think.

[deadtom]

Burrito said:

Random thread resurrection!

I thought cosmic ray monitoring used huge, underground silos of water? (this was from my physics days, so times may have changed in those *whispers* 16 years).

I believe you're thinking of neutrino detectors

[Burrito]

deadtom said:

I believe you're thinking of neutrino detectors

You're right. That's 16 years of hard graft, children, no sleep, and much alcohol. I'm surprised I manage day to day tasks so it's no shock that I'm unable to recall much detail from my Physics a level!