Pacific Wheel

The Pacific Wheel is the world’s only solar-powered Ferris wheel. Measuring 85 feet, the Wheel moves at 2.5 revolutions per minute with intermittent stops to pick up passengers. It features more than 174,000 energy-efficient LED lights that display dynamic, eye-popping computer-generated lighting entertainment in the evenings.^[1]

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The Pacific Wheel is featured in Waves of Devastation.

It was introduced in 1 month after people when coastlines around the world have gone dark but in the surf of Los Angeles, strange lights still twinkle in the sea because on the Santa Monica Pier, the Pacific Wheel still blazes with 1,600 thousand LED lights. The episode explains that it was first installed in 2008 and flash with computer controlled designs that can be seen from more than 10 miles away. Eric Broeske stated that the Ferris Wheel is run on solar power and as long as the solar panels are active, it can keep powering the LED lights.

In 10 years after people, the Pacific Wheel on Santa Monica Pier is still lighting up the night but the pounding of the pier has taken over the years is showing during the day. After 10 years, the nightly light show from the Pacific Wheel comes to an end and despite the solar panels and most of the LED lights would be expected to last 20 to 25 years, after a decade without maintenance, the system's inverter which converts the solar power's DC current into usable AC electricity finally fails and the Ferris wheel goes dark.

Its fate is revealed in 50 years after people when the devastating waves of a winter storm are tearing into a crumbling Santa Monica Pier and the rest of the solar powered and rusting Ferris wheel is in trouble. The powerful waves and strong winds have cause most of the wheel to be wipe out and destroy but the A-frame shaped base remains because it's the same principle behind the incredible longevity of the Egyptian pyramids; a wide and a narrow top, makes an incredibly sturdy design. Eric Broeske stated that even after the Ferris wheel is gone, the A-frame would still be on the Santa Monica Pier for 100 years since its a stout structure and an A-frame that is very strong in a shape of the triangle.