Reply to: Let there be light

[d000hg]

Well he is already drilling holes in the roof and says it doesn't leak... I am attaching the funnel to the coke bottle to collect more light.

[chef]

What if you make a double-ended one, I wonder - another bottle outside the roof. Wouldn't that collect light from a greater area?

Or a shiny funnel I'm patenting a funnel covered in kitchen foil...

umm and when it rains, hw do you propose to stop the rain getting down your shiny funnel and flooding the room below?

[original PM]

The roof in the pics looks like it's asbestos cement.



Drilling big holes in that is ever such a good idea.

when you ain't got a pot to piss in that is probably the least of your worries

[d000hg]

What if you make a double-ended one, I wonder - another bottle outside the roof. Wouldn't that collect light from a greater area?

Or a shiny funnel I'm patenting a funnel covered in kitchen foil...

[lilelvis2000]

Neat. my allotment shed could use a couple of those.

thanks.

[vetran]

I thought dirt poor farmers went to sleep when it was dark. This approach has worked for thousands of years, long before the invention of electric lighting or gas/oil lamps.

this is during the day, early evening when they make clothes or the kids dinner, or the rainy season.

Bottles are free in the poor areas soft drink's manufacturers give them away free or sell them very cheap to people who litter them or they can be recycled locally.

[d000hg]

Discarded drinks bottles are free and everywhere.

Maybe where you live

[d000hg]

its a free way to give dirt poor farmers light in their shacks and avoids them burning poisonous fossil fuels in their huts for lights.

I thought dirt poor farmers went to sleep when it was dark. This approach has worked for thousands of years, long before the invention of electric lighting or gas/oil lamps.

[eek]

But they look bloody stupid. You could produce commercial units for a few pence since they wouldn't need a filament or to be pressurised.

Yes but its costs money add transportation and it more money. Discarded drinks bottles are free and everywhere.

[vetran]

But they look bloody stupid. You could produce commercial units for a few pence since they wouldn't need a filament or to be pressurised.

its a free way to give dirt poor farmers light in their shacks and avoids them burning poisonous fossil fuels in their huts for lights.

[NotAllThere]

So does a hole in the roof suck more light into a room when you glue a bottle to it? Wouldn't you be better just having a window/skylight?

Windows cost money. Drilling a hole in the roof is considerably cheaper. When you're really poor you don't give a flying **** what it looks like.

[d000hg]

But they look bloody stupid. You could produce commercial units for a few pence since they wouldn't need a filament or to be pressurised.

[vetran]

Helps how exactly, rather than just parroting the article? Wouldn't a faceted bulb distribute the light even more effectively?

A faceted bulb would work better but discarded coke bottles are 'free' water & Bleach nearly free.

[d000hg]

Helps how exactly, rather than just parroting the article? Wouldn't a faceted bulb distribute the light even more effectively?

[vetran]

So does a hole in the roof suck more light into a room when you glue a bottle to it? Wouldn't you be better just having a window/skylight?

Those light-tubes you can have fitted which pipe light into window-less rooms are very neat though.

refraction the water helps