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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.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostWhat 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...
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Originally posted by zeitghostThe roof in the pics looks like it's asbestos cement.
Drilling big holes in that is ever such a good idea.
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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...
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostI 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.
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.
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Originally posted by vetran View Postits a free way to give dirt poor farmers light in their shacks and avoids them burning poisonous fossil fuels in their huts for lights.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostBut they look bloody stupid. You could produce commercial units for a few pence since they wouldn't need a filament or to be pressurised.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostBut they look bloody stupid. You could produce commercial units for a few pence since they wouldn't need a filament or to be pressurised.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostSo 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?
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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.
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Helps how exactly, rather than just parroting the article? Wouldn't a faceted bulb distribute the light even more effectively?
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostSo 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.
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