Lighting up dark places places with no electricity- an awesome idea.
August 13, 2013 1:10 PM Subscribe
Alfredo Moser's invention is lighting up the world Shedding light on another simple idea to light up dark places with no electricity.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Neat stuff but it looks like we basically saw this same thing a couple years back. -- cortex
This better not be about those plastic bottle windows.
posted by goethean at 1:30 PM on August 13, 2013 [5 favorites]
posted by goethean at 1:30 PM on August 13, 2013 [5 favorites]
It's pretty cool indeed. An implementation of this in the Phillipines was reported by The Guardian in 2011 here. And for anyone thinking "why don't they just put windows in some walls"... the "houses" are "glued" to each other so that's not possible. Most of the time the front wall barely has space for a standard-size door let alone a window (and there is the problem of allowing rain in, etc).
I remember I was puzzled how people would have trouble with lighting up a room in these countries when there is so much sunlight. Then it downed on me that these "houses" are more like caves than anything else.
posted by yulik at 1:31 PM on August 13, 2013
I remember I was puzzled how people would have trouble with lighting up a room in these countries when there is so much sunlight. Then it downed on me that these "houses" are more like caves than anything else.
posted by yulik at 1:31 PM on August 13, 2013
That's awesome! I was certain the invention here would be 'fire' but the actual answer - midichlorians - is even better!
posted by Mister_A at 1:35 PM on August 13, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Mister_A at 1:35 PM on August 13, 2013 [1 favorite]
I'd heard of this before, so what caught the eye more about this BBC version of the story was the sub/headline writer's apparent surprise that someone might come up with something neat and not want to monetise it. O tempora o mores, etc.
posted by Abiezer at 1:42 PM on August 13, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Abiezer at 1:42 PM on August 13, 2013 [1 favorite]
Two whole articles and two threads without a single use of the word "upcycling?" Your license to ride your fixie is hereby revoked, Metafilter.
posted by Behemoth at 1:56 PM on August 13, 2013
posted by Behemoth at 1:56 PM on August 13, 2013
Props to anyone who comes up with a comment that's not substantially the same as one in the previous thread linked to by Pruitt-Igoe. Still a double.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 1:59 PM on August 13, 2013
posted by Kirth Gerson at 1:59 PM on August 13, 2013
Deck prisms were the first thing I thought of too. This is cool.
posted by nevercalm at 2:01 PM on August 13, 2013
posted by nevercalm at 2:01 PM on August 13, 2013
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posted by Pruitt-Igoe at 1:15 PM on August 13, 2013