Yet another use for all those plastic beverage bottles......Brilliant!!!!

[Finalygotabeltfed]

Proof that necessity is the mother of invention. This guy deserves high praise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOl4vwhwkW8&feature=share

 

[mustagt02]

That is awesome

 

[MST_2009]

I wish they would update the app. My DROID can't play the vid.

 

[Dradian]

Wow that's great, smart guy

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[SheepDog_B]

nice!

 

[Boghog1]

Brilliant!~

 

[Rancho]

That is just awesome I love it! you guys ever see the earthship houses?

 

[MisterHappy]

Nice. Simple, effective, affordable.

 

[AppleSeeds]

This. Is. Awesome.

 

[atmay]

He must be one bright guy to think to do that.

 

[Knob Creek]

Wait till Obammie gets ahold of this. He'll call it green jobs, give this guy a loan, have him get the necessary permits and environmental impact studies and he'll be bankrupt in a month.

 

[yanici]

Guy shoulda had a patent on that. I do believe there is a commercial possibility for an improved model of that light.

 

[speedy]

How can we tax that invention? Nothing is free! We need to figure out what we need to do to get some revenue out of the whole deal.
GREAT IDEA. Good for them.

 

[SSShooter]

Guy shoulda had a patent on that. I do believe there is a commercial possibility for an improved model of that light.

Except that the prior art is 100s of years old. Mystic seaport has a great example: http://glassian.org/Prism/Deck/Charles_W_Morgan/index.html

 

[USMA-82]

Why can't guys like THAT emigrate to the US?

 

[tigersplint]

Why can't guys like THAT emigrate to the US?

Because he would do it the legal and proper way,



and then go broke.

 

[RATTLESNAKE]

Pretty Damm Cool.

 

[Coyote33]

You can get something similar to those here as well, though the pricing is, well, "different".

Customer reviews for 10 in. Pitched Rigid Sun Tunnel Tubular Skylight Acrylic Dom

VELUX 14 in. Low Profile Flexible Sun Tunnel Tubular Skylight Acrylic Dome

I don't know why they just don't swap in a sheet of white or frosted plastic corrugated roofing in place of the tin.


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A house designed with daylight in mind

 

[Gibbs]

Guy shoulda had a patent on that. I do believe there is a commercial possibility for an improved model of that light.

Uh, yep:

"Solatubes."

 

[Fixxah]

How does the rat know what weed smells like?

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[drgrant]

I don't know why they just don't swap in a sheet of white or frosted plastic corrugated roofing in place of the tin.

Because that stuff costs real money compared to an empty soda bottle.

-Mike

 

[Blitz1]

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[Blitz1]

How does the rat know what weed smells like?

Sent from the Hyundai of the droids, the Samsung Replenish, using Tapatalk.

Wrong thread bud. You had me reply to your post. Stop that.

 

[Coyote33]

Because that stuff costs real money compared to an empty soda bottle.

No, I meant when they built the roof in the first place. In fact, I bet the plastic is less expensive than the tin.

 

[Finalygotabeltfed]

You can get something similar to those here as well, though the pricing is, well, "different".

Customer reviews for 10 in. Pitched Rigid Sun Tunnel Tubular Skylight Acrylic Dom

VELUX 14 in. Low Profile Flexible Sun Tunnel Tubular Skylight Acrylic Dome

I don't know why they just don't swap in a sheet of white or frosted plastic corrugated roofing in place of the tin.


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A house designed with daylight in mind

Thats American thinking, the people in the video for the most part don't know where their next meal is coming from, let alone have the money for corrugated plastic. Soda bottles are pretty much free and do the job.

 

[MisterHappy]

guess the yankees have gone east - "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without."

 

[SteelShooter]

The idea came from MIT students

Designed and developed by students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Solar Bottle Bulb is based on the principles of Appropriate Technologies – a concept that provides simple and easily replicable technologies that address basic needs in developing communities.

http://isanglitrongliwanag.org/

 

[peteyb]

Wow that is amazing

 

[P-14]

Note to self: We may need this in 10 years when we are all living in hovels because it costs too much for electricity!

 

[Business]

great idea maybe he can get himself out of the ghetto with the income from his soda bottle lights. When the guy said it cut his electric bill in half i couldn't believe it, those people live in those shacks and have bills for them its crazy