Lighting Solution for the 3rd World

I don't care what anybody says... this is too cool.

http://www.wimp.com/lightenup/

Mike

 

I've seen this before........but what a great idea!

 

Very neat.

 

I'm going up on my roof today to install a couple hundred of them!

 

Cool and ingenious

 

Brilliant.

 

Why add the bleach? Why not just H2O?

 

I saw a report about that project before. The bleach is there to keep anything from growing in there. Otherwise, a bottle full of cozy warm water (due to the sun) would be full of algae and all kinds of bad stuff in no time.

 

To keep the water free of organisms like algae.

 

I was happy watching this. Good for them!

 

awesome!

 

Thats what I figured.

 

Wow, who knew...good for them...very cool.

 

That's awesome!!! It's a great solution for those ares where electricity is too expensive or impossible to come by.

 

Necessity is the mother of invention - very well done!

 

Solar ovens are supposed to be a major player in stopping deforestation where trees are cut to produce charcoal for cooking.
Basically reflective foil on cardboard.

 

That's cool.

 

This idea was very popular on older sailboats. They were called "deck prisms".

But, this is a cool trick for developing nations.

 

I like it!

what was the teaspoon of stuff they added, I couldn't hear?

 

Bleach. Now don't ask why

 

I worked with a guy back in the 70s that traveled to Africa to teach the locals about the "Solar Box".

 

Clever. Kinda makes you wonder why no one thought of it before.

 

I suspect to kill any algae that would bloom in the hot sunny water. Makes sense.

 

I thought they said chlorine...

 

Same thing

Bleach refers to a number of chemicals that remove color, whiten, or disinfect, often via oxidation. Common chemical bleaches include household chlorine bleach (a solution of approximately 3–6% sodium hypochlorite, NaClO)