Pumping Sunlight Into Homes

ByronScott sends a snippet from Inhabitat that begins "What if you could light your entire building using no electricity or artificial lights – but just the natural light from our favorite star, the Sun? Enter the Sundolier, a powerful sunlight transport system that's like putting a solar robot on your roof to pump sunlight indoors. The manufacturer claims a single Sundolier unit can provide enough light to illuminate a 1,000-2,500 sq. ft. area [93-232 sq. m] without any other sources." The company's website is a bit thin on details, such as what happens on cloudy days, or how many days of sunlight per year on average are needed for the device to perform acceptably.

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Re:There are no details

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If you are worrying about the tiny bit of VOC's from your houses wiring, then I better not tell you about what your carpet and the wood in your house is outgassing. or the paint on the walls (yes even the "enviro-junk" they sell to try and placate people like you).

I'm worried about all of that shit, frankly. Not so worried that I won't rent a house with stupid carpet, but worried enough to where I would never put it in. You can use milk paints which are not only VOC-free, but also don't bleed anything else toxic, either. Further, they last longer than stupid toxic paints that you buy at the home despot... which also sells no-VOC housepaints, of course. The actual plan is to build with earth bags and mud plaster.

Oh and dont get me started about the impurity of the gypsum in your wall board.....

I would never build anything with sheet rock. That stuff is fucking disgusting. Everywhere I want to live it always eventually becomes little more than a mold substrate. I want to build an earthbag+mud plaster home topped with decks and greenhouses (made of glass and metal) rather than living in one of these stupid overprocessed shit shacks that continually drains one's wallet. The one I'm in now is about to need a new roof, probably mostly because it flops all over hell every time there's an earthquake because it was inadequately triangulated and rests on a pair of disconnected concrete slabs, which is about the most retarded thing I've ever heard. But at least it was built before that run of Chinese sheet rock made from unpurified fly ash that was sweating toxics and killing people.