Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle

New submitter DancesWithWolves writes "The BBC reports on Alfredo Moser, who came up with a way of illuminating his house during the day without electricity — using nothing more than plastic bottles filled with water and a tiny bit of bleach. In the last two years his idea has spread throughout the world. It is expected to be in one million homes by early next year.'"

Comments

Simple and zero energy cost

[StuartHankins]

Elegant and no energy costs. It recycles something we all have handy. Easy to install also. Hard to argue with all those benefits!

So the solution . . .

[dmatos]

to illuminating a house with no windows is . . . to add windows? Wow.

I mean, some kudos are deserved for finding an inexpensive (almost free) way to add windows, and using windows whose shape provides some refractory scattering of the incoming light. Still though, his solution to no windows was literally TO ADD WINDOWS.