791
Primitive innovation in lighting
One million houses of the poor in the Philippines by 2012, must be equipped with innovative and at the same time primitive lamps that operate without lights and electricity.
About three million Filipinos still live without any lights. Inside their huts equally dark night and day. Shacks have no electricity is not something that - in them, and the windows do not. The idea is to hold sunlight these dwellings using conventional plastic bottles, mounted in the roof.
The design is simple defiantly. In a piece of sheet metal, holes the diameter of the bottle. It is securely fixed plastic container with putty and then filled with water and a drop of bleach (to prevent water from mutnela any infection).
The lid is sealed with the same putty and tin with a bottle close a small portion of the roof exploded. Less than an hour of work, and the lamp is ready to work up to five years: water diffuses rays around the room, a bottle shines like a light bulb 50-60 watts.
Social Project Isang Litrong Liwanag («Liter of Light") implements the Philippines Foundation, "My refuge» (MyShelter Foundation) under the leadership of philanthropist Illak Diaz (Illac Diaz). In July, the organizers report about installing 10,000 of these fixtures, therefore, there is still a lot of work.
About three million Filipinos still live without any lights. Inside their huts equally dark night and day. Shacks have no electricity is not something that - in them, and the windows do not. The idea is to hold sunlight these dwellings using conventional plastic bottles, mounted in the roof.
The design is simple defiantly. In a piece of sheet metal, holes the diameter of the bottle. It is securely fixed plastic container with putty and then filled with water and a drop of bleach (to prevent water from mutnela any infection).
The lid is sealed with the same putty and tin with a bottle close a small portion of the roof exploded. Less than an hour of work, and the lamp is ready to work up to five years: water diffuses rays around the room, a bottle shines like a light bulb 50-60 watts.
Social Project Isang Litrong Liwanag («Liter of Light") implements the Philippines Foundation, "My refuge» (MyShelter Foundation) under the leadership of philanthropist Illak Diaz (Illac Diaz). In July, the organizers report about installing 10,000 of these fixtures, therefore, there is still a lot of work.
