Sunlight-powered 'bulbs' made from plastic bottles light up homes !
The Liter of Light project, launched to combat the rising cost of
electricity in the Philippines, aims to provide 1 million homes with
light.
In a country where 40% of the
population lives off less than $2 a day, the rising cost of power leaves
many unable to afford electricity. Some use candles as a light source,
but when generations of family members share a small, dark space in
shanty towns, accidental and destructive fires are often the result.
The Liter of Light project
was launched six months ago by the My Shelter Foundation, a
Philippines-based NGO which aims to provide light to 1 million of the
roughly 12 million homes who are either still without light or live on
the threshold of having their electricity shut down.
The scheme uses plastic bottles
filled with a solution of bleached water, installed into holes made in
shanty towns' corrugated iron roofs, which then refracts the equivalent
of 55W of sunlight into the room – during the day, at least. It takes
five minutes to make, and using a hammer, rivet, metal sheets, sandpaper
and epoxy, it costs $1 to produce.
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