Alfredo Moser: Bottle light inventor proud to be poor

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23536914

 

[Virus]

Hope he wins the Nobel prize one day.

 

[papasmerf]

Providing light during the day

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Boing]

Why is he poor?.

 

[papasmerf]

Why is he poor?.

he invented a way to light a room during the day by filling a bottle with water, drilling a hole in the roof and epoxy the bottle in place

you tell me

 

[Boing]

he invented a way to light a room during the day by filling a bottle with water, drilling a hole in the roof and epoxy the bottle in place

you tell me

Just one quote. I guess they don't have money to pay him for his idea. Doesn't say if it was patented or not.

In the Philippines, where a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line, and electricity is unusually expensive, the idea has really taken off, with Moser lamps now fitted in 140,000 homes.

 

[papasmerf]

Just one quote. I guess they don't have money to pay him for his idea. Doesn't say if it was patented or not.

In the Philippines, where a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line, and electricity is unusually expensive, the idea has really taken off, with Moser lamps now fitted in 140,000 homes.

cool
but a window would do the same

 

[Boing]

cool
but a window would do the same

Glad I don't have to argue or debate with you at the dinner table :whip:

 

[papasmerf]

Glad I don't have to argue or debate with you at the dinner table :whip:

only place I need lights during the day is my basement

just can not see pop bottles glued through my roof doing much

 

[MEAT]

He is poor but happy.

Odd :unknw:

 

[papasmerf]

He is poor but happy.

Odd :unknw:

back in the day I invented fire

went to the patent office and realized no one had invented that

If I were thinking at time, today you would apply for a smerflicense instead of a patent

 

[Transient]

The application of this light is to provide light in shanty towns where sheet metal construction is the main building material and windows aren't an option. Windows are great if they are just laying around or if you have money to purchase and install them. His design is simple, effective and uses cheap, or free, readily available materials to provide light in dark places.