 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
 23995 Posts
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Sunday, August 14, 2011 7:48:09 PM
I saw these in there 3 days ago and wondered wat was goin on. O Manila is awesome |
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 sugarfreee
Female, 18-29, Europe
171 Posts
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Friday, August 12, 2011 1:58:11 AM
how would you turn off the light? |
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 last_metroid
Female, 18-29, Canada
87 Posts
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Tuesday, August 09, 2011 1:59:36 PM
That's amazing, good for them! :) |
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 x13purplesta
Female, 30-39, Canada
233 Posts
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Monday, August 08, 2011 9:01:08 PM
I can't imagine living in the dark all day long and I guess I never thought anyone was. Kudos to the people making this happen. |
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 thehitcher
Male, 18-29, Western US
237 Posts
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Monday, August 08, 2011 8:18:21 PM
this was also used in basements of businesses in seattle with the glass prisms |
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 slut_etta
Female, 50-59, Southern US
2140 Posts
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Monday, August 08, 2011 2:05:47 PM
this was done in clipper ships using glass prisms 200+ years ago |
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 phoenix6
Female, 18-29, Australia
409 Posts
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Monday, August 08, 2011 1:56:47 PM
@Thetas: One of the families they spoke to had 8 kids or so. Clearly, they don't use much light at night anyway. |
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 fukko
Male, 18-29, Western US
27 Posts
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Monday, August 08, 2011 1:01:24 PM
I thought of it but then i told myself this idea is garbage...
... Get it? |
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 McGovern1981
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
10244 Posts
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Monday, August 08, 2011 12:41:26 PM
@number43
REALLY!! So those machines I've been putting my soda bottles into magically put them back together after they've been shredded to bits?? |
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 Quackor
Male, 18-29, S. America
2666 Posts
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Monday, August 08, 2011 9:51:38 AM
maybe no one thought of it because smart people dont live in a dump? |
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 Thetas
Male, 18-29, Western US
1536 Posts
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Monday, August 08, 2011 9:16:43 AM
It's awesome, because it lights up the inside of a building... During the day... When it's bright outside... You know... When it's not night... When is when you really need light... Everyone following? |
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andybme
Male, 50-59, Western US
290 Posts
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Monday, August 08, 2011 5:54:59 AM
So they installed skylights, good idea. |
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 MightyPeanut
Male, 30-39, Canada
407 Posts
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Sunday, August 07, 2011 10:48:57 PM
Pee in the bottle for ambiance.. |
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 Errand_boy
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
623 Posts
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Sunday, August 07, 2011 10:05:55 PM
Now you're going to get wet when you hit it with your Wii remote. Is that a good trade off.
No, really, thats an awesome idea, track lighting will spruce up any drab room.
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 number43
Female, 70 & Over, Asia
758 Posts
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Sunday, August 07, 2011 8:40:31 PM
Where did they get the bottles, you may ask. The answer...wait for it... Those are the plastic bottles you thought you were recycling, which were actually shipped off to third world countries and dumped into their land fills! |
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 jinxiejae
Female, 30-39, Western US
2473 Posts
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Sunday, August 07, 2011 8:26:41 PM
i wonder if the liter bottles would be to heavy? |
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 tryit0nce
Female, 18-29, Canada
100 Posts
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Sunday, August 07, 2011 6:39:28 PM
@shredder... really? Reaaalllyyy??? |
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 Dethy84
Male, 18-29, Europe
2 Posts
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Sunday, August 07, 2011 6:38:12 PM
i got an idea forget the bleach water, what about plastic roofs? |
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shredder89
Male, 18-29, S. America
6 Posts
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Sunday, August 07, 2011 6:27:34 PM
wouldn´t it be easier to give them freaking light bulbs? if the problem is not having enough energy, this isn´t the solution... 20 to 60 watts and lasts 5 five years. It´s cheaper to buy a low consumption 20w lamp that lasts longer... |
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typ3
Male, 18-29, Europe
19 Posts
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Sunday, August 07, 2011 5:19:16 PM
@darkmagic14n
you would be right if the top wasn't closed so no gasses can come out. The bleach/clorine dissepates from pools water in gas form. So in the case of these bottles it won't be that big a problem, because just small amounts of gas can get trough plastic at a time. |
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demonveteran
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
235 Posts
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Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:31:46 PM
awesome! |
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darkmagic14n
Male, 18-29, Western US
1634 Posts
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Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:26:52 PM
the bleach is kind of useless (prevent algae). without a stabilizer of some sort, the bleach will be broken down from the sunlight (quite quickly I might add). even with a stabilizer, you're looking at a week tops for a 10% solution of bleach.
think of it as a swimming pool where the bleach = chlorine. you don't add chlorine once every 6 months, if you did that, you would have a swamp in your yard after not even a month.
and the light would disperse even better if they had some sediment in the bottle (like some salt; yes the bleach adds some salt to the water (sodium hypochlorite) |
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 ryan99
Male, 13-17, Western US
2349 Posts
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Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:23:56 PM
Lol @ I-See-U, no kidding. I feel like this should have been the first step EVER in harvesting light :P
Still though, this is very cool, very efficient. |
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 kairobert
Male, 18-29, Europe
1634 Posts
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Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:21:55 PM
"brilliant! too bad the invention came 100 years after electricity."
Also after the invention of plastics and mass produced glass. |
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I-See-U
Male, 18-29, Southern US
354 Posts
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Sunday, August 07, 2011 3:26:48 PM
brilliant! too bad the invention came 100 years after electricity. |
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