Waterbottle Floodlights
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Ingenious usage for old water bottles from Brazil. Pierce the ceiling and let the natural sunlight disperse and flood the room!
It’s in Portuguese, but you can get the idea for the concept from watching it.
Additional tags (ignore): Brasil Brasileiro Brazillian
Duration : 0:2:37
It’s not the film. …
It’s not the film. It’s just the canister that 35mm film comes in. some are clear, but most are black with a grey snap-on lid.
It’s just a film …
It’s just a film canister. The kind that 35mm film comes in. According to this, they don’t degrade in the sunlight (or maybe they do and are just sacrificial) and so protect the drink bottle caps that do degrade from breaking. It looks like this would be to keep the water in the bottle from evaporating after the cap breaks from being in direct sun and weather all the time.
Let me get this …
Let me get this straight. People are using the sun for light now?
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What’s the black …
What’s the black tube he places over the bottles’ caps? Is that a crucial part of the process?
How about …
How about indoor-work at day?
how do you get a …
how do you get a watertight seal, tho? what keeps it from leaking like crazy when it rains? do they talk about that? plain caulk wouldn’t work, would it?
That’s incredible! …
That’s incredible! Now if we can just get people in the US to use them…though it’s from my experience that many people here seem to have this unseated phobia of natural lighting. My own mother used to yell at me if I turned a light off in favor of opening the blinds…
Thanks, Nightripper …
Thanks, Nightripper–and to Christianmarquez, too. I love new information!
It just protects …
It just protects the cap from getting destroyed by the sun.
wow.. thats so …
wow.. thats so sweet
OBAH”!!!o que o …
OBAH”!!!o que o brazuca inventa pra melhorar a barraca!!!!
Yeah, because if …
Yeah, because if they want to use sunlight, it’’s because they don’t have electricity.
It’s really about saving energy, why would you want to pay for electricity if you don’t have to?
Caulking. It’s why …
Caulking. It’s why you windows and roof pipes don’t leak. That’s surely what they use, as it is super common.
They’re not …
They’re not supposed to work at night, they’re supposed to replace lightbulbs during the day, as demonstrated from 2:10.
Its ingenious, except for water leaking. Wonder how that can be solved as simply?
To anyone who knows …
To anyone who knows what they’re talking about: Please explain how something ~2in. diamater can collect that much sunlight. It doesn’t make sense.
Good luck keeping …
Good luck keeping the insects & rainwater out. Oh, and make sure to keep a healthy stock of candles for when the sun sets.
you could use some …
you could use some aquarium grade silicone caulk. though that wouldn’t be ideal, it works good enough for a place like brazil
2:09 Dude, that is …
2:09 Dude, that is wicked. The water bottles are much better than the regular lighting.
They’d use regular …
They’d use regular lights, I suppose. But it’s still a pretty good idea, considering most people use lighting during the day anyways.
HAHAHA
Dude, what …
HAHAHA
Dude, what are the chances…
What up tyler? take …
What up tyler? take it you were on reddit.. lol
what about at night?
what about at night?
actually the Clorox …
actually the Clorox just makes sure algae doesn’t grow in the water…
Uh… yes.
This is …
Uh… yes.
This is a piece of photographic film rolled to protect the bottle cap from the sun. Otherwhise the plastic cap could rot.