Self Sufficiency: Sunlight In A Bottle Provides "Light" Indoors - All For Free!

Sunlight in a Bottle? Its Real, and its Changing Millions of Lives‏

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Alfredo Moser’s invention is lighting up the world.

In 2002, the Brazilian mechanic had a light-bulb moment and came up with a way of illuminating his house during the day without electricity – using nothing more than filled with water and a tiny bit of bleach.

In the last two years his innovation has spread throughout the world. It is expected to be in one million homes by early next year.  So how does it work? Simple refraction of sunlight, explains Moser, as he fills an empty two-litre plastic bottle.

Sunlight in a Bottle Its Real, and its Changing Millions of Lives‏

“Add two capfuls of bleach to protect the water so it doesn’t turn green [with algae]. The cleaner the bottle, the better,” he adds. Wrapping his face in a cloth he makes a hole in a with a drill. Then, from the bottom upwards, he pushes the bottle into the newly-made hole.

“You fix the bottle in with polyester resin. Even when it rains, the roof never leaks – not one drop.”

The inspiration for the “Moser lamp” came to him during one of the country’s frequent electricity blackouts in 2002. “The only places that had energy were the factories – not people’s houses,” he says, talking about the city where he lives, Uberaba, in southern Brazil.

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The best with a black cap – a film case can also be used

“An engineer came and measured the light,” he says. “It depends on how strong the sun is but it’s more or less 40 to 60 watts,” he says.

While he does a few dollars installing them, it’s obvious from his simple house and his 1974 car that his hasn’t made him wealthy. What it has given him is a great sense of pride.

How much energy do the lamps save?

  • The plastic bottles are up-cycled in the local community, so no energy is needed to gather, shred, manufacture and ship new bottles
  • The carbon footprint of the manufacture of one incandescent bulb is 0.45kg CO2
  • A 50 Watt light bulb running for 14 hours a day for a year has a carbon footprint of nearly 200kg CO2
  • Moser lamps emit no CO2

Following the Moser method, MyShelter started making the lamps in June 2011. They now train people to create and the bottles, in order to earn a small income.

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.
The idea has also caught on in about 15 other countries, from India and Bangladesh, to Tanzania, Argentina and Fiji.

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In 2002, the Brazilian mechanic had a light-bulb moment and came up with a way of illuminating his house during the day without electricity – using nothing more than a plastic water bottle filled with water and a of bleach.

In the last two years his innovation has spread throughout the world. It is expected to be in one million homes by early next year.  So how does it work? Simple refraction of sunlight, explains Moser, as he fills an empty two-litre plastic bottle.

Sunlight in a Bottle Its Real, and its Changing Millions of Lives‏

“Add two capfuls of bleach to protect the water so it doesn’t turn green [with algae]. The cleaner the bottle, the better,” he adds. Wrapping his face in a cloth he makes a hole in a with a drill. Then, from the bottom upwards, he pushes the bottle into the newly-made hole.

“You fix the bottle in with polyester resin. Even when it rains, the roof never leaks – not one drop.”

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