Daylight Bulbs from Plastic Bottles

Another one for the Appropedia

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Which is something that has caught on, and proliferated throughout the entire neighbourhood. What we need to do (now that 1/2 the human race have cellphones) is to hone the teaching-aids… video, text, diagrams etc etc such that information like this can be spread rapidly, globally.

While it may not be practical to overlap this with the Sodis water disinfection thing, it’s not a million miles away.

Speaking of which, here are some neat designs for bottles specifically for sodisifying.

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Which in some ways misses the point, but raises points of its own… maybe the way around dumping/recycling the billions of plastic containers that we throw away each years is to make them useful in their own right.

As an even more tangential aside, I bought a bottle of water here in NZ the other day – the container of which boasted it was made of cellulose… looked and felt (and tasted) just like a normal plastic water bottle. I left the empty container on the seat of my car in the sun – when I came back it had shrunk to the size of a lightbulb.

So that’ll be things going full circle. Kindof