Edith Wharton
Sunlight Without Windows
Dec 7, 2007-- A handful of buildings in California are beginning to try a new kind of indoor lighting: sunlight without windows! It's called Hybrid Solar Lighting -- half solar and half electric. During the day, sunlight pours out of the light fixture; at night, a conventional light bulb takes over. On the roof is a large dish that points at the sun and concentrates the sun into the end of the fiber bundle. The sunlight bounces once off the big mirrored dish, then off of a smaller secondary mirror, which focuses everything down into the fiber. (2489 reads)
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