Lights of the future :)

[Len]

We've heard of surphur lamps. But check these out!
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/ ... ubefrm.htm

"Bottled sunlight"

 

[Anonymous]

And the pilot program is right in my backyard! I wonder how hard it would be to "accquire" it from SMUD? :twisted:

Cool story Len!

 

[Anonymous]

according to researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

And you wonder why the US has a budget problem... see what they could have done is just look over across the pond to japan who did/does this sort of thing atleast a decade ago.

edit: scratch that... two decades

In the early 1980s, researchers in Japan developed a precursor to hybrid lighting systems.

http://www.archlighting.com/architectur ... id=2090437

 

[Anonymous]

There was a Greek project about a decade ago on the very same thing. Nothing innovative, but sure make a few impressible people very excited when it resurfaces every other year...

 

[Anonymous]

completely not reef related.. i was watching some '05 builders show and some of the new building materials are using fiber optics.
they had some blocks that appeared to be cinderblocks but they had fibers running through them so oyu could see someone walking behind a wall if the lighting was in your favor... they wooud see only a cinderblock wall.


cool stuff.

 

[Anonymous]

according to researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

And you wonder why the US has a budget problem... see what they could have done is just look over across the pond to japan who did/does this sort of thing atleast a decade ago.

edit: scratch that... two decades

In the early 1980s, researchers in Japan developed a precursor to hybrid lighting systems.

http://www.archlighting.com/architectur ... id=2090437

IT seems that they have refined what the Japainise did to make it more of a potiential comercial product. I like the idea.

 

[HClH2OFish]

completely not reef related.. i was watching some '05 builders show and some of the new building materials are using fiber optics.
they had some blocks that appeared to be cinderblocks but they had fibers running through them so oyu could see someone walking behind a wall if the lighting was in your favor... they wooud see only a cinderblock wall.


cool stuff.

but not for the price....it's like 61k per cubic meter of stuff...compared to $61 for standard. Saw it in This old house magazine yesterday at the Drs. office...

(but it is cool)

 

[Anonymous]

Wazzle, oh totally, that's the whole definition of innovation right there, building the better mouse trap. I don't know if its that article writer who thought this was new or if the Oak Ridge boys who thought they invented it, but if its the later it really makes me wonder.

 

[Anonymous]

completely not reef related.. i was watching some '05 builders show and some of the new building materials are using fiber optics.
they had some blocks that appeared to be cinderblocks but they had fibers running through them so oyu could see someone walking behind a wall if the lighting was in your favor... they wooud see only a cinderblock wall.


cool stuff.

but not for the price....it's like 61k per cubic meter of stuff...compared to $61 for standard. Saw it in This old house magazine yesterday at the Drs. office...

(but it is cool)

61k?

that is just dumb... who would pay that?

 

[Oceans Ferevh]

I think that it's the same people who are buying the Lords right now

 

[Anonymous]

Wazzle, oh totally, that's the whole definition of innovation right there, building the better mouse trap. I don't know if its that article writer who thought this was new or if the Oak Ridge boys who thought they invented it, but if its the later it really makes me wonder.

It is almost always the scientific writer who got no clue.

 

[buff1]

I found this site at Oak Ridge National Lab. This link indicates that a square meter system could cost just $2000.

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/hybridlighting/table3.htm

 

[Anonymous]

http://www.reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.p ... 071#702071

 

[Anonymous]

Wow.. 50000lumens per square meter.. yikes! Considering you could get away with a couple t8 32watt bulbs that would be about 1/10th that, and cost about $5 I dunno how viable this is.. besides you'll still need the lights for when the sun goes down.

 

[leftovers]

Wow.. 50000lumens per square meter.. yikes! Considering you could get away with a couple t8 32watt bulbs that would be about 1/10th that, and cost about $5 I dunno how viable this is.. besides you'll still need the lights for when the sun goes down.

not if you dont use the space when the sun goes down....which would be some 75% of the office space today....so you could install minimum lighting

also this hybrid lighting generates power which can be stored or sold so 2K per meter for 5K lumens would be a bargin in areas where sunlight is plentiful and power expensive....