Dear Mr Sen, Perhaps you are not aware of the leakages such piercing bottles into the roof will cause. This will be an everlasting Maintenance and repair cost and continuing day to day trouble for ever. Insiders will spend their time and energy in adjusting their cots and interior arrangements. Since I am also associated with building designs I am fully aware of the problems of this kind.
vns 2009/4/9, Swagat Sen <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > > Dear Dhiraj Mallick and Dr.V.N.Sharma, > > Thanks for responding to the post. > > I do not think it is a fanciful idea since it recycles something very > easily available , is completely maintenance cost free, and does not > involve any major alterations. > > Transparent sheets cost money , this may considerably improve standard > of living for people who cannot afford them. > > regards, > > Swagat Sen > > On 4/8/09, Dr.V.N. Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > > The technique used here looks as fanciful as a new idea. But it does > > not help find solutions of lighting. Shorter route of prevalent > > techniques of lighting such houses is the use of transparent fiber > > sheets in the roof in stead of corrugated steel or asbestos sheets. > > One has to make no holes nor a hanging fear of leakage through the > > roof if transparent sheets are used. This is already in use in many > > houses in India. > > > > vns > > > > 2009/4/7, dhirajrajumallik <[email protected]>: > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Dear Swagat Sen, > >> The information is really amazing. It is useful not only for slums it > >> useful everywhere. even it may be modified to reflect streetlights > during > >> night and work as a good night lamp. Thank you for such a nice > information > >> > >> Dhiraj Mallik > >> --- In [email protected], Swagat Sen <swagat...@...> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hello everyone :) > >> > > >> > This information may be of use...how to use 2 liter soda/water bottle > >> > to give 50 watts of light : > >> > > >> > http://welcomeindia.posterous.com/ > >> > > >> > I see use in slums/village houses...quality of life will improve quite > >> > a bit...for free. > >> > > >> > regards, > >> > > >> > Swagat Sen > >> > > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > "Those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act." Albert > > Einstein > > > > Dr.V.N.Sharma > > http://canvas.nowpos.com/vnsharma > > > > -- "Those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act." Albert Einstein Dr.V.N.Sharma http://canvas.nowpos.com/vnsharma
