Water bottle lights illuminate millions of homes

(scienceinfo.net) - It is a bright idea! Brazilian mechanic Alfredo Moser uses a plastic bottle filled with water, bleach and the principle of reflections to illuminate rooms that lack light throughout the day.

His invention will be used in more than 1 million homes by the end of this year and he is glorious with the changing lives of poor people.

The mechanic had the idea for the 'Moser' lamp (the lamp named after this mechanic) during an hour of frequent blackouts in his home in the city of Uberaba, southern Brazil in 2002. .

Alfredo Moser used plastic water bottles and little bleach to light up his room since 2002 and now this idea has spread all over the world.

It is predicted that his lighting system, a reflex-only operating system, will be used in millions of homes by the end of the year.

The secret of the liquid contained in plastic bottles, which we often throw away, are two tablespoons of bleach added to the water, which will prevent the water from turning green due to algae when exposed to sunlight. .

Mr. Moser drilled a hole in a roof tile and then pushed the bottle filled with water from the bottom up, the bottle fixed with polyester resin, making it impossible to penetrate the 'window' with the bottle. this country in my room.

He told BBC World Servie that, depending on the intensity of the sunlight, this Moser lamp could illuminate the equivalent of a 40 to 60W light bulb.

Alfredo Moser said that in his hometown in Uberaba, southern Brazil, only factories had electricity during the low energy season.

Moser told BBC World Service: 'It is a wonderful lamp. God gives sunlight to everyone, and light is for everyone. Anyone who wants it to save money. You won't be shocked by it, and it won't cost you a cent. '

Mr. Moser earned a few dollars by installing light bulbs at the local supermarket and at the neighbors' apartments, but his invention did not turn him into a wealthy person.

He said: 'There was a man, who had installed the lights and within a month he had saved enough to pay for the essentials for his children, the children were born. Can you imagine it? '

His wife, Mrs. Carmelinda, said her husband was very skillful and often made his own furniture and made both tables and chairs.

Illac Angelo Diaz, production director of MyShelter Company in the Philippines admires Moser's ingenuity.

The charity uses recycled materials to build houses and there are countless donated bottles, filled with mud to build walls and bottles filled with water to make windows.

Now the water bottles are combined on the roof of Moser's study and also teach the local people how to create such things in order to make a small sum of money.

Moser lamps have been used on more than 140,000 homes in the Philippines, where a quarter of the population lives in poverty, just as in 15 other countries, including Argentina, India, and Fiji.

Diaz believes more than a million people have installed Moser lamps in 2013 and believe the mechanic has contributed to changing the lives of many people around the world.

"Whether or not to receive a Nobel Prize, we want Moser to know that countless people admire what he is doing ," Diaza said.

Mr. Moser told the BBC that he had never imagined that his invention had such an impact, but he felt very proud to think of so many people using his Moser lamps.