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Hybrid lighting
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Has anyone heard of hybrid lighting. Its a method(I think developed in Japan) where a big silver satellite dish is place onto a roof then opric fibres tranmit the sun light and transport it to room below. I understand that this reduces lighting power consumption in large sky-scrapers. I'm interested to use this in my house to bring sunlight into the east facing rooms. I don't have the space to install a sunpipe but maybe optic-fibres will do. I'm interested to know if anyone has experience of this technology. Many Thanks Neil |
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wrote in message oups.com... Hello, Has anyone heard of hybrid lighting. Its a method(I think developed in Japan) where a big silver satellite dish is place onto a roof then opric fibres tranmit the sun light and transport it to room below. I understand that this reduces lighting power consumption in large sky-scrapers. I'm interested to use this in my house to bring sunlight into the east facing rooms. I don't have the space to install a sunpipe but maybe optic-fibres will do. I'm interested to know if anyone has experience of this technology. Many Thanks Neil Try: http://www.lightpipe.org.uk/index2.htm http://www.solalighting.com/ -- -- John |
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-- -- John "John" wrote in message ... wrote in message oups.com... Hello, Has anyone heard of hybrid lighting. Its a method(I think developed in Japan) where a big silver satellite dish is place onto a roof then opric fibres tranmit the sun light and transport it to room below. I understand that this reduces lighting power consumption in large sky-scrapers. I'm interested to use this in my house to bring sunlight into the east facing rooms. I don't have the space to install a sunpipe but maybe optic-fibres will do. I'm interested to know if anyone has experience of this technology. Many Thanks Neil Try: http://www.lightpipe.org.uk/index2.htm http://www.solalighting.com/ -- -- John Sorry - I realise that you have dismissed this arrangement. John |
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wrote: wrote: Hello, Has anyone heard of hybrid lighting. Its a method(I think developed in Japan) where a big silver satellite dish is place onto a roof then opric fibres tranmit the sun light and transport it to room below. I understand that this reduces lighting power consumption in large sky-scrapers. I'm interested to use this in my house to bring sunlight into the east facing rooms. I don't have the space to install a sunpipe but maybe optic-fibres will do. I'm interested to know if anyone has experience of this technology. Many Thanks Neil Theres also a much simpler cheaper technology that does something similar. http://www.builditsolar.com/Experime...fPart1/S88.htm But it looks really stupid and only works on South facing windows. |
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"Rob Morley" wrote in message t... In article .com wrote: wrote: Hello, Has anyone heard of hybrid lighting. Its a method(I think developed in Japan) where a big silver satellite dish is place onto a roof then opric fibres tranmit the sun light and transport it to room below. I understand that this reduces lighting power consumption in large sky-scrapers. I'm interested to use this in my house to bring sunlight into the east facing rooms. I don't have the space to install a sunpipe but maybe optic-fibres will do. I'm interested to know if anyone has experience of this technology. Many Thanks Neil Theres also a much simpler cheaper technology that does something similar. http://www.builditsolar.com/Experime...fPart1/S88.htm But it looks really stupid and only works on South facing windows. There's another way: using 'light-pipes' aka 'sun-pipes'. These are a large-ish diameter 'flexible' pipe with a highly reflective (mirrored) interior. The pipe protrudes through the roof - capped with a transparent dome- and light bounces from side to side and eventually downwards to spill out, and illuminate rooms, corridors etc. etc. I've seen some light pipes with an integral electric light fitted so one gets illumination after sundown. Also, some systems are fitted with a fresnel lens at the top of the pipe to bend the sun's rays down into the pipe. AIUI, the system was developed in Australia - [could just be the first place I heard of them]- and curiously they seemed to work (best) on the North facing roof sides -- Brian |
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