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Re: Great use for recycled plastic bottles - Rolando - 09-13-2011 A cheap, low (er) tech version of solar tubes! Two thumbs up! ![]() ![]() More http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=solar+tubes&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=41l2082l0l2376l11l9l0l2l2l1l310l1622l1.1.4.1l7l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1298&bih=918&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi Re: Great use for recycled plastic bottles - ArtP - 09-13-2011 GGD wrote: Pretty sure it's just to keep the water from turning cloudy. I do wonder how the light output is impacted over time as the outdoor part of the bottle gets scratched and scuffed from exposure. Light + water = algae Bleach probably keeps algae from growing in the bottle. Re: Great use for recycled plastic bottles - M>B> - 09-13-2011 That is all great, but if you want to move over water... http://articles.cnn.com/2009-03-09/tech/plastic.bottle.boat_1_plastic-bottles-rothschild-recycled?_s=PM:TECH Imagine collecting thousands of empty plastic bottles, lashing them together to make a boat and sailing the thing from California to Australia, a journey of 11,000 miles (17,700 km) through treacherous seas. You'd have to be crazy, or trying to make a point. David de Rothschild is trying to make a point. De Rothschild hopes his one-of-a-kind vessel, now being built on a San Francisco pier, will boost recycling of plastic bottles, which he says are a symbol of global waste. Except for the masts, which are metal, everything on the 60-foot catamaran is made from recycled plastic. Re: Great use for recycled plastic bottles - Mike V - 09-13-2011 Not bad. |