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Suppose you have a single centrally located light source in your house, okay? Just one single bulb. Let's say it's an LED bulb.
Okay, now suppose you fed the light output of this single bulb to all the other rooms of your house with fiber optic cables so when the light was turned on it's light output could be shared with all the other rooms of the house. If you wanted light in one room but not in another you could simply pull a little sliding cover over where the exits the fiber optic cable in the ceiling.
Now imagine a centrally located light source within a large subdivision or community. And the light output of thus light source was connected using fiber optics to all the houses in that community.
When light is split like this and transported over such minimal distances through fiber optic cables, is there any degradation of lumen output?
Edit: i just did a google search and see this kind of lighting is already available for homes. But fiber optic cables are still very expensive. I guess we'll have to wait until the price ever goes down.
Last edited by Shankapotomus; 05-13-2011 at 07:26 PM..
Actually, a few years back there was an idea of doing something similar with a halogen or xenon lamp encased within a water heater. When the lamp was on supplying light, it was also heating the water at no additional cost.
Actually, a few years back there was an idea of doing something similar with a halogen or xenon lamp encased within a water heater. When the lamp was on supplying light, it was also heating the water at no additional cost.
Heating water with lamps? That's a good idea. I will remember that when I build my Eco-house.
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