DIY Solar Lights!

[hikatz]

This is an update from 2013 news article, YouTube has videos on how to make the lights.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/plas...0eb1968bb5

[terracore]

Just don't aim the light towards the property line, or else the villagers will grab their torches and pitchforks.

[MarkP]

Clever, and in a world without alternatives, possibly very useful. I can think of alternatives though. I see corrugated roof iron in the pictures. One household that I spend time in has corrugated roof iron with matching corrugated translucent roofing. granted the bottles are free but somehow they afforded the roof iron and cutting a hole in the roof to plug it with a flimsy plastic bottle? You would have to pay me to do that.

ETA: I hate electric lights made to look like an old fashioned lantern with the light going in all directions. A light employing an actual flame has to do that. An electric light does not and that is one of the major advantages of an electric light.