You can manufacture fish-eye glass domes that sit on the surface and lead to mirror-walled tubes that parascopically carry the sunlight to the deeper into the catacombs and distribute it to each chamber.
The outlets could basically just be slightly convex glass discs to fill the whole space with light, with simple aperture adjustments to control the amount of light in the room.
Similar concept, except using mirror-walled empty tubes instead of strands of clear fiber. It’s not for transmitting data, just distributing natural light.
I have seen at least plans, and I think it’s actually been done, for using fiber optic cables connected to a skylight to transfer sunlight to rooms that otherwise wouldn’t be able to have any.
Nothing about fiber optic cables are about data specifically. It’s just a cable that transmits light in a very similar way a tunnel with mirrors would (but better). It happens to be very useful for data, but it’s just sending light through it that’s interpreted as data at the other end.
Right, because fiberoptic cables are made up of little tiny strands of clear fiber, so that each one can have an “on” and an “off” status, creating the potential for high-speed data transfer.
What I’m saying is that these ducts don’t need that, because they don’t need to send billions of 1s and 0s per second. Just plain, natural light, which can be achieved without the fiber.
Fiber optics transmit data through the medium of light, not electricity. It is exactly the same thing. The inside of the fiber optic cable is reflective and works just like a tube of mirrors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-optic_communication
I don’t remember where, but i’ve seen architecture that moved natural sunlight throughout the whole complex. If anyone knows it, i would be thrilled to revisit that.
Edit: i remember it used mirrors to move the sunlight, if that helps.
Yeah, that’s true.
But in Mexico the remaining water is less likely to be hoarded by billionaires, so you might still have better access to water after all.
Can we make communities that are underground? Like fallout or silo
Humans don’t do very well without exposure to sunlight.
You can manufacture fish-eye glass domes that sit on the surface and lead to mirror-walled tubes that parascopically carry the sunlight to the deeper into the catacombs and distribute it to each chamber.
The outlets could basically just be slightly convex glass discs to fill the whole space with light, with simple aperture adjustments to control the amount of light in the room.
Aren’t you just describing fiber optic cables?
Similar concept, except using mirror-walled empty tubes instead of strands of clear fiber. It’s not for transmitting data, just distributing natural light.
I have seen at least plans, and I think it’s actually been done, for using fiber optic cables connected to a skylight to transfer sunlight to rooms that otherwise wouldn’t be able to have any.
Nothing about fiber optic cables are about data specifically. It’s just a cable that transmits light in a very similar way a tunnel with mirrors would (but better). It happens to be very useful for data, but it’s just sending light through it that’s interpreted as data at the other end.
Right, because fiberoptic cables are made up of little tiny strands of clear fiber, so that each one can have an “on” and an “off” status, creating the potential for high-speed data transfer.
What I’m saying is that these ducts don’t need that, because they don’t need to send billions of 1s and 0s per second. Just plain, natural light, which can be achieved without the fiber.
Fiber optics transmit data through the medium of light, not electricity. It is exactly the same thing. The inside of the fiber optic cable is reflective and works just like a tube of mirrors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-optic_communication
That doesn’t contradict anything I said. When did I mention electricity?
Fiberoptics are made of fiber. The ducts I described are empty inside.
I don’t remember where, but i’ve seen architecture that moved natural sunlight throughout the whole complex. If anyone knows it, i would be thrilled to revisit that.
Edit: i remember it used mirrors to move the sunlight, if that helps.
Take your daily vitamin D pill!