When visitors are entering the IDM tent exhibition, the first they see is Mr. Vasanthkumar Mysorematt adjusting several mirrors to light up a miniature house on his exhibition stand. His project – U-SEE: Unlimited Saving of Electrical Energy – proposes solar energy to limit use of electricity during day time and to light up rural houses at no cost.
He uses simple mirrors strategically placed outside windows or doors to redirect the sunlight to the white surface of the ceiling, which in turns reflects the rays of the sunlight to light up the house.
He says the main objective of his proposal is to limit misuse of electricity. “Millions of units of electricity are used during day time when the sun is shining. This misuse of electricity produced at high cost could be averted using this technology.”
The same technology could also be applied to light rural households that do not have electricity. “By doing so it will provide natural light to the women who currently cook under kerosene lamps. It will also help keep away house mites."
He has partnered with the Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd who is planning to pilot this technology in the state.
Thu, 06/07/2007 - 02:43
good wishes for your efforts Sir.
Wed, 06/06/2007 - 03:14
brilliant... literally! :)
Sat, 06/02/2007 - 17:44
Thank you Jan for your blog on U-SEE. I am honoured. Even though I lost out, my vision is not blurred. In fact I will be spending some of my pension money to buy mirors, go over to rural areas, distribute them freely to the poorest of the poor, explain, demonstrate and place the mirors in strategic places and get back home. Even in urban areas where they boast of green buildings, people are seen burning bulbs and misusing electricity during day time when the sun is shining. My aim is to bring home the sunshine and get moonlight effect inside the premises with the help of sunlight. The world is round. We shall meet some day. Vasanthkumar Mysoremath
Wed, 05/30/2007 - 06:57
I would like Mr Vasanthkumar Mysorematt of U-SEE to see beyond one village and consider the possibility of lighting up the whole planet by ujsing ginat mirrors to reflect sunlight from the eastern longitudes to those on the west. So China can light up till its dusk much of Central Asia, and Central Asia can light up Eastern Europe, which, in its turn, can light up France, Germany and England. And there can be mirror clusters in the middle of the Atlantic to help Manhattan switch off its steet lights and even domestic and office interior lights for quite some time.
But I think the entire exercise of mirroring the dark makes little economic sense. Most of domestic/commercial energy is consumed not in lighting but in thermal functions, like air-conditioning; mechanical functions, like running escalators and underground trains; and in running office equipment, like photo-copiers, computers, programmed glow signs on signboards, etc. To convert reflected light into energy for such diverse uses will require very advanced photovoltaic cells with prohibitice capital costs.
Wed, 06/20/2007 - 05:04
Good suggestion to light up the continents with clusters of mirrors. Very soon it may make economic sense? But right now we must stop misusing of electricity during day time. Sample the economic sense of U-SEE: ONE 40 vat GLS bulb burning for 25 hours consumes one unit of electricity; even if it burns for 6 hours a day between 8 am and 5 pm when the sun is shining 7 units are consumed in a month costing Rs.2 for domestic lighting and Rs.6 for commercial. thus if U-SEE method is used, electrical energy that accrues to the world = 7 units per month multiplied by 6 months(when actual sun shine will be available) multiplied 30,00,000 in Bangalore = 2,10,00,000 units of electrical energy is saved in just six months (population:60,00,000) Monetary savings to consumer = 7 unitsxRs.2x6 monthsx15,00,000 = Rs. 12,60,00,000, or 7 unitsxRs.6x6 months x 15,00,000= 37,80,00,000. Please note the above calculation is for only one 40 vat bulb ! This burning bulb is contributing CO2 for global warming. The billions of units thus saved thro U-SEE can help offset the load on other needs and help world to suffer less strain.