Monday, October 15, 2012

LiTraCon (Light-Transmitting Concrete)


The world has great challenges and it needs useful solution for the challenges as like the global warming, using energy in a sustainable way and protecting the environment. We should find a good solution, for instance: use of solar energy, transparent heat insulation, passive buildings etc.. The development of the building technology in the field of building industry is a good way to eliminate the emission of green house gases, because we shall use less loam and the the industry will not need to transfer those materials.


LiTraCon provides a simple and cheap solution to the challenges. Filled with optical fibers that run from one end of a poured piece of concrete to the other, these prefabricated blocks and panels effectively transmit light from one side to the other.

 
Colors and light remain remarkably consistent from end to end, but with a natural variation from the pouring process that actually softens the effects considerably. The inventor himself, Mr. Áron Losonczi will explain in this 3 minutes video innovative ways of using the light transmitting concrete:



This Light transmitting Concrete is also very cheap and easy to make. Someone has homemade a small block and shared it on Youtube: 










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