A new alternative to solar panels that heats and lights your home completely free.

Natural light in your home or business is very important for saving energy or even heating costs. However, due to location, many rooms in your home or office may lack natural light. Solution to this problem use a heliostat system; a device that includes a mirror that reflects light to areas where there is no light. However, this invention goes even further and even allows you to heat your home for free.

Called Lumona, and was created by Polish industrial designer Mariusz Smetana. The invention was even nominated for the international James Dyson Award.

It consists of a heliostat, which is installed on the roof of the house and is able to bring natural light to the most remote corners of the house. However, unlike devices that project sunlight, Lumona includes a system that can – in a sense – store the sun’s rays so thatfurther distributing them to the necessary premises through a fiber optic system.

For this purpose, the device has 16 Fresnel lenses, which are used to capture or expand light, as well as aluminum collimators for greater precision in capturing it. Finally, they are placed on a polycarbonate base and milled aluminum as a thermal shield. The inventor essentially states that “milled aluminum was chosen which, when properly processed, has optical properties and becomes a natural heat sink, minimizing the risk of optical fiber melting.”

Lumona can heat your home for free and in the future even distill water

The fiber optic system, in turn, allows you to distribute natural light into rooms where there is none. This not only creates a warmer environment. This also saves on heating costs as the light can warm the environment; and also save energy, since there is no need to use artificial lighting. Lumona may also be beneficial for plants that require sunlight to thrive.

Now Smitana is focused on perfecting his invention, which is already saving a lot of money every year by distributing sunlight and heating the house for free, since it is completely free to use. “I plan to focus on simplifying the system to make it more economically accessible to less developed countries,” the inventor said. Smitana also emphasizes that he is developing new developments, “such as the production of lenses and optical fiber from PET bottles, which will help reduce production costs by making necessary components easier to access.”

Finally, the inventor hopes to give Lumone another use – to use the accumulated sunlight for needs. other purposes such as water distillation or heating of crops..