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0 pointsbd10y ago0 comments

Lot of things scatter. There is probably something cheaper than $35,000 per light.

Maybe milk could be used? :)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wyj6iHUndhg/UXpUk6HxfLI/AAAAAAAACu...

http://thestandardmodel.blogspot.com/2013/04/when-i-was-chil...

It feels like they charge so much not because there would be some principal engineering / technical obstacle but simply because they can. They have been the first who realized something like this can be done (now that LED lighting progressed so far) and for rich customers this is a feature that's highly desirable, so they are willing to pay so much.

They do have a good marketing. Their business model depends on others thinking there is some special magic.

I had to see that reddit post to even start questioning that something like this could be replicated.

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derefr10y ago

They might charge as much as they do because they're making their special-sauce material in a really non-cost-effective small-batch way. If that's true, then if they just released their material process patent into the public domain, probably the windows would still cost $35k for a while, and then gradually decline, step-wise, as competitors created bigger and better processes to do the same thing.

madaxe_again10y ago

Maybe milk could be used?

Worst smelling light ever. You could even say that that idea stinks!

OTOH a colloidal solution of silver could potentially do the job.

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