- Local man creates revolutionary non electrical light source- Already in talks to fund project
- “The greatest advancement in lighting technology.”
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A “eureka” moment eight months ago could see 50 to 150 well-paid, high technology jobs created in the Mudgee region.
However, John Adams’ invention – of non-electrical emergency lighting using aluminium crystals – is literally poised to change the world.
Mr Adams is already talking to people at the World Bank about funding the large scale distribution throughout the third world, where it could be used for domestic lighting. And then, there’s climate change. Mr Adams said the panels can take heat out of the atmosphere and convert it to light with no additional CO2 being created, while decreasing the local temperature a small amount.
Mr Adams, of Advance Luminescent Technologies, brought samples of his “The Foreverlight Panel” to last Wednesday’s
Mid-Western Regional
Council meeting. He called upon staff to kill the lights and his blue-green panels lit up the council chambers.
A man who wishes to remain out of the limelight, Mr Adams acknowledges he is on to “the greatest advancement in lighting technology since we first used fire to light the night.”
The story of the Foreverlight
John Adams and his family moved to Mudgee, from Sydney, five years ago. An electronic engineer, he was the co-owner of a $100 million business but had his partner buy him out.
“I wanted to have a life and watch my daughter grow up,” he said in an interview with the Guardian.
He started a business that provides microwave datalink products for local government councils. Lately, due to the world financial crisis, the business dried up. So, he decided to work on The Foreverlight Panel technology.
He needed a clear conductive plastic. A team at the University of Newcastle was trying to invent a similar thing on a $2.5 million budget, according to Mr Adams, but he beat them to the punch.
There was a lot of trial and error, sleepless nights bordering on hallucination, not to mention alienating his loving family until he finally made a breakthrough in a petrie dish.
“It lit up the entire room,” he said.
“I cracked it early. It shocked me that I cracked it so quickly. But I knew I was really onto something.”
He describes that “eureka” day as “fantastic. I was on cloud nine and stunned.”
Since then he has been modifying and improving the product.
“I don’t seek fame or anything like that but I have to get the word out because the technology has the capability of changing the way we view how our future will be. Technology can help but we need to stop looking to the past.
“I’m in for a difficult time. This is going to bring more inconvenience than I know what to do with. I’ve a very private person. I don’t mix with people or go down to the pub. All I want to make sure is that this gets out.”
Mr Adams said he is the child of parents who worked in a supermarket, and who toiled his “ass” off to get to TAFE because his family was not wealthy.
“I ate four days a week and the other three scrounged off people.”
As for The Foreverlight Panel, “I’ve worked really hard on this and it only came into existence because I had time to think.”
The Foreverlight Panel: some of the features
• It provides light forever, it will never go out.
• It is non-radioactive.
• No electricity.
• No solar panels.
• No sun exposure is required.
• It is more than 100,000 times more energy efficient than the best LED lighting technology.
• All it needs is heat over 6C (it will work at -20C but not as brightly).
• Creates no magnetic, electrical or Rf fields.
• Non-polluting during its 70 to 10,000 years operational life although the plastic will eventually fail, but the X03 lighting technology will quickly break down in the environment.
• The light output is useable even after three months in total darkness, with no light exposure, only normal room ambient heat to excite it.
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