A nice bit of winter sunshine anyone?

There's a town in Norway that gets no sunshine at all for 7 months of the year. Until now.

This is my idea. I thought of it for my back garden as far back as summer 2013, when I started dabbling with some experimental suncatchers (we'll gloss over the fact that the Norwegians thought of it 100 years ago, and plenty of others probably had similar ideas much earlier).

Still, its genius.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24747720

 

What we could really do with is some panels that absorb the sun light then reflect back to us when we need it.
But then I'm sure we would have sunshine tax