Roof orbs provide free lighting

How about, y’know, SOME WINDOWS!

whoa.
Those are the Orbs of Power from the ancient legends!
I need the ring to rule them all! O_O

Actually this pathetic clip didn’t really shed any light on the orbs.
They would actually provide very bright light, the orbs would have a lens which focuses and intensifies the sunlight and the light is then transfered by fibre optic cables in the pseudo lighting fixtures in the ceiling

This is an advanced form of age old sunlights, which are only useful is single storey houses or the top floor of multi stories and must be positioned precisely above the area you want to work and are conduits for heat to escape in winter.
With fibre optics like this you can put the exit point of the light anywhere at all without loss of light, just run the cable.
Even the darkest areas at the center of the house would be brightly lit.

These would compliment an array of solar panels and as you can see in the picture they sit only on the ridge of the house, not taking up too much valuable roof flanking space that would be occupied by solar panels.
My guess is they would be more efficient on low lighting conditions than solar panels.

Good idea, not exactly beautiful, but function over form in this case.

Actually, this is pretty old stuff, from more than a decade back. It’s called “HIMAWARI” or Sunflower. First exhibited at Expo ’85.

more here: http://www.himawari-net.co.jp/e_page-index01.html