Topic: health - on February 14, 2007 at 3:19:00 PM CET
A giant moonbeam reflector may shine away depression
In Arizona’s Sonoran Desert,15 miles west of Tucson, the depressed and ailing come to bathe in the gentle blue-white beam of Richard Chapin’s 50-foot-tall moonlight collector.
Chapin, the founder of a lucrative Arizona swap meet, has spent the past four years and $2 million of his personal fortune building the world’s first and only therapeutic moonbeam catcher, a 30-ton array of mirrors called the Interstellar Light Collector. Although he has no medical training, Chapin is convinced that his invention can help people conquer depression, arthritis and even some types of cancer.
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