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Power Shift - Act

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Design a new way to power something you use everyday.

Take a look around you. Something YOU use or do every day could be powered differently.

Your challenge this week is to DESIGN A NEW WAY TO POWER something you use everyday. Maybe it's your mobile phone. Maybe it's the light you use to read at night.

Your solution should be cheaper, or more sustainable, than your current power source.

It's an ambitious challenge -- but you're an EVOKE agent. You know that even if you fail, you can learn from your efforts... and maybe even inspire someone along the way.


Your objective: Design a new way to power something you use every day.

Share your design in a blog post, video or image. For legendary honors, make your idea real -- and show us in photo or video your brand new power source in action!


This objective is worth +10 resourcefulness.

Get credit for your evidence! After you submit your evidence in a blog post, photo or video, go to the newly posted evidence page and log your evidence for this objective. Then you'll receive credit on your profile page!

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Comment by Eric Koziol on March 29, 2010 at 2:25am
I'd like some help on hammering out this idea as well as what people think in terms of feasibility: http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/electricity-from-the-moti...
Comment by Shakwei Mbindyo on March 27, 2010 at 3:46pm
I have finally found something for this mission's objective - flushing the heater every six months. What this does is circulate the water in the bottom of the heater where most of the particulates in the water settle. If those particulates settle on the heating element, which is also at the bottom, then you are heating water and whatever settled onto the heating coils. I have easy-to-follow instruction on how to do this on my flush the heater post
Comment by Carl Coffill on March 27, 2010 at 3:30pm
I would like to get a solar panel for my roof. This would be expensive at first, but after a while I would save money on my investment because it would near eliminate my electric bill. This would significantly lower my dependence on electricity from the electric company, which is unsustainable.
Comment by Karolina Jotanovic on March 24, 2010 at 7:48pm
As I live in country where is a lot of sunny days we should put solar cells on the tops of buildings which would provide enough energy for household.
Comment by Mokey on March 24, 2010 at 4:50pm
This isn't the kind of thing I know very much about (electricity, generating power, etc.), so I'm at a bit of a loss about where to start. Anyone who'd like to guide me in brainstorming or creating something is welcome! :)
Comment by Jassiel on March 24, 2010 at 6:06am
To Ricardo p, Philip, Perez, and Jonathan. Could guys send me messages so I can help with your ideas. I think I know where you guys are heading and I would love to see if we could collaborate. Also, anyone else trying to find way to convert kinetic energy/ solar energy into our mobile device, add me I have great ideas and need someone to bounce them off of ;).
Comment by Ricardo P on March 24, 2010 at 5:01am
Since the wh*** point of having a laptop is that you take it with you everywhere why not have a device that charges it kinetically? Or any other portable device for that matter.
Comment by Rovan Cipriano on March 23, 2010 at 7:05pm
iam thinking of something that has never been discovered before an energy witch will not be harmful to our nature and environment...
Comment by perez s on March 23, 2010 at 6:08pm
i think that the new technology called small power can be used to solve this problem
Comment by Philip Poltorak on March 23, 2010 at 6:07pm
i agree that we can collec power with solar panels
Comment by perez s on March 23, 2010 at 6:06pm
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Comment by perez s on March 23, 2010 at 6:01pm
I agree that we could use solar panels to collect power
Comment by Jonathan on March 23, 2010 at 1:31pm
We could use Solar powered buildings by having a solar-panel on the roof able to collect enough power for a wh*** buildings
Comment by Jonathan on March 23, 2010 at 1:26pm
We could use Solar powered buildings by having a solar-panel on the roof able to collect enough power for a wh*** buildings
Comment by Anthony Karanja on March 23, 2010 at 10:39am
Solar Powered Phones and Laptops?!!
Comment by Khayalethu Kuphu on March 23, 2010 at 10:12am
I thought of a computer keyboard that can generate energy when typing . . . the energy can be used to power the PC or laptop.
Comment by Grateful Frog on March 22, 2010 at 9:17pm
Some rowing machines are connected to fans so that you get some cooling breeze while you row...
Comment by Holden Sparacino on March 22, 2010 at 9:05pm
I would hook up gym equipment to generators. Bikes, treadmills, along with non-free weights could produce a lot of energy, especially if the system was integrated into many gyms
Comment by Grateful Frog on March 22, 2010 at 7:13pm
I would use musician's foot tapping to generate power for their electronic equipment. For example, nearly all guitar players, like myself, tap their feet. If they were to tap their feet on a specially designed pad, a considerable amount of electricity could be generated. This might be enough to power some of their equipment. Just like pedalling a bike generates electricity for the lights.
Comment by Nick Gogerty on March 22, 2010 at 4:53pm
I would redesign, home based routers with a default open or sharing option that would all for "simple" management. This would reduce in more sharing and less base station redundancy in urban areas.

The average router pulls down. 9.6 watts. 24/7. small but reducing this by 30% would be nice. http://www.wirelessforums.org/wireless-networking-discussion/wirele...

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