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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.
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Comment by Guy Gore on March 22, 2010 at 1:17am
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I want +10 hansomeness for this challenge ...
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Comment by Starling on March 21, 2010 at 3:44pm
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Cornelia, did you get a reply yet? I understood it to mean that the game organizers will add 10 points to your "Resourcefulness" power on your profile if you do the task described (I'm still waiting for a reply about exactly what it means before I can finish mine!) You know powers are what we can vote each other for contributing?
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Comment by Comelia Tang on March 21, 2010 at 7:21am
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What does it mean by "This objective is worth +10 resourcefulness.?
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Comment by E B on March 20, 2010 at 8:47pm
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Living without electricity. Experience (in pictures) from Uganda on how people iron, get light, cook without electricity.
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/the-life-without-electricity
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Comment by Pranab Baidya on March 20, 2010 at 3:11pm
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Comment by Mirthe on March 20, 2010 at 12:32pm
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I think you should be creative in this mission. I decided to eat more sustainable so there will be less power used in making and transporting my food. Because this is a huge indirect power use of people in the developed world. http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/power-myself-more-sustain...
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Comment by shei derek tarwep on March 20, 2010 at 12:31pm
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it is three days ago after seeing this topic i was in a construction site in an interior village in cameroon where there is no electricity.we are building some classrooms but the engineer made the plan to have only two windows same as schools in town that have lights. but i decided to use my innitiative to increase the windows to four and put transparent zincs that will permit light into these cla**** and theses students will have access to real lights.
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Clarifying - am I right in understanding you are asking us to invent a new way to power something, a new device?
So switching something I use every day to an alternative power source device that already exists, for example getting hold of a solar charger to use for my mobile phone, that *wouldn't* be what you mean?
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Comment by Marko Kolovrat on March 18, 2010 at 11:11pm
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Comment by ryan lee on March 18, 2010 at 10:04pm
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saving up in order to switch all my light bulbs to LED lighting....using the LR6. it uses only 12% of the energy of a regular recessed light bulb. it will last for about 15 years and provide better & brighter light! the drawback is the price....about $100 per bulb. now if everyone in the U.S. will switch to good quality LED lighting, the price will drop & we can all save money and the environment too!
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Comment by beatrisa on March 18, 2010 at 8:08pm
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something i use everynight is a light that i use to read that helps me to read and make my homeworks when my sister are slepping and im woke up....im saving a elrecity and using a light with batery
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We could turn off the lights in our classrooms and decide to use the sunlight from our windows to see.
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Comment by Evo on March 18, 2010 at 5:22pm
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We have SolBlossoms on our roof that power our coworking space and we monitor all energy use so that we know what to use and when depending on our energy production on site. Energy computers designed by Growing Energy Labs keeps us working with help from my handsome husband Brent at Toyshoppe Systems maintaining the engineering of our energy systems both in mobile event applications and back at home.
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Comment by Thairiny on March 18, 2010 at 5:10pm
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In my house we don't turn on every light only when we are in the room. On top of that we dont let the water keep running & we save the energy so that we dont put it to waste.
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I have stopped hot baths and use boiled water from the stove. I use less water and save on the electicity every morning, my electricity and water bills lower and I am saving the environment
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A mechanism attached to my bike dynamo in such a way that I charge the battery I am carrying while going to different places. The sad part of this invention is the unadjustable weight. Something like a portable inverter. An aluminium bike still sounds heavy. Oh ya and the planes having solar panels on them and so powerful that the wh*** power plane can be powered by it. But you have to have backup because what will you do on rainy days? A mechanism that allows PS3, Xbox, Wii owners to play as well as generate massive amount of electricity. I mean have you seen my friend Praneev play tennis, hes like brainwashed into play like a super human.
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This is just a proposal,for a gym cycle to power my computer. The basic idea involves a gym cycle,connected to a dynamo, that charges a car battery.The power is measures in hours of computer use gained from the exercise after cycling.
We want to stop people just sitting in front of screens,i believe this is a small idea to get two birds with one stone.
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I have stopped hot baths and use boiled water from the stove. I use less water and save on the electicity every morning, my electricity and water bills lower and I am saving the environment
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