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Who else is inventing creative, sustainable ways to power our everyday lives?
Meet Jessica, a real power player: she invented a soccer ball that generates electricity when you kick it. Play a quick game of soccer with your friends, and you can power your household light for an entire evening.
Jessica tested her idea in South Africa and Kenya. Now she has her own company called sOccket to help her spread her big idea all over the world. And she's not the only young social innovator changing where and how we can get power.
Meet Hugo, born and raised in South Africa. He makes technology that allows anyone, anywhere to make electricity from dirt in their own backyard. To share his solution, Hugo started a company called Lebone -- pronounced [La - bo - ney] -- it's the Northern Sotho word for light, lamp, or candle.
Your LEARN mission this week is to figure out: Who else is inventing creative, sustainable ways to power our everyday lives? Find someone working on a creative electricity project, or a sustainable energy project -- and tell the network about their big idea.
Find the power players:
Try searching "social entrepreneur" and "electricity", OR "social innovation" and "energy", OR "sustainable energy" and "creative solution". Whose great idea can YOU discover?Your objective:
Find a POWER PLAYER: someone who is working on an amazing electricity or sustainable energy project. Share your discovery with the network in a blog post, photo or video.This objective is worth +3 knowledge share.
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Comment by Rhona Polonsky on March 29, 2010 at 10:24pm
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I have seen the merry go round playground equipment and think it is a great idea for schools. As a teacher, I think kids would love to be conducting their own energy. They sure have enough of it to burn!
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Comment by coxcrow on March 29, 2010 at 2:47pm
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Here's info on using playground equipment for electricity generation.
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/learn3-20#logApp
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Comment by Aisling O'Donovan on March 29, 2010 at 12:00pm
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Comment by Gabriela Guzmán on March 29, 2010 at 2:19am
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Check out this website: http://www.actioncarbone.org you can obtain info in English and French
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Comment by Kurt Vu on March 28, 2010 at 7:02am
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=powering-a-green-p...
In this slide show article listed in the Scientific American website, people are coming together to discuss the possibilities and pros and cons of certain ways to completely power the green planet of Earth, well, greenly with what nature is already giving us; by 2030.
The comments sections holds great ideas too!
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/305/5686/972
This article talks about how we could use Hydrogen as a sustainable way to create electricity. I believe this really could work as a large scale solution to producing electricity, while not taxing the environment.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/305/5686/972
This article talks about how we could use Hydrogen as a sustainable way to create electricity. I believe this really could work as a large scale solution to producing electricity, while not taxing the environment.
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Comment by Calla Kennedy on March 26, 2010 at 2:30pm
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It's really interesting thinking about all the different ways people can harness energy.
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Comment by David Preston on March 25, 2010 at 8:00am
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Its a comedic answerer but there’s an idea in it
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8484844342034608484&hl=en
13:50 - 14:12
Large scale grid solutions I feel revolve around Nuclear fuel, efficient recycling and re-processing and, ofcourse, the massive PR job it needs to convince the green freturntaty http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2009/testimony090617.html
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Comment by Felipe Daniel Herrmann on March 24, 2010 at 11:33pm
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Here is a link I found, it's in portuguese, but you'll get the Idea.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13841522/COMO-LIXO-GERA-ENERGIA
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Did some research and found couple of alternatives. First is turning metano into energy, from garbage. Garbage releases its gases during decomposition, these gases are colected (wich some are exlosive, methane, especially) and suffer controlled combustion in power plants. (That can be made in Dumps, for example.) Second, kinda the same, is making good use of excrement. Well, it also releases gases such as methan, even more than garbage itself. Think 'bout big pig farms, "energy" is colected anyway, but is simply trown away.
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We should find alternative fuel. Also, we should use waste for fuel production and energy. Furthermore use the sun as an energy source for households.
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we should find a way to make a video game that creates electricity instead of draining it
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Comment by Jonathan Garica on March 24, 2010 at 5:33am
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Bill Gates is developing a way to use radioactive waste to generate power. Meaning, we will be able to build nuclear power plants, and use the waste (plutonium) to power another type of power plant. And if you were wondering, the waste fueled plant doesn't produce any waste.
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Hugo is doing a good job helping poor countries including young poor kids that have nothing to eat or have no shelter. He has his own organization that helps all of the third world countries. His most objective is to make young kids happy all of the time in a safe place to be and live.
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We should power the planet with rap music
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Comment by Emile H Jansen on March 23, 2010 at 4:33pm
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Overunity would have to be the tip top of solving electricity problems. If only we can get it to work in a big enough scale.
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