Rahman H's Posts - Urgent Evoke2024-03-29T13:59:11ZRahman Hhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/RahmanHhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2209227527?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=298vdqztdtk67&xn_auth=noBill Gates: Innovating to Zerotag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-22:4871302:BlogPost:542122010-03-22T00:53:06.000ZRahman Hhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/RahmanH
I watched a very interesting presentation by Bill Gates on one of my favourite websites that bring innovative ideas from many people together. He mentioned some of the initiatives going on around the world to reduce the impact of producing energy, and went into some detail of what he was involved in personally.<br></br><br></br>One of the things that he's working on is creating nuclear power plants that would burn depleted uranium (which is the waste from nuclear power plants today). This will…
I watched a very interesting presentation by Bill Gates on one of my favourite websites that bring innovative ideas from many people together. He mentioned some of the initiatives going on around the world to reduce the impact of producing energy, and went into some detail of what he was involved in personally.<br/><br/>One of the things that he's working on is creating nuclear power plants that would burn depleted uranium (which is the waste from nuclear power plants today). This will eliminated more than 90% of the waste form nuclear power today, since they will use the waste of the process used today to power newer processes in the future.<br/><br/>I believe that this is one of the more realistic ways of creating long lasting power for the world over the next 200 years.<br/><br/>If anyone is interested in seeing the whole presentation this is the link: <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html">http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html</a><br/>Desk Lamps and Powertag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-22:4871302:BlogPost:541482010-03-22T00:13:54.000ZRahman Hhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/RahmanH
I was thinking about something I use every day as a student, my desk lamp, and how much of an impact that it has every year. In Canada there are about 1 million tertiary students, and if they study a mere hour a day during the school year that's about 11760 giga watts using 60 watt light bulbs for the year.<br></br><br></br>I thought it would be amazing to use something that doesn't depend on burning coal or produce too much waste, so I thought why not utilize something biological.<br></br><br></br>I know…
I was thinking about something I use every day as a student, my desk lamp, and how much of an impact that it has every year. In Canada there are about 1 million tertiary students, and if they study a mere hour a day during the school year that's about 11760 giga watts using 60 watt light bulbs for the year.<br/><br/>I thought it would be amazing to use something that doesn't depend on burning coal or produce too much waste, so I thought why not utilize something biological.<br/><br/>I know though that this idea isn't really feasible since it hasn't been developed, and I'm sure that there will be many challenges in developing a bioluminescent light source, and it's definitely not something that's supposed to replace all lighting since the amount of light that these bulbs could produce right now would be only bright enough to light a desk but not a room.<br/><br/>Basically its a glass sphere that has a mesh filling it to provide a framework for the bacteria to grow on. Nutrient broth or another nutrient source is fed through the top every day and feeds the entire bulb with a small tubing system, the bottom allows the few excess drops to come out.<br/><br/>Different solutions could be used, a first one to inoculate the bulb with the bioluminescent bacteria, solutions to feed the bacteria and solutions to clean out the whole system; killing all the bacteria and resetting the bulb.<br/>Learning about social innovationtag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-21:4871302:BlogPost:532672010-03-21T18:09:48.000ZRahman Hhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/RahmanH
<span><strong>Do the hard work needed to find a simple solution.</strong><br />
As Leonardo da Vinci said, “Simplicity is the ultimate<br />
sophistication”—and it is the key to this type of design work.<br></br><br></br>Out of all the tips that were presented, this one stood out to me the most. It links back to many of the other tips. If something is simple, it should be easier to make, more people could adopt it, more people would WANT to adopt it.<br></br><br></br>And the flip-side to that is also given in that…</span>
<span><strong>Do the hard work needed to find a simple solution.</strong><br />
As Leonardo da Vinci said, “Simplicity is the ultimate<br />
sophistication”—and it is the key to this type of design work.<br/><br/>Out of all the tips that were presented, this one stood out to me the most. It links back to many of the other tips. If something is simple, it should be easier to make, more people could adopt it, more people would WANT to adopt it.<br/><br/>And the flip-side to that is also given in that statement; to create something truly useful and simple really requires something more than a passing effort. It takes intuition, knowledge and effort to do do that.<br/><br/>And if we can somehow increase what people can get out of simple tools in their everyday lives, we can truly make a difference in their world.<br/></span>