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The Caton Vi’qola Project was a gravity-flow water supply and distribution system for the rural village of Caton Vi’qola, in the Department of El Quiche, Guatemala and located about nine kilometers (5.5 miles) northeast of the city of Nebaj in the Cuchumantane Mountains of the Guatemalan Central Highlands.



There are 22 families living in the village with a total population of about 110 people. The system included a spring capture box, break pressure tanks, a 5 cubic meter…

I know that it's been a while, but this project just got me to thinking...

'This could be a way to show the world that Dade County is atleast trying to help'

Last year, Dade County Middle Schools students started working on Project Synergy. In Project Synergy, students have to make an object that will help one of the VW cars. They had a choice to do either Interior, Exterior, Green/Safety, Marketing/Advertising.

The winners went to the Chattanooga Convention Center for…

It's Halloween and everyone is either at a club, or there running around, dressed up and looking for candy. At the club, the people dancing are making energy, and so far, they've made enough energy to power the city of Atlanta for 3 days. It's amazing what inventing can do. The skies are now black, but you can see the stars a little more clearer than you could in 2010, thanks to the one of the inventions that takes the carbon dioxide from the skies, and converts it into energy. But for a…

I was wondering if you could use some of the energy that fires create and convert it into energy to power everyday things. But i don't know how you would make it.

We've gotten a creek nearby, and I'm trying to make a mini-version of the watermill to convert energy from the creek, to the house. I have a friend that is going to help me make the watermill, and he's also going to help with the energy box. I think that we can buy most of the stuff for it, but I'm wondering how we can convert it into energy.

Any ideas on how to…

We were doing our current events in computer class, and I happened to come across something about a Bloom Box. I clicked on the link, and lo and behold, someone has discovered how to convert energy into a box, which then transfers the energy to the users electronic devices. The inventor is K.R. Sridhar.

He invented a new kind of fuel cell, which is like a very skinny battery that always runs. Sridhar feeds oxygen to it on one side, and fuel on the other. The two combine within…

It's the year 2020, and Ms. Buffington was walking down the paved road to her friend's house, Ms. William, for some Korean food. As she walked down the road, she glanced at her surroundings. Surrounding her were hundreds of skyscrappers, and you could barely see the sky, due to all the smoke. It was hard living in the city, but it got you good money, money to pay for food, clothing and the home she lived in. You couldn't see the blue sky in the city anymore, not after Coltani took over all…

Our county doesn't have a food security problem, but it does have a food bank. Some of the people in our county are unable to work, or they choose not to work. We've had this system for awhile now, but we have to bring in canned foods in our schools to support the system we've made. To help, we see who tries to get the most cans in a homeroom and then we have a party. It helps somewhat, but we only get the canned foods and not the wh*** foods that they actually need.

In about 10 years, my life will be all study. I'll be living in a high tech dorm, studying the life of medicine. But if I were to be called to help some country, I'm willing to solve the problem

I'm not the smartest, but from what i understand, it's not trying to make a big deal out of doing something innovative. I think that one of my fav. secrets is to be productive. Use a bicycle to go somewhere close, change the ways you shop and use paper instead of plastic. I know it's not much, but we should at least try.