Brainstorm
- Old vending machine filled with the pet food
- This vending machine would be fun for your children. Because nowadays this machines are disappearing and it would bring your childhood memory back.
- Solar panel paper airplane
- I think the paper airplane doesn’t fly enough for children to actually have a fun. By using solar panel, it would sustain flying as long as the solar panel covers it.
- Magnetic Energy Generator
- http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/studies/hard-facts-energy-primer/
- Affordable, reliable energy is essential to the economy because energy powers everything that makes life possible.
- http://www.economist.com/node/16909923
- Around 1.5 billion people, or more than a fifth of the world’s population, have no electricity and a billion more have only a small amount of unreliable electricity.
- This generator will allow lights in homes to be powered endlessly until the magnets go bad or the motor goes bad.
- The generator also doesn’t require any other resource other than itself to be powered, so it doesn’t need sunlight, or water, or uranium, or electricity.
- Wireless power
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidferris/2012/07/24/how-wireless-charging-will-make-life-simpler-and-greener/#64c49b0e3c35
- Wireless power could reduce demand for power cables while making gadgets more durable and it could eliminate the need for throwaway batteries.
- It fixes the frayed power cord problem by eliminating the power cord.
- untangled earbuds
- each time you want to use your earbuds the main problem is getting them untangled. (Everyone has this problem)
- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-do-your-earphones-get-tangled-in-your-pocket-science-has-the-answer-9548540.html
- Kinetic energy using human movements
- Us as humans tend to create a lot of movement and we could find a way to use that create energy for us to use
- https://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2009-01/harvesting-energy-humans
- http://thefutureofthings.com/3297-power-through-movement-technology/
Decision Matrix
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Research
1. Alternative solutions is a huge problem in the world, it is worth solving for cheaper and reusable energy.
2. This problem is worth solving because it would help a lot of people have energy at a cheaper price and it’ll help the environment, reducing pollution, and dangers with alternative solutions that have been used such as nuclear energy.
3. The solution for this problem will definitely be marketable considering it's a worldwide problem.
The marketplace is considerable due that it can solve many problems in the world. In 2013 and average monthly electrical bill that residents had was on average from 80 dollars to over 125 dollars.
Our competition would be other alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal.
In general customers would be more interested in looking for a cheaper, efficient, and low maintenance energy source
2. This problem is worth solving because it would help a lot of people have energy at a cheaper price and it’ll help the environment, reducing pollution, and dangers with alternative solutions that have been used such as nuclear energy.
3. The solution for this problem will definitely be marketable considering it's a worldwide problem.
The marketplace is considerable due that it can solve many problems in the world. In 2013 and average monthly electrical bill that residents had was on average from 80 dollars to over 125 dollars.
Our competition would be other alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal.
In general customers would be more interested in looking for a cheaper, efficient, and low maintenance energy source
Survey
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNnQGNEbQn6gi6aqP-AWBErErU6iTO-X6fa6rtaMaOdzEQfQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
Problem Statement
Consumers with an electrical bill cost ranging from $50 to above $200 dollars would like an energy source that can reduce the cost of their electrical bill to less than $100, preferably $0. Out of the 201 responses, 37.8% chose solar as their most ideal source of energy, due to it being very efficient and environmentally friendly, making it the most popular choice in the survey for already created renewable energy sources. 53.25 of the responses stated that they would like to try a new source of renewable energy. Some ideas on new possible sources of renewable energy that were given in the survey are to create thorium reactors, use an atom smasher, fusion, attaching generators to little children, attaching solar panels to birds, or just steal electricity from other countries, all of which are highly probable.
Summary
At the start of Part A of the EDD Capstone Project, we took only 2 days to find our problems because we thought of the problems before the project technically started. That gave us the extra time to evaluate the problems in a decision matrix and a problem statement matrix. This took most of our time to do because it decides what we are going to research and build for the next 3 months. We created in a research in depth to know more about the problem we are planning to solve and we justified our problem looking for sources that help us prove our problem needs to be solved. We conducted a survey that also helps justify our problem, and helped us see how big our problem was and the importance of having it solved.
Citation
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Gray, R. (2017, March 13). The biggest energy challenges facing humanity. Retrieved October 25, 2017, from http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170313-the-biggest-energy-challenges-facing-humanity
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Gray, R. (2017, March 13). The biggest energy challenges facing humanity. Retrieved October 25, 2017, from http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170313-the-biggest-energy-challenges-facing-humanity