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How could people become their own renewable source of energy?
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Energy on Wheels
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| A power generating shopping cart for homeless people. |
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| Tim Pion, Kim Vanderhoven, Johan Van Stichel |
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Is it possible to create a social-energy network for the homeless? |
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We were looking for a way to help the homeless people and try to create an environment for them where they could gain energy out of their daily activities. It should be a system that would give these people the chance to rehabilitate in society.
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The system has a chance to work if many homeless people are willing to cooperate in building a human energy network. They would store energy during the day so that they are able to prepare some food at night or power a little heating machine. Instead of using money they use energy to trade between themselves or buy some food from each other. |
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| Prototype |
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Especially in the United States, homeless people keep shopping carts to store and transport their belongings. For our prototype, we augmented such a cart with dynamos: now pushing the cart will generate enough energy to power a light, a radio or a little fan. Storing this energy and connecting carts could help heating the stove below to prepare some food.
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