The video with the most votes will win the People’s Choice Award and $2,500. Winners will be given $15,000 grant money and $100,000 to implement the idea at the school.
College and university students from across the country submitted videos telling us how they would tackle their campus’ biggest sustainability issues. Now it’s your turn to tell us your favourite. Cast your vote for the $2,500 People’s Choice Award!
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Very good job guys and a great idea! Definitely something to support!
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Great Idea guys, keep up the good job. I just have a question here since you guys brought up the entire concept of energy saving, about the cost evaluation? Let’s per say if you don’t WIN this competition and still have a dream to capture to open your own company, how do you tend to get the resources in bulk with lower prices? Again, lot of things come in place, types of solar panels, if maximum efficiency required where would you place your panels, again these panels have maximum of only 20% of maximum efficiency on any given sunny daylight day, so you mentioned on your video you will place on top of the roof, but again depending upon the architecture of the house, you might want to place it somewhere where you can get that maximum efficiency, plus places where there is less wind, I don’t see the point of installing a wind turbine at all. Besides wind turbine tends to be much more costlier and less warranty given compare to solar panels these days. I assume the panels price have gone below 1$ a watt now, which is apparently not so bad, but again those products come merely from China, with no good representation of the company.
How would you secure your AC/DC outlet? You require a minimum human interference from that unit to the connectivity going all the way to the roof.
Also, how many panels would you be required to install for any given normal houses in urban and rural areas. Since you mentioned that some of these technologies are used in rural area’s of Pakistan by the support of Aga Khan organization, why don’t we start implementing such in our own JK’s? Worth a thought right? I debated this concept almost 3 to 4 years back, when the price of panels were quite high. But today I bring this option back on plate as of why don’t we start applying in our own JK’s with proper implementation and mathematics calculation.
I give you a very basic scenario of Atlanta JK’s electricity unit bill for inside JK meter is approximately between $2500 to $3000, where maximum usage of electricity can be noticed used between 6pm to 11:30pm and 3:30am to 6:30am. Just on regular basis, you can see how much electricity is being consumed on monthly basis. Now, my question to you is, how would you tend to store the energy between 6:30am to 5:30pm? Might use some sort of storage right? Fine lets say you invested 25k on buying such batteries lasting 20 years plus, to hold the capacity of some watts for few hours, again, I don’t have the exact figures right now but I have concluded in my report how much by approximation it will take to hold the entire charges to potentially output during evening JK period effectively. The number seamed quite huge.. :)
So to conclude the price range I notice we have:
1) Prices for the panels (which vary from house to house, again matters how much electricity required in most cases)
2) AC/DC converter
3) Battery storage if you are very keen about storing electricity for night time.. :) I see the solution you brought for wind turbine, but seriously, wind turbine’s effect can go from a highly maximum productivity to very minimal depending upon the area you live. Again, Chicago will be one of the best choice as its known for wind city.. :)
4) Maintenance cost. On days of snow fall, rain, someone needs to clean those panels right? :)
5) Installation cost which should be conducted by a Professional Engineer (PE), or licensed installer. (again in many states this is not a law, but in practical business, security of life comes number 1 priority in any aspect)
6) Damages (this is something many people just neglect thinking it may not occur, but as a rule of thumb, anything can go wrong)
The list goes on, but these are some very prime reasoning to think about. I know you would have gone through some of these features, if not then can highlight few features of your interest.
I am in a phase of completing my formal report of utilizing natural energy for Jamati purposes, however when I started this report it was back couple of years back, and after my calculation and out I simply stopped it for various reasons, the main reason was as simple as Moula’s vision on such technology is as simple as planting a tree. Again, it will be really odd seeing those figures much higher than the jamat khana facility itself.. lol But as couple of years have passed, I have acknowledged a little price drop here and there, but again its a good concept of knowing things how they tend to work TOGETHER.. :)
Keep up the good job and work hard and moula bring your vision to success.. Ameen.
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