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Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations
From none to sun
Summary
the project is a hot-box solar oven made of 2kg aluminum raw; the upper side made of glass with 2 holes for 2 convex lenses. On the edges of the box, there’re 4 reflectors made of wood covered with aluminum foil to reflect sunlight on the glass and convex lenses. The box will be covered with fiberglass for heat loss and wood for safety. The heat inside it ranges from 220oC to 260oC. There’re four TEGs used to transfer the heat to electricity. the four TEGs are connected to a converter which converts the amount of electricity from TEGs to a greater one. This project produces about 2000 watts with a cost of $82.
How We Addressed This Challenge
With the coming generations, the resources or resevoirs of petroleum will end up not containing the percentage of petroleum they can cope with; even as an only source of energy without participating in industry. On the other hand, the percentage of air, water, and soil pollution will increase lidding to world health issues, poverty, and starvation.
The world is now switching to the use of renewable sources of energy to prevent these issues because they are limitless and do not pollute the atmosphere.
As every human has the right to keep up with all the evolutions in the world and enjoy it. we came to a solution that makes up for all that struggles and gives every person the chance to live a decent life. the project simulates the function of solar panels but with very low cost in comparison with it, easy to implement and available to all classes of society, not only the poor one nor the fancy one.
the solar panels costs up to $2000 in order to achieve 1000 watt, in comparison with our project, the "from none to sun" project costs $82 and achieve 2000 watts.
the target of this project is to give the chance to the current generations to live a better life as 1 in ten people in developing countries does not have the luxury of electricity and give chance for coming generations to start their life with no struggles or challenges facing the whole world.
How We Developed This Project
After a lot of research, we came to the conclusion that one of the most important problems in the world is the lack of energy, which is an obstacle in the way of developing and developed countries, and their current solutions need huge costs that the developing countries will not be able to bear. That is why we came up with the best solution at the lowest possible cost, which is the solar oven, which works on Collecting the heat and storing it, then we pass it into a teg device that converts the difference in temperature into electricity, then we pass it on to a boost converter to be usable and after many modifications we arrived at a project that produces 2000 watts and costs eighty-two dollars.
The main challenge we faced is that all the results we had were based on theoretical analysis which was our first time to do that but we get over it after deep searching and hard work together.
The most achievement we are proud of is that our project outperformed solar panels with experts' testimony.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
One of the most important data that informed us and helped us to develop the project was climate data, as our project relies mainly on temperature, and the results we obtained were from a temperate climate, so studying the climate helped us a lot in anticipating how the device would work in countries with tropical weather and how it will increase its efficiency, while the countries with cold weather may affect it negatively, and we also benefited from an exciting explanation of the writing of the Purposal, and we learned how to write it on the correct scientific basis with the correct organization of it.
Also, through data on overpopulation and overpopulation, we were able to determine that the number of population in developing countries is more than in developed countries, as well as the number of energy sources in the developing countries more, but they are not used properly. Therefore, our project supports developing countries greatly due to its low costs and available materials
Project Demo
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TuVFCGqn3o0RcqbP1plGN6d2WyOy0n1T/view?usp=sharing
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