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Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations

There is concern worldwide that environmental issues we face today will have an impact on future generations. Your challenge is to create a way to communicate the importance of environmental responsibility to people of all ages.

Integrated Solar Panel Based Roadways for NextGen using space data

Summary

Definitely future generations need clean air, water and organic food which are basic necessities and need to be sustained.For this what we propose is to have Solar based roadways which will help in1. Reduce emission of greenhouse gases2. Rain harvesting beside these roads to supply cleaner water3. Organic food cultivation beside the roads4. To get cleaner energy for all houses and electric vehicles5. Better management of roads and traffic using satellites

How We Addressed This Challenge

We have developed high level ideas for sustaining our planet for next generations.

It is important to have basic necessities in life like air, water, food for each and everyone on this planet as there are many challenges to get these basic needs to each and every living beings in the space (including our planet!).

This solution proposed will help individuals to get the basic needs of life in sustainable ways.


To start with, we get the data on the greenhouse CO2 on various locations on earth using satellite data. Based on this index, we take up those roads to start with which have higher emissions. Based on the infrastructure and priority, majority of the roads to be covered by individual countries in a phased manner.

Once we take these actions benefits are multi-fold for the communities.



  • Due to solar energy, emission of greenhouse gases will be reduced which creates clean air.
  • We can also have rain water harvesting beside the solar roadways so that the cleaner water can be provided to the communities via water tanks.
  • Also we can have organic food cultivation and medicinal plantation beside the roads to help communities get good food and build immunity
  • We can also build electric charging stations at regular distances to charge electric vehicles to foster cleaner energy. In addition, this will be used to supply energy to the households too to help communities.
  • The traffic signals can be better managed with this without too many wires. Also, important messages can be easily passed on to the dwellers. Road crimes can be monitored with satellite data as well as over-speedy drivers.
  • Overall, this also help in industrial revolutions to the next level providing decent jobs to many


All these can be linked with satellite data for better measurement, analysis and monitoring perspective.

How We Developed This Project

The planet is facing lot of issues and challenges at hand including getting basic needs in life. In addition to this, Covid-19 situation added more issues and threats to the mankind including future generations. The challenges and issues faced around led to this inspiration of ideating and proposing solutions for the next generations which are sustainable.

We have not used any specific tools, hardware, software etc as such.

The challenge is we came to know about this event just 2 days ago so we are not able to create simulation, POC etc but we have talked to communities, friends and colleagues to provide this solution.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

Referred Data.gov for energy, climate and agriculture topics in addition to Covid-19 topics.

Data & Resources

Referred Data.gov for energy, climate and agriculture topics in addition to Covid-19 topics.


Also referred the below URLs for some data in the presentation.

https://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/food/index.html

www.worldwater.io/water-scarcity/data_by_country

https://ourworldindata.org/

https://greenerideal.com/

Tags
#solar roadways,#Clean energy, #Clean water, #Food security, #Traffic management, #Industrial revolution,#electric charging stations, #immunity,
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.