Eco Factor: System to harness energy from everyday life.
Electricity sockets are often used to connect our chargers and appliances. How about a socket that instead of sucking electricity from the power grid, feeds electricity to the grid? The system is being conceptualized by Carla Diana and Jeff Hoefs. Dubbed the Inlet-Outlet, the system generates electricity from things that are used in an urban household on an everyday basis.
Closing of doors, waste heat from your oven, exercising or even jumping on the trampoline will all contribute to your personal energy statistics. All the energy can be sold to the grid or used in a house, thereby saving energy and money, which should finally get all those dollars you spend to install the system back in terms of energy savings.
The Dark Side:
The system shows a way how energy can be harnessed from things used in everyday life. However, the system seems too complicated, and if ever it is actually developed, it will cost much more than other conventional forms of renewable energy generating systems.
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