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spotlight: Student ideas power MIT energy projects - get plugged in | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Student ideas and initiative are powering many of MIT's campus energy projects, from pedal-powered laptops to reducing MIT's environmental footprint. Have ideas on how to make a difference? Attend the MIT generator Thursday, Sept. 27, or submit a MITEI proposal by Monday, Oct. 1. |
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MIT Generator: students walking the talk on energy and the environment
Thursday, September 27, 6:30-9 PM Stata Center, Room 32-123 (Kirsch Auditorium) Are you passionate about energy, the environment, and issues of sustainability? Would you like to see MIT walk the talk on these issues? Want to help? Get plugged in! Come get involved in reducing the energy consumption and environmental impact of MIT's facilities, operations, and campus life. The idea is to be a Generator of student energy and action - this event is about rolling up our sleeves and getting to work. The Generator will include:
MITEI enlists student help to reduce MIT's environmental footprint The Campus Energy Task Force of the MIT Energy Initiative (aka "Walk the Talk") is calling for student proposals related to MIT's campus energy and environmental footprint. The deadline for fall proposals is October 1, 2007. Proposed projects should support the objectives of the Campus Energy Task Force including promoting campus sustainable energy and environmental practices and advancing the broad objectives of the MITEI to actively engage students in the initiative. For more information and details on how to apply, visit http://web.mit.edu/mitei/news/student-fund.html Pedal-powered laptop MIT students have come up with a way to recharge your laptop without plugging it in. Rather than consuming electricity, you'll be burning calories -- your own. The students designed and built an exercise bicycle that uses "pedaling power" to charge a laptop computer. As the bike's instructions note, if you have trouble "squeezing in that daily exercise," you can now "multitask with no problem -- [you can] bike while you work!" The pedal-powered laptop began as a class assignment for Course 1.102, "Introduction of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Design" (spring 2007), when students were instructed to design and build a device that converts mechanical power into electrical power. For more about the project, see the full story at http://web.mit.edu/mitei/campus/spotlights/pedal-laptop.html or view photos at the students' Flickr page. Talking 'bout a revolve-olution Dan Wesolowski looked out from the second floor of MIT's Building E25, watching in dismay as students and faculty alike ignored signs to use the revolving door below him and save energy. Person after person coming from the nearby Kendall Square subway walked through the swing door to the side of the revolving door. "A single person walking through a revolving door in February saves enough energy to light a 60-watt light bulb for 23 minutes," said Wesolowski, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in materials science and engineering. If everyone used the revolving doors, MIT would save about $7,500 in natural gas a year in E25 alone, which has two of the 29 revolving doors on campus. The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) is now supporting a student plan to encourage that behavior, and other student energy projects. Read more at:http://web.mit.edu/mitei/campus/spotlights/reduce-footprint.html. |
 MIT Generator: students walking the talk on energy and the environment
 MITEI enlists students to help reduce MIT's environmental footprint: deadline for fall proposals is October 1, 2007
 Recharge your laptop using your own energy: Julia Kiberd '08 pedals the specially adapted exercise bike |
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