engineers
have the task of supplying the world with electricity to power the ever growing
digital revolution. There are many ways to
do things by harnessing energy from sunlight, wind and tidal which creates
electricity in medium quantities. Engineers are putting their efforts into
renovating these ideas to harness as much power as possible to come up against
the likes of coal and oil. A new approach to this would be if engineers were to put more prominence in
creating electrical power in smaller quantities i.e generate power for individual
items such as street lights to combat them from drawing electricity from the
national grids supply. Could this solution be the way of the future thus
reducing the need of non renewable plants?
There
are many types of energy forms that can be converted into electricity that have
not yet been investigated into fully, S,Hawking (1991, PP.155) states that “one such black hole could run ten
large power stations, if only we could harness its power” This proves
that there are many ways to produce electrical power still to date that we as ‘engineers’
are able to investigate into.
The
University of Derby Electrical Electronic Engineering Degree contains a module
“Independent Engineering Project” for which I Daniel Floyd proposes the
following title and aims for my project.
‘Design and Build of a Micro
Generation Exercise Matt to Charge a Portable Device, Analysing the use of
Piezo Electricity’
o
Innovate and Build of a micro generation
exercise matt to charge a portable device.
o
Gain experience and knowledge in
mechatronics & micro generation.
o Analysis
of Piezo electronics and how this technology can be used and designed into
various scenarios.
Check back at a later date to fine out more about this project
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