If you are into green gadgets and eco-friendly innovations, then these are good times for you—and it seems that the years ahead are only going to get better as the word about the benefits of living an environmentally friendly lifestyle spread across the globe. Max Robson is a young innovator who has chosen to follow the footsteps of his father, Ashley, 51, who studied mechanical engineering at the University of Portsmouth. In fact, he has beaten his father to the task of building a wind turbine out of scrap!
Max Robson, 22, constructed a prototype using rubbish collected from skips, tips and bins, including an old bike frame and wheel bearings, the magneto from a Vespa, a battery from a Ford Fiesta and bits of wood. It is so simple, he says, it can be built by unskilled workers in less than a day anywhere in the world. His turbine works by converting the energy in wind into electrical energy stored in a battery. It produces an output of 11.3 watts, which is enough electricity to run lighting for 63 hours or a radio for 30 hours.
We must look at the possibility of actually using such wind turbines, as they are much smaller than the giant posts of the past and can even be a part of city life as well. The fact that it was made out of scrap and trash only makes it better, and while Robson and those around him call it a gadget made for developing nations, I suggest that even the developed ones could take to it, as it both reduces trash and produces energy. Max Robson is only 22, and that means we hopefully will see a lot more green gadgets coming from him in the many years to follow.
Via: Dailymail
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This is super sweet but until something like this becomes available to me, and a couple million of my comrades( a poor person who can only use coal powered electricity) I can’t reduce my carbon footprint by any great degree. Yes, there are poor people in the US. Currently the only wind turbine available in my neighborhood in $10,000. Yes, I know it’s just dollars...I try to reduce, reuse and recycle but simply cannot afford the solar and wind options that are marketed in the US. Maybe you can help the whole planet out by making the US less dependent on fossil fuels. Apparently it’s our carbon output that’s ruining the rest of the planet anyhow so that would suggest that it’s not exclusively the third world countries that really need this technology. Maybe the third world countries need the US to get there sooner. We are poor. We don’t like paying the electric bill. We’d love to find a way around it and to save the planet at the same time.