Hosted by OSOS , contributed by gretabg on 22 February 2020
The Shopping Energy project solves a global environmental problem. The modern technological world needs more and more energy, and its production by burning fuels pollutes the environment.
The target of the Shopping energy project is to develop an alternative and affordable way to produce clean energy by constructing a shopping cart that generates electricity from mechanical movement.
The Shopping energy project strikes a balance in the principles of sustainable development environmentally, socially and economically.
Feel
We believe that we are living in years where we constantly must look for alternative ways to produce energy, because that is how each one of us can contribute to protecting and saving our planet!
The idea of the Shopping Energy project came to us by accident. One day while Antoniya was in the supermarket, she had to make an emergency call, but her phone had no battery, and she thought, "How can I charge my phone?".
The next day, as we were cycling, Rumiyana noticed that the bicycle headlight was on when the wheel was spinning. So, this can also happen with the shopping cart!?
Then we came up with a way to create energy while shopping.
Imagine
The Shopping Energy project turns shopping carts into moving, clean, green power plants, offers economic benefits for shops and convenience for the customer, replaces coal burning and decreases the released harmful gases into the atmosphere.
Create
How the Shopping Energy project works? An oscillator is mounted on the axle of one of the wheels of the trolley, which converts the mechanical energy from the rotation of the wheel into electric. This energy is transferred by a cable and stored into a rechargeable battery attached to the handle of the trolley. The battery has input and output and so the energy stored in it can be used to charge a mobile phone by a customer while shopping.
After shopping, each cart is parked in front of the store and connected to the Power Hub. The stored energy is transferred to a larger rechargeable battery located in the station. The energy from the shopping carts of all the customers in the store is enough to power the parking lights, to drive the doors of the store and so on.