The Obvious is not the right answer for future Challenges!

Energy is closely associated to security, we might not genuinely accept or remain unaware of this fact, but it does. Do we ever realize, every bit of food that we waste is exactly the amount of energy that could feed and make destitute population healthier or at least feed them.

Apparently, there are a few people and organization on this Globe, which surfaced with an idea to create energy from waste food and everything that we label as a “waste”, in one way or the other.

A company named Harvest Power devised a similar idea that got its first stride with a dissent that, there are many things, small and big, which are of no use to us. May it be yard trimmings, pizza crusts, apple cores and other food scraps!, they thought of turning everything into energy and compost! The Energy Garden in British Columbia, launched by harvest is an exemplary achievement. It stands to be the largest commercial-scale high solids anaerobic digester in North America. 

This garden is expected to convert up to 40,000 tonnes of food and yard waste per year from area homes, businesses, restaurants and supermarkets into clean energy and compost.

Every innovation that has the power to create and address the challenges of the world represents the exhilarating passion and commitment required to usher in the future of organics management.

The electricity is believed to be cost-effectively and the best part is, it convert organic materials once destined for the landfill into clean energy and compost products. The facility produces enough energy to power approximately 900 homes per year, and provides hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of top quality soil products to local farms, gardens and landscapes.

There are much simpler innovation that has the power to change the world, for example, LED lights. These lights are a great source of non toxic light unlike their counterparts which are manufactured with mercury in them. LED's consume a much lesser amount of energy to produce the same lighting effect that we get from CFL's. 

 

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Invention has the Power to change the world, But!

A lot has been written and said about energy Conservation in the past two decades. The speculated reasons for this supervision is bound to reasons, reasons that need tremendous attention and self less procurement in terms of security and restrictive responsibilities. Inflation, sharp hike in the prices of fuel in Global market, degradation of fossil fuels at a rapid pace, Global warming resulting in glacier depreciation further resulting in Floods and other disturbing calamities; this list of reasons stretches precisely to innumerable in number!

But there are a few organizations that have taken a step further in energy preservation. They are leading a counterproductive to not just spread awareness but create energy from the most unlikely means. For example, an outdoor gym in the northeast of England is allowing all-comers to spin hand bikes, recumbent bikes, and fitness bikes, to generate enough power to light the installation at night. And, in time, the hope is that the gym will also recharge people’s phones and music players, and even send some power back to the grid.

The idea was to construct a space where the people could actually work out with actually turning their physical energies into Electricity. According to an expert from Rhodes University “Running round a park could result in better physique and body metabolism, but its monotonous and boring, especially if you don’t actually like running. But this is something more appealing and agenda driven, which has the power to change how we look at the world”. This park actually sparked up an initiative to harness energy, and almost 10 theme parks mushroomed around the globe giving the model of a new world.

 

 

The same theory was applied in creating an exemplary dance floor by a company in Rotterdam, Netherlands. This modular dance floor system will collect kinetic energy from dancers' movements and converts it into electricity!

Invention has the power to change the world, but our small steps can further embolden these initiatives. For example using LED lighting instead of CFL's, as LED's are more energy efficient, more resilient and more reliable. And don't forget the saving you get on your electricity bill!