First Assignment

This is the completion of our first weekend assignment. We were asked to think about different ways to solve the problems that were face by the people living in the Western China as they went about their daily lives. This assignment required little research and was more of an exploration and a way to get to know everyone's working style.

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This first idea with "Pika Power" is a light-hearted way to look energy harvesting. It explores ways to harvest energy without expending extra energy.



The second idea focuses on different ways to store heat that comes from the kong day during the day, and ways to store and insulate that heat for night use.


My third idea deals with heat retention during the night time, as well as raising the "three stone" cooking fire so that heat storing marital can be placed below the cooking platform.


The last slid deals with the idea of wind energy and putting small wind turbines inside of the smoke stack.