I’m going to talk about bicycle, which is tightly connected with our daily life. As a way of transportation, the popularity of bicycles has outweighs that of any other way of transportation in my country. As I am from China, we ride bicycles everyday everywhere. Bicycle, in some degree, has become a partner in our daily life. As a result, I’m considering finding something new in my “partner” to make it more effective and beneficial to human beings.
Recently, I researched on website to see whether there is any unique idea about the improvement of bicycles. As a result, I indeed found some useful and meaningful ideas about the bicycles.
This bran-new bicycle design is called “Re, energy” by its designer. The uniqueness of this bicycle is that the bicycles could deposit the energy human beings consume when they ride on them, and transfer the energy to the electronic applications like laptop or cell phones. Compared with ordinary bicycle, designer tried to install a device and a USB interface. The device is composed of coil set, generator, aupport, battery, cover and mark which save the energy given off by human. The USB interface is designed to transfer the chemical energy to the electronic applications.
I believe this design is intelligent and unique. The newly designed bicycles achieve the maximum efficiency of energy application. As the energy completion and deteriorate of environment have threatened human being’s life, application of green technology and multi-level use of energy are emphasized. As we will consume a lot of energy in daily life, how this energy could be generated has been a new topic in scientific field. This design is a typical application of human energy. From this case, we could also design similar products. For example, a specific floor could be built so that it could generate the energy when people step on it. Also, when people practice running, storage could generate heat from human and transfer the energy to other field.
For further design, we could apply the energy multiple-level-use to our bran-new products. As the increasing importance of energy recycle and the maximization of energy application, the energy multiple-level-use products will have a bright prospect and be meaningful and beneficial to ourselves and our future generation.
I think that you need to keep in mind that something like that would need to probably cost a lot of money. Not many people/corporations would be willing to invest money something that would make them lose money. Maybe you could think of some way to make something similar but small enough such that no money would be lost in the use of the object.
回复删除As one would expect with a project of this magnitude which would have dramatic implications in terms of efficient use of energy, the initial investment will no doubt be very large. There will definitely be many people, especially in an emerging market country like China, looking to advance the development of such a product. Where the country which has the worlds largest population considers the bicycle a 'partner', there will be so many people who can offer ideas to make this project cheaper to do on a large scale. Basically what I believe the next stage of this concept is to have someone develop a bicycle that is very cheap to purchase and maintain.
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Your idea is quite up-to-date, as energy is necessary in our life. But in practice human energy when riding a bike is not so high, not to mention the loss during the transfter. The success of your idea would be dependent on the affordability and enviromental awareness of citizens. To be honest, I do not think Chinese people would make both of them. It has to be practical in some way.
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