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Popularity Gym Energy
Imagine all of the fitness conscious individuals working out at the gym on all of the bikes, steppers, and other machinery. ...
Submitted by: damianheine
Category: Power Conservation
Save that cold water!
My idea would deal with water conservation. People waste a lot of water while they're waiting for it to turn hot. I'd inven...
Submitted by: apalmatron
Category: E-waste
Lights Out
In bathrooms at commercial and industrial sites the use of a motion sensor for lighting could be useful. The bathroom lights...
Submitted by: apalmatron
Category: Power Conservation
Gyms as power plants?
There is untapped power in gyms! Take the power generated by treadmills and bicycles and rowing machines and hook it up to t...
Submitted by: neongreen78
Category: Untapped Resources
Refurbish
refurbish computors replacing non working parts with new parts, and selling them for less
Submitted by: darronlloyd
Category: E-waste
Lease Program
Institue a computer leasing program to allow consumers to upgrade as technology changes without having to "toss" their old co...
Submitted by: ssautter
Category: E-waste
Energy from highways
My idea is to harness power from the constant movement of cars on the highway. By either using the wind generated by the car...
Submitted by: mlarimore
Category: Power Conservation
Francis
Use sign language to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Submitted by: steviechs
Category: Power Conservation
Turn Keyboards into Poetry
Turn junk into poetryrrTurn broken keyboards into magnetic poetry. Take the keyboard apart, apply adhesive magnetic tape to t...
Submitted by: niunia
Category: E-waste
Pinecones
Tapping the earth's waste ... taking the sugar residue from pine cones and converting it into usable energy.
Submitted by: agabrys
Category: Untapped Resources
Rocket + Sun = No Waist
Gather all the worlds e-waist and load it on to as many rockets as necessary and launch them on a trajectory towards the sun....
Submitted by: 0111000001100100
Category: E-waste
Heat-Island Generator
Implement Peltier device on roof of office building and generate electricity from heat by using Seebeck effect.
Submitted by: tiktax
Category: Power Conservation
Tape to Twine
With most people no longer owning VCRs it seems there may be alot of people trashing VHS Tapes in the near future. My idea i...
Submitted by: apalmatron
Category: E-waste
Reduction of Cell Phone Waste
I THINK IF ALL CELLULAR COMPANIES WOULD ENABLE ALL EXISTING CELL PHONES TO BE AUTOMATICALLY UPDATED WITH THE NEWEST TECHNOLOG...
Submitted by: rec40509
Category: E-waste
Plastic Eating Bacteria
Plastic is a polymer and its uniform structure should yield to certain types of modified bacteria, similar to the type applie...
Submitted by: bcsaller
Category: E-waste
Cell Tower Wind Monitors
rWind energy is plentiful but it's site specific. Just because wind is steady and strong in the middle of a county doesn't m...
Submitted by: joeface
Category: Untapped Resources
Telecommuting Superhighway
Create telecommuting superhighway to ensure high-speed access and acces to collaboration tools and software to all companies ...
Submitted by: jeray60
Category: Power Conservation
Viral Organic Oil
To summarize: A centralized and publicized website, organized by geography, at which backyard gardeners can organize, trade, ...
Submitted by: jagrogan
Category: Untapped Resources
Computer that could last 10 years or more
One great solution for e-waster would a creation of a new computer standard, that would allow users to easily replace process...
Submitted by: fzangerolame
Category: E-waste
Using the wind generated but a computer fan to charge a small device
Every little watts of power will help, why not create a mini wind mill inside of each computer attached to the fan, the power...
Submitted by: fzangerolame
Category: Untapped Resources
Crank power generated under our desks while working
We sit down for so long in our offices, why not have a small bicycle underneath our desk that is connect to a crank power gen...
Submitted by: fzangerolame
Category: Untapped Resources
grow chaguar, a South American textile fiber
Kentucky rejects hemp as a cash crop due to ignorance in science; yet sell hemp products from foreign countries. Go figure, i...
Submitted by: magnusonart
Category: Untapped Resources
Modernize the world
Instead of throwing away old computers and millions of CRT monitors, on top of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of netw...
Submitted by: theeagleguy
Category: E-waste
Clear House
Let every walls be clear. rWe can use sunlight in behalf of artifitial light.
Submitted by: cattleya
Category: Power Conservation
New Biofuel
Use excrements as biofuel for the personal mobilities. Our ancesters used them to grow up plants.
Submitted by: cattleya
Category: Untapped Resources
Tidal Power Generation
We need to use the power of the tide in areas like the Bay of Fundy where tides range up to 20+ feet. Create a dam that could...
Submitted by: pbarger321
Category: Untapped Resources
Solar Farms
The government should build solar farms on some of the numerous lots of unused land across the nation where there is plenty o...
Submitted by: genexe
Category: Untapped Resources
Plastic Eating Bacteria
Plastic is a polymer and its uniform structure should yield to certain types of modified bacteria, similar to the type applie...
Submitted by: bcsaller
Category: E-waste
Windpower from some old parts
Have an old motor and some PVC pipe laying around? Add a few more parts and after several weekends of work have your own wind...
Submitted by: rbryant1
Category: Power Conservation
Sleep Fucntion on Appliances.
Millions of watts of power are wasted everyday usually because the common appliances we use are still pluged in when we use t...
Submitted by: ttaylormakeawish
Category: Power Conservation
FIXMAS
According to the NRF we spent about $430 Billion on Christmas in 2005. What if, instead of buying each other junk we don't wa...
Submitted by: jessephillips
Category: Untapped Resources
Plug N Play Computer - Upgrade only the parts that you want to.
This is my idea for a "plug n play" computer. instead of upgrading the entire computer you can replace the cpu, hard drive, v...
Submitted by: loomisb
Category: E-waste
Make companies accountable
I would make all the technology companies responsible for recycling all the equipment they produce and put out into the world...
Submitted by: tjhooker
Category: E-waste
Keyboard Garden
Turn your old keyboards into planters
Submitted by: angdipi
Category: E-waste
Recycled laptop
Make a laptop out of recycled plastic.
Submitted by: ssautter
Category: Untapped Resources
Solar-Powered Transportation System
A Solar-Powered Personal Transportation System which uses privately-owned self-elevating vehicles that travel non-stop on an ...
Submitted by: rprutton
Category: Untapped Resources
Bottle Model
Require retailers to charge a 'deposit' fee when they sell electronics which can be redeemed when it is returned- much like b...
Submitted by: jeray60
Category: E-waste
Help The Poor
Send off Old working PC's to 3rd world countries like africa where schools can use them to educate those kids who cannot affo...
Submitted by: kiranbaj
Category: E-waste
Program gene
Just program and develop aimed and specific human gene whatever you want by taking action like learning or exercise. For exam...
Submitted by: adawbpl
Category: Power Conservation
Electronic Highways
An electronic highway.rNot sure the details -but the idea replicated the race tracks we all played with as kids.rIt has to be...
Submitted by: bjeffreys
Category: Power Conservation
Integrate Transit
Why are school buses just used for schools? In most cities across the US, transit systems struggle for revenue. why not integ...
Submitted by: campreverb
Category: Power Conservation
Garbage sorter
In India even empty water bottles that are thrown away are harvested by people and sorted for reuse. The categorization is do...
Submitted by: viswanathgondi
Category: E-waste
Return to Sender
Everything that is sold electronically should come in a box that also serves as a pre-paid mailer that sends said device to t...
Submitted by: hurleycopy
Category: E-waste
Mulching Mowers Reduce Waste
rEncourage people to use mulching mowers. This will save on tipping fees that are charged to towns and will return mulched up...
Submitted by: hurleycopy
Category: Power Conservation
Cut water use by 70%
Nearly 70% of all water use in a household is from lawn irrigation. With diminishing clean water supplies, towns and cities s...
Submitted by: hurleycopy
Category: Untapped Resources
Micro-Footprint Best Buy
Partner with WolrdEconomic Forum or Clinton Initiative to create Micro Best Buy technology store formats to bring a technolog...
Submitted by: jeray60
Category: Untapped Resources
Beowulf Supercomuting Cluster
Recycle traded in PCs to build the worlds largest Beowulf parallel processing super computer platform(s). Open access to edu...
Submitted by: jeray60
Category: Untapped Resources
Telecommuting Internet Superhighway
Develop 'telecommuting' superhighway network. Government funded high speed network that supports uniquitous high-quality vid...
Submitted by: jeray60
Category: Power Conservation
Spring genator
Why cant we use a spring to be used as a genator to charge those uesful item such as cell phones and MP3 players. A self cont...
Submitted by: trewblu
Category: Power Conservation
Battery Disposal
Mandate that all pharmacies / large grocery stores which sell regular batteries have battery disposal bins side by side with ...
Submitted by: shahadar
Category: E-waste
SAVE GAS
BILLIONS OF GALONS OF GAS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF LABOR SPENT TO MOW GRAS AT THE ROAD SIDE !! WHO CARES LET IT GROW, IT WI...
Submitted by: big-dave
Category: Power Conservation
I see Music. iGUITAR
Use any hardware to create a flat screen digital imaging GUITAR. The guitar body will be of any shape or unique new sculptura...
Submitted by: magnusonart
Category: E-waste
Electric Scrub
Use electric codes as scrubbing brushes.
Submitted by: cattleya
Category: E-waste
Pedal powered monitors for all!!
I propose that you hook up the computer monitor to some efficient bicycle pedals under the desk, so that to power the monitor...
Submitted by: neongreen78
Category: Untapped Resources
Reduce Urban Runoff By Creating a Rain Garden
"A rain garden is a planted depression that is designed to take all, or as much as possible, of the excess rainwater run-off ...
Submitted by: rbryant1
Category: Power Conservation
Credit Where Credit is Due:
Tax credits to get rid of the old and bring in the new. Laws to subsidize corporate level recycling.
Submitted by: jordanlund
Category: E-waste
Pay it forward
E-waste should be fixed if broken and donated to people that cannot afford to buy such expensive items.
Submitted by: neeter26
Category: E-waste
Smart Heated Towel Rack
Dry towels every time, with no energy wasted, thanks to an internal scale, timer, and microprocesso-controlled heating elemen...
Submitted by: pspinrad
Category: Power Conservation
Webcams can help keep monitor power usage down.
Many of us already have webcams, and companies like Apple are integrating them into displays. Let's make them work for us:rr1...
Submitted by: kerfishe
Category: Power Conservation
Hamster Wheel Generator For Children
Human-sized hamster wheels that look like playground equipment, but in fact are connected to turbines that generate electrici...
Submitted by: brantozeke
Category: Untapped Resources
Home Comfort System
Allowing the user to set the desired humidity, with max and min temp could save much energy. By monitoring the temp / humidit...
Submitted by: spidur1
Category: Power Conservation
Fitness Power
Americans are obsessed with fitness and spend hours on exercise machines like stairmasters, eliptical trainers, treadmills, e...
Submitted by: sfkate
Category: Untapped Resources
Solar Skyscrapers
A semi-transparent energy collecting coating that could be applied to the windows of skyscrapers. It would also act as a met...
Submitted by: m14thom
Category: Untapped Resources
Solar Power Lines
Put solar panels on power line poles, and then have the solar power energy feed directly into the main line. Power lines are...
Submitted by: fletchlives
Category: Untapped Resources
Solar Power from Roads
I would like to see our roadways used to generate energy. Solar and Hydraulic are possibilities.
Submitted by: drallar
Category: Untapped Resources
Super Trees
Isolate the genes that enable plants to respirate, taking from a plant that does so very rapidly and place it into other pla...
Submitted by: m14thom
Category: Untapped Resources
Untapped resources
If the city gives out recycling bins, why not also compost bins? They could be house to house, or street to street, and then...
Submitted by: katanncan
Category: Untapped Resources
Drinking water out of thin air.
A solution to bring a limitless suppy of drinking water to those most in need. Ever wonder why water drips from the back of ...
Submitted by: agent2592
Category: Untapped Resources
Geeks on Wheels
Make all Geek Squad agents ride pedicabs instead of using cars. Store the energy from all the peddling in a battery in the b...
Submitted by: chiz147
Category: Power Conservation
E-Exchange
"send the parts down a conveyor to be recycled and redistributed back out to the companies.
Submitted by: dachmar33
Category: E-waste
Mobile Motion Power
Use everyday human motion to charge mobile devices like cell phones and iPods - just like how flashlights and watches can cha...
Submitted by: eddroid
Category: Untapped Resources
Feast or famine.
Eat consciously. One pound of beef protein production resources are enough to produce sixteen pounds of equivalent vegetable...
Submitted by: thorsdottir
Category: Untapped Resources
The Green Cell Phone
Make a phone with as many biodegrable pieces as possible and people will get to show off about how they go the extra mile to ...
Submitted by: josbon
Category: E-waste
Viewers and judges alike were impressed with nine innovative ways to help Geek Squad combat some of the world’s sustainability problems. We’re footing the bill for these individuals to collaborate with some of the world’s greatest thinkers at the 2007 IdeaFestival, September 13–15, Louisville, KY.
Heat-Island Generator
tiktax
Implement Peltier device on roof of office building and generate electricity from heat by using Seebeck effect.
Cell phones that can help make the planet a better place? And this is just one of the turn-your-head-around winning ideas that effectively uses waste to improve our world.
Heating an entire office more efficiently by using something hot and cold? This just gives you some idea of how amazing these winning ideas are.
Imagine powering all of your iPods, cell phones and other mobile devices just by walking around. See more of the human-inspired ideas created by our winners.
Watch the winners turn a big idea into an even bigger reality, Join Geek Squad at the IdeaFestival Do Tanks.
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