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Do Ink Pen Require Now For Digital E-Signature?

Do ink pen sales drop? As we can see now.., we no longer need to sign any receipt after making merchant payment.

However, at the same time, we still see a shelf with full ink pens at the convenience store or stationery shop. Furthermore, they sell so much for who to buy?

Nevertheless, now students no longer write notes in class, but they can focus on the lecture with the already given print-out. And, with the accessibility for computers, the students can save all the digital notes on their computer, instead of copying notes in written form in the library. Not to stop there, the students no longer need to study in the library as they are accessible to the internet to access the online library.

Hence, we are aware of this revolution that some physical products have been replaced by new digital technologies. Therefore, a company should know and focus on the 'value' that they are trying to deliver after many years with successful sales performances. And it can deliver in any form not only physical, with the help of technologies that have been discovered and created over this digital revolution era.

Established companies with manufacturing plants that have been selling their physical form of products at stores and markets, should take this digital wave opportunity to deliver their company value in a new form that can give more practicality.

Hence, consumers move to new similar products that offer better practicality aspect. This is “innovation” - to change for a better customer experience.

Humans never settle, over time we will look for better alternatives to improve our everyday life. Such as, we want to go to work at a location of 45 kilometres away from home in 30 minutes instead of 1 hour. Soon, we want to go to work in 15 minutes and later, we want to travel to work in 5 minutes.

The needs are the same, but solutions to serve the demand changes overtime to keep up the level of customer experience as human needs that change.

Enemy To Hero: Amazon

Amazon is an e-commerce site that enables consumers to purchase anything from the comfort of their homes. In the beginning, society see that Amazon was replacing or "killing" the traditional retail businesses.

Yes, we are all aware there is higher sales traction in Amazon than in retail businesses. But, retail businesses sales traction has always been like that – never change. Hence, Amazon just enables farther and wider reach to the potential markets.

Traditionally, and till now, commercial real estate are valued based on locations. Prime locations like shopping districts and office buildings have higher traffic of customers visiting compared to the non-prime locations such as at outskirts. And Jeff Bezos see the opportunity of the internet as the new infrastructure that is accessible for everyone in any part of the world. And since everyone holds their smartphones, the online stores are accessible for larger markets with potential customers from across the streets or from the other side of the sea.

As COVID-19 Pandemic occur, conventional retail businesses are unable to have a high traffic of customers visiting their fixed-located stores since the people movement are restricted with the ‘movement control order’. These restrictions make the retail businesses adapt to use an online platform such as social media to market their products and Amazon to sell their products. Imagine if this pandemic occurs back then in the early 90s where the internet was still an infant, maybe they need to close down their businesses.

This makes Amazon a saviour from an enemy in the eye of retail businesses. Amazon is an outcast and a trendsetter. In the future, soon, every business will have most of their sales through online than their physical stores.

I’m in the business development role and I no longer need to go across the states to meet potential clients (that may also result in an unsuccessful deal). With the internet, I can connect with leads via video calls and share highly interactive information easily.

However, it is easier to build trust by interacting with customers face-to-face. And these are the challenges of online business, is it very steep exponential growth with slow starting because very few early adopters will try first and the business need to reduce the entry price for the mass market at the beginning. Trust only can be created from past customers reviews. And there are influencers to promote the products. Influencers with a high number of followers will be contacted by many businesses asking for them to promote the products.

Or maybe the company employees or shareholders can be the influencer (like Elon Musk) to create followers and then promote the company products.

Keeping Up To Satisfy Increasing Demand Of Energy For Consumption May Not Be The Way For Humanity

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As technologies are essential in our lives for every daily activity, this will increase the use of energy for consumption and production.

With the growing population, conventional energy sources may not be sufficient for future generations, the renewable energy are been explore to harness them in an efficient way. But, as we know, humanity always needs more energy for advancements and we will use it excessively but inefficiently since that time the energy is unlimited.

Sometimes, this also will result in exploitation by a certain part of societies, which make some unable to benefit from this unlimited energy. We humans can be greedy when presented with opportunities.

Therefore, we should design technologies that can use energy efficiently. Such as, the world whitest paint has been invented to reduce the internal surrounding temperature. Correspondingly, this invention can reduce the reliance on air conditioning systems or the need for high consumption energy to keep switch air conditioning systems at the lowest temperature setting. The paint is made with different particle sizes of barium sulfate that are commonly used in cosmetics. And these particles are to bounce back the sunlight away and subsequently avoid the surface to heat up.

This aspiration can be relooked and apply to other technologies in our lives such as household appliances, vehicles, and many more. As we need to teach humanity especially the younger generation to be moderate in doing anything in life. For example, drink water excessively can cause brain cells to swell. And this same goes for energy, excessive energy harnesses can be hard to control and may cause more harm than better.

(Inspired by: https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/us-news/scientists-create-worlds-whitest-paint-eliminates-need-for-air-conditioning.html)

Tires That Will Never Stop For Pump Or Change At The Side Of The Road

Image credit to Michelin

Michelin has developed a new type of tire that can revolutionize the whole tire industry very soon. I believe this has been made for the military purposed vehicle. It is called Uptis "Unique Punctureproof Tire System", the tire that doesn't require to pump. It will come as a whole as an aluminium wheel with flexible, elastic and highly resistant spokes made of glass fibre reinforced plastic (GRP).

This innovation can benefit the car owners as they only need to change the tires when they are worn off because the tires will never be punctured. This can eliminate unnecessary times wastage for changing tires, and worst, if an event such the tire are puncture when the car owner is in rush for something.

Other than that, during the pandemic, we need to lessen our touch on the surfaces, and usually, at the Pump and Water in the station, the pump will frequently use by many people. And this is dangerous as affected people with the virus can unintentionally transfer diseases to other users.

Smartglasses For Vloggers To Not Miss A Shot Of Their Moments

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Now watches are like a second phone on our wrist for quick accessibility and look while our smartphones are inside our pocket or handbag. And very soon, Facebook and Luxottica are releasing their advanced eyewear called 'Wayfarer Stories' with some phone features that act as an extension for the user primary phone.

Yes, there are several attempts made by other companies prior to embedding technologies in our wearable but not achieve enough public acceptance. But now, with the rise of influencers especially 'Vloggers' that are documenting their lives, this gadget may be useful for them. Since vloggers always carry a big-heavy digital camera around, sometimes they leave it somewhere right? this is inconvenient for them to take sudden moments where they can't quickly reach their camera.

Hence, this Wayfarer Stories can added value to the vloggers' contents creation with more moments that no longer will be missed to capture like in the past. For now, eyewear is the best position to place a camera in because of the same parallel position as the face where we always turn to look.

These are not only limited to the vloggers market segment but this will adopt by their worldwide fans. Positively, soon we will never miss capturing the beautiful sudden moments in our life to share with others especially our family.

And this is the beginning of the eyewear revolution that later will have the projected lens for a quick look at the information.

Image credit to SPIDERMAN (Paramount Pictures)

Subscribe to support Carbon Capturing Projects For Industry Players To Redeem Their Carbon Emissions

Image credit to Climeworks

The world atmosphere has been collected carbon dioxides since the first industrial revolution. And, with these massive volumes of carbon dioxides that still stay in the air, make planting a lot of trees in the growing populated areas are unfeasible and not cost-effective actually.

Now, there are 15 direct air capture plants that capturing 9 thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide annually. And Climeworks (the Swiss engineering startup) has built the largest direct air capture and storage plant (carbon capture machine) named 'Orca' that can extract a volume of carbon emissions that is equivalent to about 870 cars emission for a year permanently. The plant has container-sized boxes that fit with fans that pull air and filter out the carbon dioxides contains. Then the capture carbon dioxides will dissolve in water as solutions and pump to the underground, over time, the solutions underneath will be hardened into stone.

However, these plants are expensive to operate and selling captured carbon dioxide for industry uses will make more harm. Therefore, this technology is a great investment for the country that committed to The Paris Climate Agreement and putting extreme high taxes on high emitters industry players. Hence, if the companies want to reduce their high carbon emission tax, they need to contribute and make a subscription to support the country carbon-capturing projects, these contributions will be uses to operate and maintain the plant.

These can be crucial steps to enable the world to create and adopt sustainable technologies that don't make pollution while the industries are contributing to funding the carbon-capturing projects in a way to redeem their emissions. It is a zero-sum game; the authorities, societies and industries are helping together to keep the world a healthier place.

RELATED: ‘RACE AGAINST TIME TO COME OUT FEASIBLE CARBON REMOVAL TECHNOLOGY’

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Solar Car Park: Add Purposes To The Community's Existing Structures

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Everyone can feasibly own an Electric Vehicle as there are many infrastructures "park and charge" are built by the states around the cities to support their citizens live sustainably while committed to The Paris Climate Agreement. Besides, many commercial facilities are building free charging ports to attract more visitors.

However, these carports that we start to always see at the gas stations or malls are expensive to build with digging the ground to place the cable that is connected to the utility grid. Moreover, this increases the states and consequently the citizens' utility expenditure and still, rely on the non-renewable source (coal).

Yet, we are sometimes unaware of other structures around our communities that can further innovate to add their other purposes. Such as, the car park rooftop to keep the car under the shades can be used to fit the solar panels which can generate free energy and straight away charge the cars' batteries while parking. The costs are cheaper to build because we don't need large battery storage in the parking load since the cars are charge as their complimentary snacks (energy).

These solar charging car parks are essential as sometimes users forget to charge their cars overnight and they don't have sufficient energy throughout the day. Furthermore, this is the way for the states to help citizens to reduce their burden over high utility bills as solar energy are not OPEX intensive investment.

Modular Phones Are Necessary To Keep Up

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Now we are more reliant on our smartphones than ever to do many things in our lives daily from ordering food to playing games. Moreover, smartphones are becoming a productive tool that is heavily used over laptops.

With the Play Store or App Store, there are tonnes of new releases apps every day and developers are pushing the limits and the capabilities of the existing hardware. Consequently, the phone manufacturer is upgrading their phones frequently to push the new high limits of their phone capabilities for developers to explore and create or update their apps for new user experiences.

This makes upgrading to phones are essentials for society to keep up the productivity level and the conveniences. However, even some manufacturer is trying to build economical smartphones but society still needs to buy a new phone for the useful new features upgrade every year. Besides, this is not a sustainable personal investment to purchase new phones every year as technology are never meant to be "Consumable".

This situation is suitable with using modular phones with a longer use phone chassis but are universal in design to fit with third party gadgets or accessories. These phones can mix and match like Lego and are upgradable. Furthermore, this further expands the smartphones industry with the extension of the post value chain of third-party gadgets which creates many branches of niches markets. These niche markets are groups of users for certain activities such as photography, sport, working, editing and competitive games etc.

Continuous Tidal Energy To Support The Feasible Energy Mix

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Sunlight is available during the daytime and the excess harness energy generate will be store in the battery for later night use (this with hope if there are enough excess to keep since the household is less at home during the day). However, during the COVID-19 pandemic with a control movement order, the monthly consumption of electricity is skyrocket high which makes the solar system electricity generation will not be enough for the unexpected rise of their consumption. Since usually homes install a solar system with a capacity just enough to cover their monthly electricity bill because bigger capacity solar systems are expensive and will be redundant if they can't fully utilize the generated excess energy.

As sunlight is only available during the day and is limited to the system generation capacity, there is another found alternative which is the ocean current. Even the ocean current is inconsistent velocity but they are continuous throughout the day and night, and the ocean current from one direction will turn the turbine as a tidal effect and the turns will generate the electricity.

The Orbital Marine Power has developed as claimed by them the most powerful turbine called "Orbital 02 2MW". The turbine is float on the water surface and anchored with the subsea cable that links to the electricity network under the ocean which is connected to the utility grid on land. The turbine will turn by the moving current and the rate of electricity generation is in accordance with the strength of the current. This technology has the capacity to generate annual electricity for 2,000 homes.

This is an initiative to tackle some limitations and to achieve a 100% sustainable energy mix (solar, tidal, hydro and bio) that can be reliable and to displace the use of hydrocarbon materials completely.

RELATED: "BREAKING THE CODE OF THE SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FULLEST POTENTIAL"

(Reference: https://orbitalmarine.com/)

Technologies Are For All Human Wellbeing: Drinkable Desalinated Seawater

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At the earlier times, the country has the necessities such as water, electricity and gas that were enough for the locals, however, as the economy spur there will be no end to future developments and this creates jobs opportunities that attract people from other states or overseas into the country. Hence, this growing population at a drastic rate will outweigh the available resources in that country. Yes, they can import goods from neighbouring countries or overseas, however, this is not sustainable as they are only paying high mark-up price necessities which will soon deplete their wealth.

Therefore, for the country to grow sustainably, is by creating the resources locally by reinvesting the profits from their other strong industry into the development that can counter the country weakness. For example, for the country that is located in a dry location but near the sea, they are developing the desalination plant to get fresh water. This desalination plant has tanks with solar domes, and the process is, the seawater inside the dome will evaporate by the local environment's heat that are been radiated toward inside the tank using a solar reflector dome. As the water evaporates, this will separate them from the salt, this should be done in the controlled temperatures to prevent distillation instead - the separation of water from the nutrients which the human body needed them as well. Then, the desalinated water will be drip into the tank and collected as drinkable water.

Hence, technology is the solution for human well being, supported by engineering skills that by using available and accessible resources to create tools to overcome the barriers.

(Reference: https://interestingengineering.com/solar-domes-could-desalinate-seawater-at-a-commercial-scale)

Electric Sea Freight Protect The People Products' Affordable Prices

'Electric' Sea Freight Will Stop The Fuel Prices Unnecessarily Affecting The Carried Items' Prices

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The transportation sector contributes around 14% of the total global carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; road vehicles contribute about 10%, the aerospace industry contributes about 3% and the shipping industry contributing up to 3% according to the International Maritime Organization [1] [2]. To suppress these damaging fumes, especially road vehicles, the manufacturer is adopting electric technology to stop emitting carbon dioxide while travelling.

In the shipping industry, the company Yara International has built Yara Birkeland a zero-emission and autonomous cargo ship. Yara Birkeland is capable to carry 103 containers and travel at a top speed of 13 knots and it is powered by a 7 Mwh battery equivalent to one thousand electric vehicles batteries.

Electric Sea Freight like Yara Birkeland is the solution to maintain the carried items’ prices even fuel prices are changing in variances every time (note: if the electricity is from renewable energy sources that are free and unlimited at a certain time of the day - this can be supported by the battery storage). Since, like always, fuel prices never stay stagnant and simultaneously indirectly affect the retail prices of the carried items too. This creates difficulty for the businesses and consumers when required to purchase essential items at sudden high prices.

Furthermore, other benefits are, electric sea freight have lesser moving components and which requires less maintenance. Less maintenance is beneficial because this can cut down the undeployed time of the sea freight. As we can see now, the sea freight supply readiness is limited to support the growing demand for online purchases between countries/seas.

Therefore, for the future, making sea freight electric will be useful to make these main parts of the supply chain controllable and adaptable to the high amount of cargo. While, as a shield to maintain the carried item’s prices which will benefit the end consumer.

(Inspired: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/25/world/yara-birkeland-norway-crewless-container-ship-spc-intl/index.html)

Reference:

"The impact of global warming on the automotive industry" - Author: Ralf Hannappel
"Planes Or Cars – Which Pollutes The Most? Which Is More Sustainable?" - Author: André Gonçalves

Breaking The Code Of The Sustainable Energy Fullest Potential

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As in the image above, the Norway company “Wind Catching Systems” claims with five of their innovative floating “Windcatcher”s can produce up to the same amount of electricity as 25 conventional turbines.

Windcatcher is designed where there are a group of small turbines constructed in an array formation on a single platform and collectively able to generate five times energy compared to the single world’s biggest conventional turbines. Besides, Windcatcher is cheaper to produce as with the small turbines they don’t require a big mould and simultaneously don't require high heat energy to manufacture as for 107 metres big blades. Furthermore, Windcatcher is cheaper to run with their smaller turbines, since the only particular damaged turbine only will be repaired or replace as other turbines still operating, this design can avoid downtime or power shut down because of maintenance. These will contribute to the country being able to achieve higher energy per cost of investment. Hence, the government is able to make use more of their national budget for other developments that can benefit the citizen.

The world not only realised that renewable energies are clean and free but, they also can be dense of energy if they are been extract or capture or channel correctly, as not every energy sources are handle in the same way. Depends on the geographical areas; some have a very strong wind and some are very sunny throughout the day, and the engineers are working hard to develop the right infrastructure that is cost-efficient and high energy generates per square meter to received what these renewable energies have to offer. Besides, they also work on the supporting infrastructures such as the loss-less high energy storage in a compact size, other than that, they are developing low to zero resistance cable to transfer enough energy at a further distance without inputting high unnecessary excess-soon-to-be-waste energy from the source or the distribution (transformers).

(Inspired: https://asiatimes.com/2021/08/norways-windcatchers-project-a-very-tall-task/)

Building's Hoody To Not To Keep It Warm But Opposite

The rise of global warming and working in poor ventilation buildings can make us go mad under a humid temperature if the air conditioning system not functioning well. This is especially for office and commercial buildings with their water-cooled chillers are always keep running around the clock to keep the internal temperature at the comfort level. However, this required high electricity usage which consequently contributing to the greenhouse effect that leads AGAIN to global warming. In addition, high electricity usage will increase the building owners or rentees operating expenditure from the high utility bills.

Therefore, the building should be designed to avoid cold air escape the building or mix with hot air from the outer environment. Such technologies needed are:

Use of innovative wall paint that keeps cold air inside rather than conventionally let them escape through the permeable concrete
Mirror tinted with layers that bounce some array of sunlight
A valved air ventilation system that doesn't let hot air from entering inside
More use of automatic doors to always keep the building close

Race Against Time To Come Out Feasible Carbon Removal Technology

Source: XPRICE

As countries are developing feasible technologies to stop the reliance on fossil fuels (hydrocarbon) as a primary energy source, the world has already been damaged by a high amount of greenhouse gases that have been emitted since the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Hence the world temperature has been too high to lower down to The Paris Climate Agreement preferable goal of below 1.5 degrees celcius.

Therefore, at the same time, we need to start developing technologies to capture these already emitted carbon dioxides in the atmosphere. However, these technologies that will come out in near future should not be a reason for the industry to keep relying on fossil fuels, as the purpose is not to maintain the carbon level but also to reduce them as lowest as possible over time. With the known downsides of the carbon substances in our life, we hope we will be able to breathe clean air in the future.

For a team that successfully come out with carbon removal solutions to capture at least 1000 tonnes of carbon dioxide in one year. They will be funded with 100 Million Dollars from Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation, for the team to expand their research and development to increase the carbon capture rate of their breakthrough technology.

Technology is to keep humans to advances for a better life than before rather than to stay settle in life because life will be dull and sickening by compromising the potential of the world to be the best place in the universe.

Go change the world at: https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk

Consistent-Anytime Energy That Also Don't Require Storage

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Tidal Energy requires a consistent windy geographical environment and Solar Energy which require consistent brights day-lights. Hence, that's the complication, these mainstream alternative energies require a consistent nature environment that can't be controlled by humans.

And now, Brandon Sorbom is working on alternative energy that also doesn't require burning carbon-based materials, and it is called Fusion Energy. This energy is a virtually unlimited resource that can generate in any weather condition. Fusion Energy is generated by the process by which two atoms slam into each other and fuse into one heavier atom (this process is exactly what powers the sun).

We will look forward to such a centralized infrastructure that is safe in the middle of the city to power the across its kilometres of radius surrounding area. Besides, the process stills require "fuel" supply, the isotopes hydrogen for its inputs. So this makes it may not completely unlimited energy yet... but we'll see.

(Reference: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/12/commonwealth-fusion-backed-by-gates-bezos-for-unlimited-clean-energy.html)

Is Centralised State's Energy Storage Is The Future?

The will be the largest energy storage (as a centre) with the capacity of 409-MegaWatt capacity with 132 containers on 40 acres and each container hold about 400 battery modules. This storage centre can hold 900MWh of energy which can power up to 54,833 medium-sized homes for 12 hours equivalent it can power a low-density state overnight.

The largest energy storage may be a solution for the states to adapt with energy as a sustainable utility for homes. But due to the technology demand for spaces may not make it the best general solution for every geographical place or their demography.

I have enlightened that the state can make homes compulsory to construct with equipped underground battery space and the battery units will be provided by the state. These battery units from each home are actually to share with the rest of the neighbourhood instead of for self-consumption. Because humans activities are varied every time as no one have rigid lifestyles. Furthermore, in actual reality, the self-consumption system may have excess when the households are not at their homes in that particular months (school holiday etc.), and this excess with a network of share energy storage system can be utilized by other homes that require more electricity in that particular period.

Therefore for future developments, sharing energy storage systems across the state may be the solution to combat the barrier of having limited real estate to build an energy storage facility, instead, rather than wasting lands, the state can set up a solar farm to power all homes and buildings (as not all buildings with flat roof or enough space to install solar panels). Other than that, the 40 acres can be utilized to build a complex for economic development and for the residents' social wellbeing.

There is no better way to actually live together prosperously and equally as a society with unlimited resources...

(Reference: https://electrek.co/2021/08/16/worlds-largest-solar-powered-battery-system-is-now-75-complete/)

How To Make Current Infrastructure Future Ready For Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles have their benefits for the environment and users, and have their drawbacks in travelling at long-range miles. Yes, manufacturers are producing batteries with high storage, but these will comes with weights. The weights will be damaging the performances and components of the vehicle especially suspensions and tyres. In addition, charging a bigger battery will require longer charging times than already the current battery technology that takes the whole night to get the car fully charged. Hence, high storage batteries are not a magic bullet to solve the main issues of having electric vehicles that repel the majority of the consumer to not adapting towards future sustainable technology.

The infrastructure can be the essential factor to support the usability of electric vehicles, such as embedding charging technology in the roads, however, these will cost a lot from overhauling the whole roads and highways. Moreover, putting a ground charging car park may not be practical for the vehicles that are always on the move. To emphasize here, the complete transition to electric vehicles is essential to make the electric vehicles viable for the future, which by making vehicles for deliveries and patrolling are practically accessible to the energy conveniently. Right now, filling up a tank in few minutes is very practical in a fast-moving society and forgetting to charge an electric vehicle overnight will be a disaster on the next day.

Therefore, we should embed energy receiver technology on the electric vehicles themselves, these “energy receivers” are solar cells. Since, solar technologies are getting lighter, cheaper and generate higher energy per square meter. Moreover, electric vehicles don’t require large batteries for long travel without charging, instead, the vehicles can just use the regular battery for night use (which people travel less) and during the day the vehicles can charge on the move.

These solar technologies can complement the charging station/parking, instead of spendings a lot on overhauling the whole existing infrastructure in the country. It’s not worth the investment to destroy the existing expensive infrastructure. And, maintaining the road will be dangerous and hassle.

(Inspired: https://singularityhub.com/2021/08/09/magnetizable-concrete-in-roads-could-charge-electric-cars-while-you-drive/)

Can Climate Change Stopped?

Paris Climate Agreement where countries putting their pledge to cut down the carbon emission in their country industries. And the combined goal is to keep the earth temperature not more than 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit, this is by cutting the greenhouse emissions to zero within 40 years period.

In the discussion in the article "Computer Models Of Civilization Offer Routes To Ending Global Warming" there are various efforts that have been talking with hope to stopped climate change. Such as:

1. The energy that emits carbon monoxide, are increased in price rate to catalyst society behaviour to consume energy at unnecessary-excessively level or to look to adapt in a new sustainable way.
1.1. People will live in smaller energy-savings houses.
1.2. People will use public transportation and sharing-vehicles more instead of heavily rely or completely give up their petrol cars.

However, unfortunately, according to the computer model, these efforts are not realistic because all the new technologies that help human lives efficiently at any moment will result in more and more energy will be consuming. Hence, this consumer-technology market growing will actually against the Paris target.

But, as we are aware now the renewable energy technologies especially solar panels and inverters are getting cheaper over time and economically accessible for people to install at their homes to save their utility bills. In addition, the price not only gets more economical, furthermore, the technologies able to generate higher electricity significantly.

(Source: "Computer Models Of Civilization Offer Routes To Ending Global Warming")

Lightyear One: a Solar-Powered Vehicle

Image credit to Lightyear

We love our world that we will keep pursuing on innovations to keep our world sustainable. Electric Vehicle (EV) has already reached large awareness throughout the world with their goodness compared to Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Vehicle in terms of features, prices, running cost, performances and the impact to the environment and the society.

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EV does removing the emissions when travelling, which make them better than ICE. However, the EV has not yet solved the problem of not completely stop reliance on coal plants as the major source of energy. Other than that, not every home are equipped with a solar system to power their EV sustainably and economically.

But now, Lightyear, the company have built a better innovation that can less rely on the grid power and at the same time make the product accessible to own economically at everywhere, especially for settler that lives far from the city or charging/petrol station.

Their EV called 'One' are covered with solar cells on top of the roof and hood, furthermore, with one hour of charging using solar energy, the One can travel up to 12 kilometres. Plus, the black solar cells might make the "new-trendy" sporty look for EVs like ICEs using carbon fibre material hood. In addition, the EV is designed in the best aerodynamically shape to reduce its drag and save energy while travelling.

These breakthrough innovations will make the industry embarking on the journey to make transport not only completely sustainable but also can self-generate their energy without reliance on the grid or charging infrastructure. This will improve human life efficiently as we do not need to worry about the capability of the EV to travel at a longer distance since the One has travelled about 710 kilometres on a single charge since the One can travel while charging using solar cells.

(Source: https://lightyear.one/)

The Future Of Energy Transfer 'Connected' - James Dyson Award

I have presented my written idea and am able to have my written presentation published on James Dyson Award online gallery.

Click Here to the gallery: https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/en-MY/2021/project/connected-continuable-energy-transfer/

CONNECTED: CONTINUABLE ENERGY TRANSFER

"CONNECTED will prevent our phone batteries from running out or lower than 20%"

We not only need the energy to travel, but we also need to use the energy for home appliances and gadgets (smartphone included). Moreover, our consumption of energy will always increase as more innovation & invention / technology advances & new technologies will be added in our lives. But we don't need more wires.

Enlightened by Solar Photovoltaic System, we can extract energy from the sun, therefore, we can reverse the process by following The Law of Conservation of Energy.

CONNECTED CONTINUABLE ENERGY TRANSFER(2)

Image 1: We just slot the receiver to the charge port and continue with our daily chores with worry-less.

How it works:

The "Transmitter" connected to the socket acts as an inverter to convert energy from AC to safe radiation. Then, the receiver at the charging port will detect and receiving the energy transfer once the user enters the radiation radar. The "Receiver" will convert it to the AC and charge the phone. And we continue with our daily chores with worry-less enjoying the Spotify Playlist for 10 hours straight or play games for 10 hours straight.

CONNECTED CONTINUABLE ENERGY TRANSFER(4)

Image 2: This is a breakthrough to enable further innovation for higher energy and farther transfer.

Currently, in the market, there is wireless near-field energy transfer with the Charging Platform for the phone to be placed on it to charge "wirelessly". But,... CONNECTED will enable our phone to charge in our pocket while on the move within the radar from the transmitter. Recommend for domestic use.

Right now, we, humans, are figuring out the reverse process to create the radiation to transfer energy in the free space without conductivity rather with waves to transfer electrical energy of a tightly focused radio beam at the optimum frequency and bandwidth as envisioned by Nikola Tesla. However, 5G infrastructure is at its infant to develop for energy transfer.

As an initiative, this modular device "CONNECTED" will be introduced in near future for home usage which can accelerate the continuable energy transfer technology in our lives. This transmitter device "CONNECTED" has a magnetic coil that induces a magnetic field that carries a frequency that is able to power light devices such as smartphones.

In the future, we are inspired to build a large scale transmitter (similar to a 5G tower but dedicated for electricity transfer) to emit high safe-radiation transferring large energy to use for the larger machines. As “We always connected to the internet. Machines can be connected to energy at all times too”. Furthermore, these new energy form that is non-physical and can't be touch unlike the conventional can reduce the storages in the value chain particularly removing the need of storage in the process (convention) stage.