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Amount of funding awarded
$1216.104
Budget Report
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How the program has supported you
Through PAF funding, we have been able to manufacture and test our prototypes to assess their economic feasibility and potential for electricity generation for the past design cycle. We were also able to purchase equipment such as a band saw and drill press which helped us create our final wooden prototype last design cycle. These tools helped us create multiple prototypes out of wood by allowing us to cut pieces to the same dimensions of our 3D models. Then, we ran our prototypes through various tests to test durability, energy output and economic feasibility.
Outcomes
Last design cycle, we had a total of 7 UBC Engineering students, including 3 first year students who participated in the project and as a result, got valuable experience working with their hands and interacting with each other and other teams. We also used the engineering design cycle and the iterative process taught in APSC 100 to model our project.
The outcome of our project is to research and develop methods to efficiently harvest renewable energy. The first point is that humans produce a lot of wasted energy to our surroundings, which can be used to generate electricity with energy harvesting. The second is that about 18% of Canada’s electricity come from non-renewable sources like natural gas, coal, and petroleum. The third and final point is that 82% of greenhouse gas emissions come from the production and consumption of energy. Finding cost-effective and innovative solutions to these problems brings us one step closer to reducing climate change.
