Assignment Nine

After working on my Final project I have come up with a different outline which will contain the following (The new items are posted in red):
1 What is energy efficient?
When you think about efficient energy most people think of using less energy. For example, turning off lights when you’re not in that room, or hang drying clothes instead of using the dryer, and ect. These are ways to save/use less energy, but what about change your lighting in the house? What do I mean, for example instead of using the incandescent lights lets change them all out for compact fluorescent. This would be a way to save on energy and money. Another example would be look into changing out old appliances to the new and energy star appliances. “Energy efficient means changing or moving the MOST matter with the LEAST amount of energy” (nvenergy).

2 Why do we need to be more energy efficient?

3 What are some ways to be more energy efficient?
-Change appliances
-Change light bulbs

4 Explanations on energy efficiency lighting?
-Delphi Method
How long till we (U.S.) are more energy efficient in our homes and offices?" was the question I asked in class on Wednesday. We used the Delphi method to discuss how long it would take before this would happen. Before the discussing was done we took a pole and hear is the results: 50,55,60,60,100,200,200-250,infinity,infinity,infinity, don't know. So when finding the median range of this set of numbers it would be 200 years before we would be more energy efficient. Then there was a pole taken after the discussion which were: 60,60,65,100,100,100,100,110-150,150,200-250,infinity. So then taking the median range would now be 100 years before we become more energy efficient.
- Predication of lighting (add ons)
illumination of dark
programmable color (mood detection, example if I am sad the light is blue)
programmable direction
can display information
heat less bulb
- Triz method
Segmentation: Lights, Applications, installation
Taking out: remove the heat, but keep the light
Local Quality: make it where there is a dimmer and directionality
Assymetry: 3-way lighting---- 1 click turns on 2 lights, 2 clicks turns on 3 lights then 3 clicks turns on all 5
Universality: Lights can light up a room and not heat a room
Preliminary action: while making energy efficient bulbs make them smaller at the same time
Continuity of useful action: have the lights have a sensor on them so they can detect when someone is in the room or not( will eliminate people not Turing off lights when they are done)
Color changes: Lights change to your mood........Blue for sad, yellow for happy, etc.
Turn Lemons into Lemonade: make a recyclable light bulb
The other way round: have the light bulb click in instead of screw

5 Specific Lighting Technologies
-Incandescent Lights
-Compact Fluorescent
-LED Lights
-Night Vision Technology?

6 Crime and Lighting
-More light, less crime
-Lighting to expensive, more scarcer, more crime

7 Microwave sulfur in a glass globe

As a part of the cyborgs, mind Hacking, ghosts, ect I am going to use the specific Technologies and have several parts like listed above. I have also started to type the report and now am almost done with Section 1. The red underneath section 1 is the part of the report. I am going to be continuing my research and writing as we go through the rest of the semester.

Tara