Now that we see what our collective and personal impact is on the planet, let's think big!
What big and bold ideas do you have for reducing personal, community, country and even global carbon footprints?
Use this space to develop and discuss your big ideas! Who knows- maybe one of these ideas can be the next key solution to the global climate challenge!
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Energy Turbines at Bottom of Roof water Drains
My Idea is too add small, affordable water turbines at the bottom of the drainage pipes of roofs. The gravity would force the water to go down the drain pipe, and at the bottom there would be a water-mill-type turbine that would spin, therefore produce energy. These would be highly effective in places where it rains a lot, and would be affordable. Eventually they would pay themsleves off because the energy produced would cost more than the item.
I forgot to mention: This would help with global warming because it would utilize a system that is not being taken advantage of to produce energy, reducing the average energy usage of homes. Because the energy is not being used up from fossil fuels, it is beneficial towards reducing carbon footprints. House heating, cooling, and related energy consumption makes up proximately 20% of the gas emissions, so this would be effective in significantly reducing that numebr
Work Cited
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1 … olds%20(1).