GenV Campaigns

Solar-Powered Cooker Wins Global Award

Posted on 15. Apr, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

A global Climate Change Challenge to find the most innovative solution to climate change has yielded a clear winner – Kyoto Box.
It’s a $5 cooker that uses two cardboard boxes – one inside another – and an acrylic cover to trap the sun’s power for boiling and cooking.  The design is simple enough that it [...]

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VENTURE: Integrated Solar Cooking

Posted on 13. Apr, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

Max Ozimek, 14, USA - I am starting an integrated solar cooking project in Obia-Zeu, Uganda. Integrated solar cooking uses solar cookers, rocket stoves, and haybaskets to reduce the use of firewood as a fuel source.
Solar cookers are used to cook cleanly and inexpensively when the sun is shining. Fuel efficient stoves (“rocket stoves”) are made [...]

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INTERVIEW: Eden Full on Inventions

Posted on 07. Apr, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

Most teens have never heard the term “photovoltaics” let alone know what it is – a type of technology that turns solar energy into electricity.
But not Eden Full.  The 16-year-old Canadian teen knows enough about the field that she has even invented a new device that can help solar panels maximize their performance.
How?  Her [...]

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VENTURE: Dynamic Photovoltaics

Posted on 25. Feb, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

Eden Full, 16, Canada – Harvesting solar energy can be a costly enterprise but Dynamic Photovoltaics is making it more affordable by developing the first cost-effective solar panel tracking system capable of accurate movement.  That means the panels can track the sun throughout the day for maximum performance.
Not only is the system easy to operate, [...]

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IDEA: Solar Wood Kilns

Posted on 12. Jan, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

Pasha, 19, USA - Solar Wood Kilns.
Many wood drying facilities are electrical but a solar powered wood kiln would save tons of money and wood could possibly still be dried at a high rate. 
The solar wood kiln is a very high tech yet low tech idea. 
This idea is being explored by my father and I in [...]

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IDEA: Solar Powered Outlet Station

Posted on 07. Jan, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

Joe, 15, USA - Africa is a large continent with many villages that could benefit from electricity. This is why my invention is a solar powered outlet station. It has many standard, wall-type outlets.
This invention could help and could even enable other inventions to work better. For example, the One Laptop Per Child project is supposed [...]

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IDEA: Solar Food Carts

Posted on 30. Dec, 2008 by Charles Tsai.

Juan Carlo, 20, Philippines - In my country food is everywhere from restaurants, to fast food chains, to rolling stores and even rolling carts, that is because everyone loves to eat. Food carts are the best way to attract people’s attention and can be able to go to different places from urban streets to rural villages. The [...]

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Solar Lantern Project

Posted on 07. Nov, 2008 by Charles Tsai.

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