Today we presented our final posters.
It was very interesting to see what some of the other groups came up with.
Some of the other groups had thought through very good ideas while others didnt know what they were talking about.
Im not sure ill be able to remember all the different posters, but i will comment on the ones i do.
Alcohol lock - they had a very nice idea, not nz specific though. however they didnt develope their idea enough. it would be too easy to just bypass the lock. if it worked at all (the sensor is too far away from your breath, and if it had increased sensitivity it would pick up everyones breath.)
Long life laminates - not new and inovative. was there idea 'the laminate', because there is nothing new about it, or using the solar panels to power the boat (also not new). they also didnt think their idea though enough, was the gel coat blocking the light like they said? which wud just make the solar panels useless! or letting the light though and just protecting the panels from the weather. which would make more sense. the specifics were not fully described in their poster.
burnout paradise - i dont really know what they were trying to do, besides create a place to mess around and just have fun. it is in no way eco friendly.
water powered car - i think the only reason their final product had water in is is because they said they were gonna make a water powered car. if they remove the water and just power the motors straight from the solar panels they would loose much less energy. they really didnt seem to know what they were talking about... compressing water...
air powered car - this was not a bad idea, the only thing they might have trouble with is making enough space to store enough compressed air.
e-cat - this is probably one of the better ideas/posters. Im not sure their calculations are correct because only the first few minutes will be affected by their pre heating, once the engine is heated their product is no longer in use. not a bad idea though.
beanstalk - this is very much impractical. the technology for this will only be available in the next 10-20 years. they mostly know what they were talking about in their final presentation and they had a nice poster! im not sure exactaly why they specificaly have to aim the projectiles at the sun, if they just shoot it out into space it will keep going away from earth, its good enough for us.
crc (fibreglass recycling, our poster) - we didnt have many questions, this could mean 2 things; it way very easy to understand, or no one cared. i hope it was the former. aparently we spoke well answering our few questions. i know we didnt get totally confused by any of the questions which was good. we did try to keep our poster simple and to the point, i think it did work...
