Teeter-Totter for Sustainable Living

Reader Contribution by Jessie Fetterling
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Daniel Sheridan, 23, found a way to turn children’s energy into electrical power with just a teeter or totter of a board.  The student of Consumer Product Design at Coventry University in the UK invented a see-saw that generates electricity

The idea came to Sheridan while volunteering in Kenya at a school. Riding the see-saw should generate enough electricity to light a classroom for an evening after only five to 10 minutes of use.  While played on, it converts the action of the kids into electrical energy and is then transferred, using an underground cable, to a nearby classroom.

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