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To explore the breadth of issues that confront our society in its need for clean, affordable and reliable energy, students on this team partnered with faculty on year-long projects focusing on identifying, designing and prototyping new energy technologies, systems or approaches. Subteams addressed the tradeoffs among technological design choices, environmental impacts, economic viability and other issues related to use. Their goal was to produce a useful prototype and evaluate its environmental benefits and viability.
This year, students created a low-budget prototype anaerobic digester to generate methane from Duke’s food waste, an energy information tool to increase transparency in Duke's energy usage (below), and a piezoelectric energy prototype.
Energy Informational Tool
Poster by Vincent Baker, Joshua Fairman, Thomas Livesay, Brooke Sanders and Thuan Tran
The Energy Information Tool is an accessible online tool that displays energy usage data of Duke buildings. The tool aims to increase transparency in Duke's energy usage so that all stakeholders can adequately find solutions to cut down on energy wastes on campus.
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