The AquaElectron | A sustainable portable charger powered by water.

Project Team:

Grace Louey , Amy Lightower , Katrina Koop

Status:

New Idea

Social Purpose

Climate Action

What is the problem you found?

There was no clean energy power solution to be used on the go.

What is your opportunity?

How might we create a clean-energy power solution

Who is your audience?

Those who go off-the-grid camping know how annoying it can be when you're in the middle of a call and you're phone runs out or you have an important assignment due Monday and your computer shuts down. And how many times have you been at school, a restaurant, or the park with your phone and portable charger at no charge? AquaElectron aims to help off-the-grid campers and those with devices that need to be charged often by offering them a cheap, easy charger for on-the-go charging that doesn't even need to be charged beforehand.

What Is Your Solution?

At Triple Threat, we use our individual skills to work together to find a creative solution to one of the world's most prominent problems- climate change.  Each year, millions of people and animals suffer and die because of the disastrous effects of climate change. When greenhouses gases such as C02 are emitted into the atmosphere, the air becomes denser and hotter, which leads to many problems such as more natural disasters,  water levels rising, and shrinking glaciers.  The largest cause of emissions into the atmosphere is for power and electricity. If a cheap, environmentally friendly solution that produces lots of power was developed, billions fewer greenhouse gases would be emitted, solving all these problems and more. At Triple Threat, we have invented a new power solution that is cheap, efficient, and easy to use.  By using the process of a fuel cell design we are able to generate double the watts a typical house output has. To start charging you insert sodium silicide and water. The Water gets split into hydrogen and oxygen, the hydrogen electrons go through the fuel cell, while the oxygen gets released harmlessly into the atmosphere. The sodium silicide makes the chemical reaction of splitting the water into hydrogen and oxygen possible.

Support Required

Funding

To support this idea it's crucial we acquire funding. This is essential as, in order to develop a product, we must first have the resources to experiment in a reliable and safe way. We will require sodium silicide, algae plastic from 'bloom', insulators, and tester phones to achieve this. Whilst our main need may be funding, we also require advice, connections, and development to support the development of our product. 

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Challenge

Climate Action Youth Design Challenge

Location

New South Wales

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