Samoa Hostel Windbelt
Abstract
The Humboldt Bay Center for Sustainable Living, in cooperation with Danco Builders, have commissioned several projects to inform hostellers staying above the Samoa cookhouse (the future home of the Hostel at Samoa) about sustainability. One such project is The Buzzards' Windbelt™ system. The Team known as The Buzzards consists of Bob Xuesi, Ryan Dunne, Dustin Wiesner, and Dustin Revel. The Buzzards were given the task to charge USB devices using a Windbelt™ or an array of Windbelts™. The Windbelt™ was invented by Shawn Frayne to provide emergency lighting in third world countries. Shawn was intrigued by the principle of aero-elastic flutter and designed the Windbelt™ to convert the power generated by this principle to usable electricity. This project will inform hostellers about this technology, and demonstrate that it has real world application. The Windbelt™ is not the solution for all of our future energy challenges but it is one of the many technologies that together will someday allow us to live sustainable lives.
Date
Fall 2010
Department
School of Engineering
Concentration/Emphasis
ENGR 215 — Introduction to Design
Advisor/Professor
Lonny Grafman
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