The science behind energy consumption is showing that we have limited resources, and the more we use these resources the more carbon we release in the air. At the rate we’re going we’re going to run out of coal, oil and other resources in thirty to forty years.

The forces included are electrical energy, kinetic energy, chemical energy, and thermal (heat) energy. And the energy that is getting wasted in the use process are chemical energy and thermal energy.

My rope pull machine would prevent the energy consumption situation from taking place at our new campus, Brown and Jolly. My system would need students to   operate, the students would have to pull on the rope for the system to work, as the rope moves through the tube it presses against the kinetic tiles on the inside of the tube, producing energy, then the energy transfers and moves to the generator attached to the back of the system, the remaining energy moves on to power the campus. (e.g. lights or charge chromebooks).

Aim: To not only power the Brown and Jolly campus to reduce energy consumption but also benefit the students health and wellbeing. 

Hypothesis: If we install my rope pull machine then students will use the system and power Brown and Jolly because my rope pull machine draws attention and challenges.

Firstly, the system will be pulled by the user.

Secondly, the system will capture kinetic energy when the rope is pulled continuously.

Thirdly, the system will transfer that kinetic energy to electrical energy and move it to a generator.

Finally, generator attached to the system will transfer that electrical energy into the campus (e.g. powering lights or charging chromebooks)

Kinetic objects are being used in modern  day scenarios and it's also a gym machine therefore giving extra motivation to use the system. If a student uses the rope pull for one minute and pulls the rope for fifteen kilometers then they would have produced thirty watts of energy.

The biggest engineering challenge in this rope pull system would be the rope wearing down and losing its efficiency.

This causes two issues with this happening.

1. The broken pieces of the rope could make a mess in and outside of the system causing the ground around the system to have these chunks of rope everywhere and it could also somewhat clog up the inside of the system preventing proper use.

2. When the rope is damaged it could also injure students because of the rope fibers, this process is rare but it is good to be careful.

    

My design would certainly be successful because not only does it have a positive effect on energy consumption and power our new campus, Brown and Jolly but it also has a positive impact on student health helping them with physical strength, endurance and stamina.