M. Schlauch's Blog about Some Things

I wrote the script for my speech throughout this week and began filming for my TEDTalk today. I started my recording with a dramatic opening about the environmental crisis leftover from the industrial expansion of humans, which transitions into the reasoning for my project, which is to make my Flywheel Energy Storage device more efficient to combat the battery in a desperate attempt to save the world that we live in. The majority of my speech is explanations, since my project has a lot of depth into college-level electrical engineering, and so a very time consuming part of writing it was to make sure the language I used was not overly complicated for a non-scientific individual would understand. I also go into a brief but informative description of my results about the different core designs, as well as how I created and improved on my design. This will also be including the designs that I have planned for the future on how I plan to make the zero-gravity to work, as I would like to us...

I could not get my zero-gravity mechanism to work, since there was a design flaw in my original design that prevented my new mechanism to work. On my old design, the flywheel actually rotates further down that what I anticipated due to the heavy weight attached to the flywheel, and so this extra weight was not accounted for when I was creating my design. My new structures ended up being too far away from the flywheel to make the magnetic fields come in contact with the magnetic fields of the flywheel. However, with this new knowledge, I did come up with an idea of how, in the future (with stronger, industrial magnets and stronger 3D printing material), I could get the design to work, with a structure that surrounds the flywheel rather than only having a set of magnets on the top and bottom. The reason I mentioned the 3D printing material is that one of my structures actually broke while I was assembling the magnets into it, and I had to use glue to repair the design so I could test it....