Our apartment is heated with heating oil. Statistics show that 40% of swiss households are heated with heating oil. But the tendency is decreasing. Many new buildings rely on renewable energy.
We live on a farm and that's why we have such an old heating system with wood.
As you can see on the picture, we heat with wood sticks.
We burn the wood sticks and this creates heat / energy. The heat is then distributed through the pipes to the various radiators in the whole house.
With a wood heater system you can use the raw material (wood) and the wood is usually also available regionally.
So my house is being heated by wood chips. This may sound strange at first, but its efficiency is really interesting.
What is the point of heating with wood chips?
We heat our house with resources from the region and the value creation process is being held in Switzerland. Wood is a price worthy resource and very stable with its price. The new modern heating systems cause a bit of particulate matter which stays way below the given limit. The electricity needed is below 1 % of the energy output. You will be heating CO2-neutral with this system.
Most systems are fully automatic and the cleaning is not very time-consuming. One big negative is the logistic behind it. You will need a storage room and a direct driveway towards it.
How does it work?
Our property is part of a commonhold ownership (Stockwerkeigentümergemeinschaft). Therefore the heating is organized for the whole community. The wood chips heating is not on commonhold ground (gemeinschaftlicher Grund) but the heat comes from a local entrepreneur. He has a giant construction that burns wood chips and leads the energy to households through the whole community. When we changed the heating system a few years ago, we had to connect to his separate pipe system. Unfortunately, I cannot show you the heating system with a picture because it is locked away.
Do you have a piece of clothing that you haven't worn for ages but you can't get rid of it? Wouldn't it be nice to make other people happy with it and help to reduce todays useless consumption? Look no further! Read the following article for more information.
Our idea
We want to revolutionize the process of clothes sharing. We thought that instead of giving your clothes to a secondhand store, you could put them online on a special website. On this website people can post their clothes and others can borrow them for a special occasion. So for example if you want a dress for a party, but you don't have the means to buy a new one, maybe on the website you spot a dress you really like. The website would have filters where you can filter the color, size, material, brand and lenghts of the clothes. After the event you can easily return the clothes to the owner. This way the clothes can be shared multiple times, won't rot in the closet and can bring joy to new people. More...
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Introduction
Every year, many young students have to pay around 1000 Swiss francs for their new school books in order to start the BMS. Therefore many trees are getting felled which is not good for our environment. Additionally the old books would just get burned which creates a lot of co2 emissions and wastes a large amount of energy. So wouldn't it be better if the students who finished the BMS could just give their books to the new students? This way we could safe a lot of trees and money at the same time.
My idea
This is the idea I have and which I believe could help a lot of students and the environment at the same time. More...
Hello everybody
The time has come... We have created an animated presentation on PowerPoint of our app idea regarding the topic "Sharing". We are proud to present you the app "SHARE-it". Download the presentation under the following link and try it out:
SHARE-it.pptx
If you like the app let us know. If you have any suggestions for improvement, be sure to write them in the comments. Please note that this is an animation and not yet an app from the AppStore or Google Playstore. Therefore not all functions are available yet, like uploading data or filling out forms.
Thank you very much for your feedback.
Best regards and stay healthy
Dharany and Lars