The Horse 2019/20

Technology & Environment

Part 2 - Businessplan

Hello everyone

Down below you can find our businessplan for our project "Accessoires-Sharing".

1 Executive Summary

Selina Lehmann and I, Julia Hartmann recently came up with the idea of ​​starting our own company. We chose a GmbH because we can be very flexible. With our company we want to lend people for weddings, confirmations, celebrations and other occasions, jewelry in a qualitative and affordable way. The borrowed jewelry can also be bought after the event. So you don't always have to go to the store and buy it directly, you can also borrow it for a short time and bring it back. Of course, we will clean them after using it so that they look like new again.

2 Founder Profile

Selina Lehmann

Ms. Lehmann is completing her commercial apprenticeship this year. Now she wants to reorient herself and start something completely new. Selina Lehmann is already very familiar with jewelry and knows how to make it.

Julia Hartmann

Ms. Hartmann is also completing her commercial apprenticeship this year and would like to reorient. Since Ms. Lehmann had the same idea, we decided to found SLJH-Accessories GmbH together. Julia Hartmann also has a very good knowledge of jewelry.

3 Business Idea

Our company orders certain products from well-known suppliers, such as Swarovski, Rolex, etc., but we also provide some ourselves. The products can also be made to customer requirements. We want to guarantee high quality and quantity by working only with real silver and gold. The loan should be free, although you can also buy the product cheaply after use. Our products can be picked up directly from our warehouse or ordered online. Our added value is that we can promote sharing. So you don't have to spend money on expensive jewelry for a wedding day. In addition, everyone has the opportunity to buy the product later. Online shipping is also free.

4 Organization and Legal Form

4.1 Organization

 

4.2 Employees

Selina Lehmann and Julia Hartmann lead the company SLJH-Accessories GmbH. One person is always employed in other departments. All employees have attended a higher technical school and are very familiar with their function.

4.3 Legal Form

Due to flexibility, we have chosen the legal form company with limited liability.

5 Target Group

Our target group includes private customers of all ages and gender is irrelevant.

 

Best wishes,

Selina and Julia

 

Book sharing website

Hello everybody

Another way to share books besides the tree library is the website book crossing (https://www.bookcrossing.com/about). Though the website you can exchange books and you can even get in touch with persons who already read the book. In our opinion it’s a great and modern way to reuse books. The book crossing website is available in 132 countries and there are 13'276'191 book which are crossing the world. Book sharing websites are very common in countries like the USA or Germany. All you have to do is to create an account on bookcrossing.com and you’re able to share your books.

Best regards, 

Deniz and Maria

 

Step 4 - Part 1

Hello everyone

Finally we did our calculation, the buissnessplan and the organigramm. We will publish these three things in two parts. 

Everything is to be considered as if we were founding a company. Of course everything is only fictitious.

The calculation was not very easy because it is very difficult to find the exact number of grams of material in a necklace. Because of this, we did the whole thing in a text.

In any case, we assume that a neckless is made of 18ct, which corresponds to 3.6 g yellow gold. Carat describes the density of fine gold. In the picture below we describe how the process of winning gold might look like. If we now assume that these chains are sold ten times, the effort is logically ten times greater. On the picture you can also see a truck that transports rock. From one ton of rock 3-5 grams of gold can be processed. Let us assume that a ring with 3 grams of gold needs one ton. For 10 rings, it takes six tons of rock. Suppose a truck can transport one ton and has to go this way six times. By driving less, you can avoid producing less CO2, which is better for the environment.

 

Picture Source: https://philoro.de/expertenwissen/von-der-goldmine-zum-goldbarren

 If you want to know how gold and silver are made, take a look at the link down below.

production of gold and silver

 

Julia and Selina

 

 

Step 4 - shape and create (and our goal)

We're putting everything together (research and own texts) to one text. Now we'er almost ready to publish. Our goal for tomorrow is to be ready to publish the project or even to publish it. But we'll see tomorrow. Another goal for tomorrow is to find a cover picture for the post.

 

We're very happy to see how our post is getting created step by step and how far we are now. Now we're getting closer to the end of our project.

Best regards,

Deniz and Maria

The comparison between a book and an iPad - step 4 Shape and Create

Hello everbody,

we asked ourselves whether a book or an iPad (eBook) is actually more environmentally friendly. We have created a small chart to compare this.

An iPad needs about 15 KG of minerals to produce while a book needs 0.3 KG. A book also needs a large amount of sand and gravel and 9 litres of water. For the battery and circuit board of the iPad 300 litres of water are needed. As far as energy is concerned, the iPad needs more, namely 100 kilowatt hours and the book only 2 kilowatt hours. Also the CO2 emission of the iPad is higher (33 KG). With the book the emission is 100 times smaller!

 If transport and the entire period of use of the book is involved, the iPad can show its advantages. A book can be read for 2-3 weeks and an iPad can be owned for longer. If you order a book from Amazon, it causes environmental pollution that is about half as big as the pollution that was used to produce the book. Emissions for buying a book in the online shop are close to zero. If you take into account the listed raw materials, i.e. water, energy and minerals, an iPad is worthwhile from 40 to 50 books read. If you take an average of one book read per month, it takes a whole 4 years until the iPad is ecologically profitable (the older the iPad is, the longer the time span).

We hope we can find more interesting information.

This is the source we used.

Do you prefer a book or an iPad to read?

Thanks and best regards,

Maria & Deniz

Update: Sharing summaries

Hello everyone

Recently we had a little trouble with our website because our computer crashed and all data was lost. So we had to rebuild our website and create a new database. But now we're far with the page. Below you can find a screen-video of our website. 

We hope you like it! If you have any suggestions for improvement, please feel free to leave a comment.

Screen-video of Website:

Curiosity.mp4 (3.41 mb)

 

Authors M17a

Lisa & Noémie

Team Energy Sharing, results from the 03.04.2020, caluclations and report

Hello together

Here you cand find our results from the 03.04.2020:

Um die Kosten von Solarenergie besser analysieren zu können, muss eine Zeitspanne von mindestens 10 Jahren berechnet werden. Die Anschaffungskosten der Solarzellen, für unser Quartier, belaufen sich ca. auf CHF 231'111.10 (siehe Berechnungen in unserem letzten Post). In den Jahren darauf hat man maximal noch Servicekosten, falls etwas beschädigt wurde. Die Kosten für nicht erneuerbare Energien, in unsrem Quartier, belaufen sich nach unsren Berechnungen vom letzten Post auf CHF 22'880 im Jahr. Nicht enthalten sind auch hier Service- und Unterhaltkosten von Heizungen etc.
Nach 10 Jahren wurden also CHF 228'000 für nicht erneuerbare Energien ausgegeben. Somit könnte man ab dem 11. Jahr mit Solarzellen Kosten sparen.

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carsharing app

Hello

This is our great idea about our car sharing app. The name off the app is "sharing". It's a app, where you can lend a car for a few hours or days. It's very simple. Firs of all, you have to register yourself and you have to deposit a credit card or your pay pal account. After that, the app asks you if you want kind of vehicle you want to drive. Lets say a family car or a smart for example. It's important that you activate your gps so that the car near your is shown. With one click, you can reserve the vehicle for 3 hours. At each "sharing" station is a safe with the key. You get the code for the safe on your app. The Car tracks and counts the km you drove and it will automatically will be put on your bill. You can return the car anytime to a "sharing" station. It is important, that you charge the car after using it a lot and as already said, when your finished, you have the plug in the car at the station, because it's a electric car. Your keys have gps on, so don't forget to put it back in the safe.

 

Team Energy Sharing, results from the 27.03.2020, calculations

Hello Together

Here can you find our results and calculations from the 27.03.2020:

Für unsere Berechnungen haben wir uns ein virtuelles Quartier ausgedacht. Es handelt sich dabei um 20 Einfamilienhäuser mit durchschnittlich 3 Personen pro Haushalt. Für dieses Quartier werden wir im nächsten Schritt auch noch eine Skizze/Quartierplan machen. Mit den Ergebnissen unseres letzten Posts gerechnet bedeutet das, dass dieses Quartier ca. 104'000 kWh Energie im Jahr verbraucht (Stromverbrauch Einfamilienhaus)

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App "SHARE-it"

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