great green challenge
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Blake Lapthorn and James Cowper held a 'great green challenge'
on Wednesday 21 April at Blake Lapthorn's Oxford office. The
challenge was to build a machine that would lift an egg by one
meter, and hold it there for 10 seconds. Teams of four and
five had four forms of renewable energy to help them perform the
task (biomass, water, wind and solar) together with the
following equipment.
- a set of K'Nex
- one solar panel and gearing kit
- 20 sheets of A4 paper
- 4m of string
- rubber bands
- a desk fan
- desk lamp
- water bottle with water available to fill it
- masking take
Congratulations to the winning team: Philip
Collins from Blake Lapthorn; Edward Humphrey-Evans
from Humphrey- Evans Intellectual Property Services
Ltd; Katie Kann from Savills; Mick Lee from Savills and
Claire Spencer from James Cowper.
This event was part of the
Clean and Green Festival. For more information
on the festival please click the image below.
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