Wesley Walker is a junior at Groveport Madison HS and Fairfield Career Center in Ohio. He is actively involved with the 10th annual BDPA IT Showcase. He participated on the 2011 BDPA High School Computer Competition (HSCC) championship team trained by BDPA Columbus chapter. The team earned college scholarships with their 3rd place finish. His 2012 IT Showcase research focused on ‘Green Technology: Environment and Wires’. Green technology is the use of the alternative resources to get energy. Using these resources is a benefit for the general health of people, the environment of our planet, and it also saves money. The resources used are inexhaustible and have an unlimited amount as opposed to the natural gases we tend to use. Wesley earned the silver medal in the High School division of the BDPA IT Showcase with this research. He was presented to the National BDPA body as one of the ‘future faces of technology’ during the 2012 BDPA Awards Gala.

1. Green Technology: Environment and Wires
Created by:
Wesley Walker

2. Green Technology?
it’s technology that is considered
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environmentally friendly based on
its production process or supply
chain.

3. History of Green Technology
Did you know…
In fact, In 1854, Daniel Halladay designed
the first windmill with sails that self-
regulated itself to meet the direction of
the wind. In 1882, the first one was sold by
Aermotor.

4. History of Green Technology
Most people don’t know..
In the 1890’s, in Manhattan,
New York there were
electric taxi cabs that
transported people around
the city!

5. What Makes Green Technology, Green Technology?

6. Solar Energy!
What exactly is Solar Energy?
Solar energy is the energy produced from
the sun. It is captured from solar panels,
fans, and pumps that convert it into an
energy form that we can use!
Solar energy can solve problems
concerning pollution, our dependency
on fossil fuels, and our dependency on A great example of this would be a
nuclear power for electricity! solar powered laptop!

7. Recycling!
What exactly is recycling?
Recycling is the reusing of used
materials that turn them into
valuable resources .
It takes what people deem A great example is recycling
unusable, and turns them into IT Equipment!
new materials or components
for another.

8. When sunlight hits the cells, the
cells convert its light and heat into
energy. That energy is then turned
into electricity.

9. Recycling IT equipment is done by breaking down
the item. Some of these items are able to be
modified to fit into another item.
What isn’t used is often melted In fact, a computer from the 1990’s
down, grinded up, or shredded can, in more ways than one, be used
to help with the making of to make the modern computers we
another item. know today!

10. Solar Energy in Society
Since the amount of energy the
sun produces is unlimited, we will
never run out of it and the need
for exhaustible are becoming less
popular.

11. Recycling in Society
Why?
What’s so bad about electronic
Electronics are sprayed with
wastes in our landfills? chemicals that protect from
everyday use. When they reach
Electronics in landfills are becoming a landfills and remain there
growing problem. As a result, this issue exposed to the elements, these
has led to 17 states banning the waste of chemicals start to leak off into
electronics in landfills. the ground contaminating the
ground water .
In what way does recycling save money?
It saves money because reusing something to
make something else is cheaper than having
to manufacture it from the beginning starting
with its raw materials. These metals can
be quite expensive,
A good example of this so extracting these
is recycling circuit metals to put them
..that include gold, silver,
boards. These circuit into a new circuit
copper, tin, and lead.
boards are made up of board is very cost
many different metals.. efficient.

12. Barriers of solar energy
Although solar energy has its advantages, solar powered computers it does have its
barriers.
These barriers include: It isn’t a short term savings,
many people do not see the
1. Cost limitations long term savings effects.
Some of the batteries
2. Batteries aren’t efficient these solar computers use
are not efficient enough to
completely store all the
energy collected from the
sun
the solar panels these
3. Insufficient charge computers use aren’t sensitive
enough to capture enough
energy to charge the battery

13. Barriers of Recycling
Another barrier is the behavioral side of recycling.
People have lives to live and they tend to get caught
up in busy work, so they forget to establish a time
when to recycle and where to recycle. There are
some that do not know if they have to take apart the
computer not

14. How to Overcome Solar Barriers
Ways to combat the barriers of
solar powered computers are to
advance the solar technology
installed into them but making it
affordable!
Microloans are ways to reduce the cost of solar
energy by having a person pay a certain amount
a month for the technology.
Looking at solar energy as a service
instead of a product greatly reduces
the price on how much a person pays.

15. Overcoming the Barriers of Recycling
Overcoming the barriers of
recycling IT equipment include
finding alternatives to the many Since these
hazardous chemicals used in computers pose a
computers. large safety hazard
for the technicians
taking them apart
and the
environment,
limiting the amount
used would benefit
the how many are
recycled.
Also opening up more recycling facilities
near neighborhoods and letting people
know there is one nearby would reduce
how many get thrown away.

16. Currently underway there is work being done
to produce a solar cell the size of a stamp
A solar road is in the making from a dream
to a reality. Who needs gasoline powered
cars or electric cars when the vehicles get all
their power from the road!
This solar powered microchip will show the
technology field that extreme power savings
are indeed possible. Most long for an extra 10
to 20 minutes on their computers battery life
and with this new chip underway, that will
become a reality.
The saving of money and the reduction of
power will impact the world because this will
open new doors as what solar energy can do
to the current technology we have today.

17. The Future of Recycling
As our generations get younger and have a more open mind about the world, recycling
is expected to continue to grow. With an increase of consumer education by teaching
people about how recycling electronics are not only removing them from our landfills,
but it helps build new ones, and it helps with our pollution issue.
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