Boulerice, M. B., & Baginski, M. C., & Gomes, D., & Nikolov, A. S., & Maheswaran, B. (2022, April), Energy of Revolving Doors  Paper presented at ASEE-NE 2022, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Massachusetts. 10.18260/1-2--42170

\bibitem{asee_peer_42170}
  Boulerice, M. B., \& Baginski, M. C., \& Gomes, D., \& Nikolov, A. S., \& Maheswaran, B. (2022, April), \emph{Energy of Revolving Doors}
  Paper presented at ASEE-NE 2022, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Massachusetts.
  10.18260/1-2--42170

Maxwell B Boulerice, Megan Claire Baginski, Dominic Gomes, Alexander S Nikolov, and Bala Maheswaran.  "Energy of Revolving Doors".  ASEE-NE 2022, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, 2022, April.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/42170 Internet.  14 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_42170}
  Maxwell B Boulerice, Megan Claire Baginski, Dominic Gomes, Alexander S Nikolov, and Bala Maheswaran.
  "Energy of Revolving Doors".
  \emph{ASEE-NE 2022, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, 2022, April}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/42170 Internet.  14 Dec, 2024

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AB  - The world’s rampant use of non-renewable energy and the resulting carbon emissions are causing dramatic changes to the global climate. Currently, fossil fuels supply roughly 80% of the world's energy. As we continue to burn more and more fuel, our climate crisis continues to progress and approach a critical point at which reversal is no longer possible. Our team aimed to create a new method of producing electrical energy that does not result in the release of greenhouse gases. To do this, we focused on opportunities where there was man made kinetic energy that was going unharnessed. The solution we came to is a revolving door that uses the rotation of the door panels to power a motor generator and produces clean and sustainable electrical energy. Our prototype is a significantly scaled down model of the revolving door, however, a smaller model will still be able to act as proof of concept, making it possible to estimate the amount of energy produced by a full-sized product.

We are aware that there are many kinds of renewable energy such as wind and solar that work well on a large scale. Our product is designed to work as a small addition to these larger power sources, not as a replacement to them. A small change in how energy is produced–if, for example, our product could power a hallway of lights in a building–when implemented widely in many buildings, can make a significant difference in non-renewable energy consumption. While it is obvious that harnessing the energy of the world's revolving doors would not be capable of acting as a replacement for fossil fuels, the idea is that there are a multitude of commonplace devices in our societies that allow the rotational energy generated as a byproduct of their operation to go to waste, and that if energy can be harnessed from this rotating system, energy can be harnessed from any system that involves rotation.

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AU  - Bala Maheswaran
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