The Horse 2020/21

We eat a lot of gummy bears, so we wanted to find out how long you can make an LED lamp shine.

100g Gummybears = 1436kJ

1 pack of Gummybears = 500g

the energy consumption of an average LED lamp is about 60 Wh per hour.

(1 Wh = 3600 Ws (Wattsekunde) = 3600 Joule = 3,6 Kilojoule (kJ).

At home we heat with a geothermal probe. This type of heating is very new and extremely environmentally friendly. You also need less energy for this type of heating.

Here are a few more facts: 

Low heating costs
A heat pump consumes 3x less energy than an oil heating system and basically has the lowest operating costs compared to other heating systems.

Without CO2 emissions
The heat pump draws heat from the environment and releases it within your own four walls. 100% sustainable, 0% CO2 emissions.

100% Independent
No more need for heating oil or the chimney sweep. A heat pump in combination with solar power is 100% independent of external resources.

Low maintenance & durable
Heat pumps require hardly any maintenance and have an average service life of 20 years.

Hello everybody,

We are looking for someone who would do a collaboration with our project.
Our project is about changing the future. We want to see how our environment would change if everyone would only drive electric cars in the cities. We have already done several interviews, but we still want opinions that are not in the same country. We want to know what people think who live in a different country, where the circumstances are also different than in Switzerland.
We are also working on a survey to obtain several opinions.

We would be interested to hear other opinions.

Nils and Dylan

Sketch on paper from Nils and Dylan

Our experience so far:

Review and assessment of things done and still to do

We have a list of things we still have to do and things we have already done. And in this list we can look up everything and therefore we can't forget anything.

And when we do our posts on the Horse, we check them afterwards and if we are not done yet, we write it down.

And then assessment, I think that we have done our job not bad so far, these things we had to organize are perfect. For example the electric car. So if we had to assess that, I would give the collaboration a 4.75. And we are trying to invest more time for these things that we still have to do.

Problems encountered so far

We thought we had more problems than we have. This is a good sign, but we try to contact BMW and we don't get an answer. So Nils wrote to them and we did not get an answer yet.

The second is that we are trying to get in contact with foreign countries, but nobody wants to cooperate yet. But I still have 2 contacts that might work. But i have to Motivate them.

What could have been done differently

We could have gone to BMW in the company earlier and asked directly for an interview, then we would have received a clear and quick answer. And we wouldn't have to wait all the time for an answer. But I think that we will do the visit soon, because there is not enough time to wait.

We could have done our planning a little better. We're not bad at the moment, but it couldn't have been a bit more.

How likely is for our working hypothesis to be confirmed?

I think it is very likely because we think that in the future we will only drive cars with electric motors and we humans are slowly getting ready to do something for the environment, in my opinion. And the market for electric cars is huge right now.

Almost every car brand is trying to build an electric car that they can participate in this revolutionary invention.

And we, with this project, can certainly convince some friends or maybe strangers and explain them, that this is a good thing to do to help the environment.

Nils and Dylan

Interview questions e-cars

Not finished with all the questions, but is going to be finished.

(in progress..)

Checklist e-cars

It is not finished yet, but we adapt it again and again.

(in progress...)

We have broken our research into three parts (but we're still not finished with planning):

- We inform ourselves about electric cars
- We are looking for information about environmental change through e-cars
- We do interviews and organize an electric car

Our first questions are:

How far does an average electric car get?
- about 450 km.

How are they built and what are the advantages and disadvantages?
- research - Link to the answer

Are there different types of electric cars?

- Yes, electric hybrid, plug-in hybrid, possibly water cars.
- research - Link to the answer

 How did they get the idea?
- The idea came to the car companies through various protests from people about the environment.

Is there research by specialists?

- Answer not found yet.

The environment changes a lot because of the electric cars.
They are very environmentally friendly. They have 0 CO2 emissions and other pollutants. They are also very quiet and do not disturb anybody. The only disadvantage I have read so far is that they are too expensive and the charging stations are limited. I can understand this, because I think that you can't mass produce a new product when it is fresh on the market. You also have to see if you can find enough customers and if it is worth to continue production. But in my opinion the electric cars are very well received. You can see this especially with the Tesla car brand. I see at least 4-5 Teslas every day and that is a lot for a car with electric power.

We were lucky and have already organized an interview. We don't know yet how and when we will be able to do it, but it has been granted to us. We have also been given an electric car to look at and drive on Zurich with this car. I am very much looking forward to this day, because I am very interested to see the reaction of various people in Zurich. What also interests me is how it looks exactly in the car and under the hood. From these experiences we try to capture various things with videos.

- Link to TCS information

- 10 facts of e-cars

- History of e-cars

in progress....

Nils and Me(Dylan)

We searched the internet for various information about the environment in Zurich and about e-cars. We found very interesting things, which we want to inform ourselves about.

- For example how the environment is changing due to the invention of electric cars.
  Or how an electric car is built together.
  The electric car affects the environment.
  How many people already drive electric cars.
  Do electric cars also have disadvantages.

  etc.

Also we were able to organize a BMW I3 through connections and are allowed to drive this car and also have a closer look at it. Also we have already organized an interview, which we can do either online or face to face. But we will have to do some more planning, so that our project will be good.

in progress...

Project by Nils and Dylan

Our goal in this project is to find out how the environment would change if everyone would only drive around Zurich in electric cars. In order to find out, we want to come to an exact solution with our own research and various interviews.

We think that the future will be all electric cars and we will not drive gasoline cars anymore. We also think that there will be very crazy and fast electric cars with lots of cool gadgets. From our point of view the future will be much healthier than today. Because we have too much CO2 emissions from all gasoline cars. So more green could be brought back to earth and that would be much healthier for humans. Also we can imagine that the cars can still be driven by themselves, without the help of a steering wheel or something. We find it interesting and could imagine a lot of spaced out stuff.

In our project I expect that we can show a part of this big topic and answer our own questions. We also want to learn more about the electric car and gain experience ourselves. Even if we don't know everything and can't say what we can expect in the future, I think it is important to get some information about this topic and in my opinion it is our future. 

E- cars

in progress...

Plants - the lungs of the earth

Plants are the lungs of the earth and of people. Without them we could not live and one could not imagine life on earth.

What would interest me:

How can you get people to cut down no trees or only a few?
What happens if we have too few trees in the world?
Are there alternatives?
Is it possible to produce oxygen in other ways without anyone suffering any damage?
Are there already signs that we have too little green space?

(in process)