40th Jawaharlal Nehru National Science and Environment Exhibition for Children

(JNNSEEC) 2013
Theme: Science and Society
1) Title of the model :

WALL- E

Names of contributing students : 1. ABHILASH THULSIDASS (Male, Class 11)

2. SANTHOSH PRABHU (Male, Class12)
2) Names of guiding teacher(s) :

1. Mr. Siva Kumar (WET in Wood Work )

2. Mrs. Sini Mol (PGT in Physics)

3) School and complete postal address :

Demonstration Multipurpose School,
Regional Institute of Education (NCERT)
Manasagangothri, Mysore - 570006
Karnataka, INDIA
Ph.: 0821-2512570
Email: dmsmysore@gmail.com
4) Type of School :

Government

5) Affiliation of the School :

CBSE

6) Location of School :

Urban

7) Nature of Exhibit :

Innovative/Improvised Apparatus

8) Whether a dark room space is required :

No

9) Source of Inspiration :

Self-Inspired

INTRODUCTION

Over 1.5 billion people - 21% of the world's population - are still without access to
electricity worldwide, almost all of whom live in developing countries. This includes about
over 400 million in India.
About 2.8 billion people use solid fuelswood, charcoal, coal and dungfor cooking
and heating. Every year fumes and smoke from open cooking fires kill approximately 1.5
million people mostly women and children, from emphysema and other respiratory
diseases.

How much would it cost to give everyone access to electricity?

To deliver universal access by 2030, new capital investment of about $35-40 billion a
year is needed. This is in addition to worldwide annual investments of about $450 billion
just to sustain energy services at current level.

What happens when people dont have electricity?

Without access to energy service, the poor will be deprived of the most basic of human
rights and of economic opportunities to improve their standard of living. People cannot
access modern hospital services without electricity, or feel relief from sweltering heat.
Food cannot be refrigerated and businesses cannot function. Children cannot go to school
in rainforests where lighting is required even during the day. The list of deprivation goes
on.
With problems like this, there is a huge requirement for better sources of electricity.
We need cheap and nonpolluting sources of electricity. And that is what WALL-E does.
WALL-E is a source of light that uses gravity for producing electricity and hence
making it highly efficient.

How does WALL-E work?

The principle behind WALL-E is simple, Falling objects have a lot of potential energy.
The potential of falling objects has already been harnessed in dams and waterfalls. The
only difference between WALL-E and a turbine under the water fall is that the water
falls turbine needs water falling on it always and WALL-E doesnt.

What is WALL-E made of ?

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A dynamo
A plank of wood
Set of gears with Bearings
Sprocket
Weights
A Belt or Chain
LEDs

Working diagram of WALL-E:

Construction and Working

The WALL-E is hung on a wall. And it has a dynamo, attached to a set of gears, a wheel
and a LED Bulb.
The Working of the model is pretty simple. A Weight is hung along the wheel with the
help of a rope. So, when this is done, the weight starts to drop down due to the
Gravitational force making the wheel rotate and due to which the gears starts rotating.
And Again, due to this the dynamo starts to rotate producing electricity and hence,
lighting up the bulb.

How efficient is WALL-E?

The weights around WALL-Es neck are sure to drop down and when it drops down its
sure to produce electricity, making WALL-E highly efficient as the loss of energy due to
friction is really low. Well its convenience can be questioned though. Its not really
convenient to lift up a weight after every drop and wait there for the weight to go down
and then again lift it up. In this model only two gears are attached. We need to connect
more gears.
Connecting more gears will increase the force while reducing the speed of dropping of
the weight.
This model is just a prototype. Not a finished Model.
This model was made huge purposefully for the sake of displaying.