Initiative to retain, take advantage of and avoid waste of the elements that have already become the flag of our time, now resilient teaches cosmopolitan.
“In a gloomy early afternoon with a leaden atmosphere, well charged with viruses and diretes, a ray of shadow breaks the disenchantment.
The muse of inspiration enters the statistical approach to ride the booming trend in the price of electricity and transform the obsolescent aposite gag into a valuable decentralized energy factory. “
This is how Alí Mötz, its marketing executive, describes this fledgling startup anointed with the descriptive name of MascarillaSolar.com.
– Why Mr. Mötz this initiative?
– By the face … And I also mean the sides of this coin – the most veneer – that only had crosses. There are paths beyond hydrogel and hydrogen, let’s make our way while walking (Antonio Machado).
– What does the Solar Mask provide?
- – Cleaning the environment. Avoid wasteful attitudes by sowing an exception that acts as a counterpoint to the curiosity of throwing goods from which their utility has been extracted (send to m …). As of March 16 of this year, which is ending, an article stated that “Every minute 3 million masks are thrown away in the world“.
These can take up to 400 years to decompose if not disposed of properly, according to data collected by the LIBERA project.
- – Watts of photovoltaic generation: Other studies They estimate COVID-19 garbage at 129 billion masks per month (!). Taking into account the measurements of a standard mask, 17 x 10 cm., We have a photovoltaic capture area of 0.171 m2.
Thus, 129,000,000,000 * 0.171 = 22,059 million m2 exposing to light every month.
We have to bear in mind that the solar energy resources available on Earth are unevenly distributed and are subject to seasonal variations; thus in desert regions close to the tropics, the annual irradiation can reach a total value of 2300 kWh / (m2·year); in contrast to the typical average solar irradiation of central Europe, which is estimated at about 1,100 kWh / (m2 · year).Estimating an ideal solar irradiance of 1000 W / m2 daily, and taking into account that solar cells with graphene reach conversion efficiencies of 10% and allow their application as exterior paint, we could infer a daily theoretical production, for those 22,059,000,000 m2 surface area estimated at 2.43 Terawatts [TW]; Gigawatt more, Gigawatt less.
- – And above all, awareness on a model that today goes by the pompous name of “resilient”; but that throughout his life he has been “making a virtue of sin”, “drawing milk from a bucket”, and applied to the business world “seeing opportunities in problems”.
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– In your short career, what feedback do you receive from people? What do they ask and / or say?
We have been very receptive to the concerns that are expressed to us, offers of support of all kinds and suggestions.
Two user expositions have caught my attention, which I will briefly relate.
– An energy community in formation raises the possibility of adapting button batteries that can be recharged with energy from solar masks as “currency”.
The model could prove feasible. In fact, this physical coin would already have the intrinsic value of its charge in watts.
This coin, let’s call it “Maná”, of standard measurements and capacity -for example 3V.-, currently provides 3 Wh. but admitting these button batteries, valuing and receiving their charge in exchange for products, services and / or income from Manas in blockchain accounts.
To be sure, at least the throwing of such extremely dangerous batteries into the trash would be mitigated.
– In another case, they are proposing additional utilities to photovoltaics, such as the use of the heat received by the mask -about 36 ºC- and even the arrangement of membranes sensitive to the wind energy generated by our respiration, inhalation after exhalation … .
Another type of sun mask
Thank you very much Mr. Ali Mötz, we wish you every success and from here we encourage readers to make us follow the craziest positive initiatives that also renew the other half of the environment.
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