GK
INVENTIONS
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Question
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At the age of 15, after hearing of a friend in the Philippines was failing her classes because her home didn’thave light to study by, Makosinski invented a fashlight that gets its energy from the ____ to power a flashlight.
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sun
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bicycle pedals
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human hand
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organic plants
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Hollow Flashlight harvests energy from the human hand to power itself. It does not used battery to produce kinetic energy. Hollow Flashlight is composed of four Peltier tiles mounted on a hollow aluminum tube and enclosed with a larger PVC pipe that has an opening to allow ambient air to cool the tube.
Detailed explanation-2: -Basically, the flashlight is a series if LED bulbs that rely on the thermoelectric effect to generate electricity when held. This is done through a series of devices that are known as Peltier tiles, which produce electricity when heated on one side and cooled on the other.
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