The Snow Problem
Problem: Snow covering the sidewalks on campus has to be cleaned off multiple times a day. This requires the university to spend the money on snow removal equipment as well as hourly wages for the workers to do the job.
Solution: Run heated coils under the sidewalks and roads. The heated coils will keep the pavement warm enough to melt snow as it falls, reducing the need for workers/snow removal equipment. As an added bonus, the energy required would come from a storage battery, in which the power would be generated from the spin bikes in Archibold gym.
The Charging Problem
Problem: Laptops are great, but with all of the computing power they use, they also burn through energy, requiring a charge. This is not a problem necessarily, if you have your charging cord with you and an outlet nearby.
Solution: Develop a technology comparable to Powermat Charging technology. So basically, every student's laptop (and eventually other devices) would have a built in charging receptor, and in all of the lecture halls/classrooms the desktops would act as the matching receptor. Therefore, students wouldn't need to carry around their cord, they would simply put down their laptop on the desk, and it would charge.
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