Students enjoy using their fully awake creative intelligence to make Maharishi University of Management a leader in sustainable living.
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by Maharishi University of Management
19 June 2008
Built by students of Maharishi University of Management Sustainable Living Program, the silent wind generator, capable of producing up to 2,000 watts of power, is located on a 30-foot tower. Within the next year the generator and solar panels will provide all of the power for the Sustainable Living department.
Students in the Sustainable Living Program also completed construction of a biodiesel processor in a recent course taught by Lonnie Gamble. They are now hoping to use the fuel it makes to power University vehicles and to eventually set up a co-op to make fuel available to the community.
The processor is capable of producing up to 500 gallons of fuel a day. It uses discarded vegetable oil from restaurants as well as sesame oil and turns it into fuel via a chemical process.
“Our goal is to be more sustainable,” said Troy Van Beek, who helped build the processor. “Biodiesel fuel is cleaner and cheaper, and we’re not pumping natural resources out of the ground to make it.”
The fuel can be used by any vehicle with a diesel motor. The next step is to organize a core group of Sustainable Living students and other students who will focus on implementing the project. This core group will also focus on implementing wind and solar projects begun by the students.
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