| Solar's New Promise from Canada | 8 May 15 |
Source: Broadbent Institute
As Full got into engineering as a teen, she noticed the influence of the oil and gas industry. A high-school trip to the Arctic – a "visceral, physical" experience where she saw climate change harming polar bears first-hand – sealed her commitment. The result is the SunSaluter, a low-cost device that makes solar panels track the movement of the sun using water bottles and gravity. The SunSaluter increases energy output by 40 per cent while producing clean water. The device uses water-filled bottles that drip through a filter, becoming lighter, and causes the solar panel to adjust its angle, tracking the sun during the course of a day. The SunSaluter aims to increase energy and clean drinking water accessibility to off-grid communities, and thus mitigate environmental and health implications from traditional energy and water sources. The SunSaluter has won the Westly Prize, the Mashable-UN Foundation Startups for Social Good Challenge, second prize at the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge, and the grand prize at the Staples-Ashoka Youth Social Entrepreneurship Challenge.
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