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Williams Santos, a student at Energy Institute High School, has come up with an innovative way to work around power outages.
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William Santos will graduate with the first class of Energy Institute High this spring, and he may do so with the prototype for a product that could one day be in your home.
His engineering teacher challenged the class to tackle an unsolved problem in the world, and William thought about how power outages affect homes and businesses in Houston. By using magnets and a turbine to harness the kinetic energy generated by air passing through every building’s air-conditioning unit, he thought, he could store energy for later use. Continue reading