Intel Awards Designers of Pedal Laptop Powering

Intel Corporation today awarded the winners of the Intel University Competition On Renewable Energy (CORE), which challenged European universities to design a device capable of powering laptops by using renewable, sustainable energy sources. The winner is the Spanish team (Polytechnic of Madrid), which designed a solution based on a pedal machine powered by human energy.

“The cycling action produces energy which is turned into the electricity necessary to power the laptop by a power electronics converter. The solution was chosen as it demonstrates the team’s systematic approach to deal with all aspects of the challenge – from its ease of implementation to the innovative quality of its electronic components – with special features to allow for a realistic usage model,” Intel says.

The Polytechnic of Milan (Italy) and Delft’s University of Technology (Netherlands), will also be recognized on the respective merits of their solutions accordingly. The Italian team utilized a hydrogen fuel cell to power a laptop, which is particularly noteworthy by its duration and for being environmentally clean, while the Delft University’s design consists mainly of a rocking-motion pedal mechanism.

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