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The Green Dell
May 3, 2013
1 Vote
Status: Acknowledged
A website where home gardners and small farmers can put up their crops that they are planning, planting, growing, harvesting - and see, by "locality," what others are planting in their neighbourhood. The idea is that they can then perhaps change their minds and plant something no-one else is growing, leading to greater diversity of foods available in their region. People can then either opt to buy these direct from the grower, or trade them for something that they grow themselves, and the idea is to make every region able to grow good local food. The "locality" should be an area that makes sense for local food, i.e. not much more than 20 - 50 miles, to encourage people to use less fuel transporting food around.People should be able to "pledge" either a certain percentage of a planted or harvested crop, or pledge some labour on the grower's property (sort of like community gardening) or tools and materials (wire netting, compost scraps, etc) in exchange for some of the crop. Additionally, users should be encouraged to share their experiences of what grows well locally, what needs special techniques, and so forth. Within a few years, a site such as this should be able to even out local food production, provide detailed, locality-based advice on what can be grown and how to grow it, and (if advertisers are chosen carefully and with relevance, i.e. home handyman, gardening, nursery, and so forth) be able to produce an income by presenting locally-targeted advertising to users, who can use these ads to find the best local services and materials.It would be a crowdsourced agricultural and GIS dataBASE, as well. This can be stripped of identifying data, and sold/donated to research foundations and government departments to provide detailed knowledge of soil and weather and local plants etc on an ongoing basis. The information provided would give valuable knowledge to such organisations about the health of the ecosphere and the weather systems.On the purely humane side, it would allow a much wider audience to have access to local food, thus strengthening local economies and reducing food miles and handling costs. I think an idea such as this is one of theose things where a large company has nothing to lose by devoting a few resources to it and advertising / publicising it, and then if the site doesn't take off, it's a relatively small loss. If it does take of though, it would establish the green credentials of the company and give them some very good publicity!
Categories: Education, Environment, IdeaStorm,
environmental solution to used electronic equipment
May 1, 2013
2 Votes
Status: Acknowledged
I always have a big question mark that Dell has been collecting tons of used electronic equipment but how these equipment are being treated or they go straight to secured landfills??
Categories: Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Environment,
Cave Mall
Apr 25, 2013
1 Vote
Status: Acknowledged
I just thought of a mall in a cave. tunnels, fish tanks cable cars etc. that will be a best tourist attraction.
Categories: Environment, Retail,
un exhaustable power source
Apr 19, 2013
1 Vote
Status: Acknowledged
we can run electriccity powerd auto mobile continuely with out a power scarcitywe can extract solar power by itroducing solar pannels at every side of a tele phone towerand we can generate that energy trough wireless electric signals so automoblie runs contenuesly as the {tower} coverage is possible we are not using even 10% of solar energy so ithink this is the best idea for eco friendly transportation and a good news for power and commercial companies
Categories: Environment, IdeaStorm,
Expense Reduction and Going Green
Mar 23, 2013
2 Votes
Status: Acknowledged
I have always paid my DFS account by pre-authorized cheque, and I presume that this is standard payment method at Dell. That being the case, why do you send me/us an empty envelope with every monthly statement of the DFS account? The envelopes are not only a waste of paper, but also an unecessary expense. How many envelopes do you send out each month that go unused? Why do you send a monthly statement? Surely Dell can do all of this online. The cost of paper, postage, etc., etc must be considerable. Dell has got to cut costs! You can stop the waste of money, paper, postage, etc., by simply stoping sending envelopes that are not used, and by DFS putting all accounts on line.Frank
Categories: Environment, Service and Support,
Space bound garbage
Mar 6, 2013
1 Vote
Status: Acknowledged
I once saw on a documentary the idea of a low-orbit space station that is tethered to the ground. Orbiting in sync with the planet, this tether would eliminate the need for rocket fuel propelled vessels to carry objects into orbit. I purpose that if this space station is possible, than why couldn't we send all of our waste into space. This could have a signifigant impact on the enviroment here on Earth.
Categories: Environment, Service and Support,
DLP Phlatlight led light engine in mainstream projectors
Feb 22, 2013
1 Vote
Status: Acknowledged
The color gromet as well as the energysmart rating is much superior than traditional configurations. I have a xxx brand dlp tv with phlatlght tech and there is no compairison of color saturation compaired with my dell 1510x projector. I think the tv uses 118 watts for a 56' tv. The smaller pico projectors use a dlp white led engine and a colorwheel not a red, green, blue led.
Categories: Environment, IdeaStorm,
Deep ocean gas creation to move up ballons with power generating turbines behind?
Feb 14, 2013
1 Vote
Status: Acknowledged
Excuse me, this is just a pre-sketch. However, I'm not a specialist and I dont have time for gaining necessary knowledge.Maybe you can tell me if it makes sense somehow.It's very simple general idea:- use some chemical process to create gas (o2?, h2?) under ocean, so that it could accumulate despite the pressure- make it filing some form of ballon- attach appropriate turbines and energy transmision/storage systems (eg. the ballon on cable?)- release the ballon when it is ready to be pushed with pressure- (turbines could have rotation comaprable/better then average wind-turbines?)- improve every detail to make it cheap and safe and large-scaleEnjoy energy :)
Categories: Environment,
Giving away old computers
Jan 31, 2013
2 Votes
Status: Acknowledged
I recently put up an old Dell 3000 on my local freecycle group. An old Pentium IV that I loaded with Linux. I had over 20 requests for it in just a couple of hours. Dell, do you have any more 3000s or other old machines collecting dust anywhere? I have a list of people who would be more than happy to take them off your hands.
Categories: Desktops and Laptops, Environment, Service and Support,
Rebate on Printer Cartridges
Jan 29, 2013
1 Vote
Status: Acknowledged
I applaud the fact that dell offers a recycling program for their printer cartridges however, why should we send them back to Dell when we can get a $3.00 rebate per cartridge at Staples Office Supply. The price of the carteidges from Dell are the same price at Staples so I see no incentive. I use a fair amout of cartridges for my business and am very satisfied with my V-515W printer but if Dell wants my carteidges they will have to match Staples. So Dell, get with the program and you'll have my business.
Categories: Environment, Printers and Ink, Retail,