A wholesome thread on Simple Ideas can have big Impacts.🧵
1. Great idea 💡
2. In South Korea, the solar panels in the middle of the highway have a bicycle path underneath..cyclists are protected from the sun, isolated from traffic, and the country can produce clean energy.
3. This is how you can generate electricity from oncoming traffic, absolutely genius!
4. Richard Browning's jet suit was tested as an emergency response vehicle for paramedics in mountainous areas, where helicopter support would not be safe or practical.
5. Australian city Kwinana uses drainage nets to stop waste from polluting waterways
6. Japan’s simple, elegant and super complex underground bicycle parking system
7. Pench tiger reserve, India 16 km long elevated highway solely dedicated to wildlife movement underneath.
8. In Australia, your tax return document shows where your tax money was spent.
9. Intricate traffic organization in Chengdu, China.
10. Japanese toilets often have a sink on top, allowing you to wash hands with water that's reused for flushing, saving millions of liters of water yearly.
11. Liquid trees, designed for space-constrained cities, contain 600 liters of water and use microalgae to bind CO₂ and produce oxygen through photosynthesis.
12. This automatic cleaning system makes sure that the public toilet is clean, dry and fresh for every new visitor.
13. Emergency helmets for earthquake in Japan..
its design to protect the spine and upper vital organs. It will cover your shoulders and most of your back.
14. Zippers on city roads. It is said that it has increased the traffic efficiency by 15%.
15. Supermarkets in Vietnam and Thailand are replacing plastic packaging with banana leaves 🍌♻
16. In South Korea, floor sprinklers pump rain water to clean the roads, prevent the spread of dust and reduce the heat.
The clean road system reduced the dust rates by 13% and the average road surface temperatures in summer to 19°C
17. Banana leaves as a sustainable alternative to plastic bags.
18. Technology wise Japan is TOP. Making Electricity from your footsteps
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