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It's starting to play with them as levers, to get conscious about them and to move to different places.
And it has all kinds of levers and ball-bearings and gadgets and gauges.
So let's talk about three more big levers that could really help on the consumption side.
I've described for you six big levers.
We need big action, because we get 90 percent of our energy from fossil fuels, and so you need to push hard on most, if not all, of these levers.
Most of these levers have popularity problems, and if there is a lever you don't like the use of, well, please do bear in mind that means you need even stronger effort on the other levers.
For what it's worth, Sir Isaac Newton, the greatest scientist who ever lived, he thought Jesus came to Earth specifically to operate the levers of gravity.
So as is the case with simple solutions, oftentimes the answer is right in front of your face, and for us it was levers.
We use levers all the time, in tools, doorknobs, bicycle parts.
Again, the key innovation of this technology is that when he wants to go fast, he just grabs the levers near the pivots and goes through a big angle every stroke, and as the going gets tougher, he just slides his hands up the levers, creates more torque, and kind of bench-presses his way out of trouble through the rough terrain.
It's the person that's sliding his hands up and down the levers, so the mechanism itself can be very simple and composed of bicycle parts you can get anywhere in the world.
Now, when you want to use the LFC indoors, all you have to do is pull the levers out of the drivetrain, stow them in the frame, and it converts into a normal wheelchair that you can use just like any other normal wheelchair, and we sized it like a normal wheelchair, so it's narrow enough to fit through a standard doorway, it's low enough to fit under a table, and it's small and maneuverable enough to fit in a bathroom and this is important so the user can get up close to a toilet, and be able to transfer off just like he could in a normal wheelchair.
So I'm an academic at MIT, and I'm a mechanical engineer, so I can do things like look at the type of terrain you want to travel on, and figure out how much resistance it should impose, look at the parts we have available and mix and match them to figure out what sort of gear trains we can use, and then look at the power and force you can get out of your upper body to analyze how fast you should be able to go in this chair as you put your arms up and down the levers.
It's also about 40 percent more efficient than a regular wheelchair, and because of the mechanical advantage you get from the levers, you can produce 50 percent higher torque and really muscle your way through the really, really rough terrain.
So he built this model, this crazy contraption with levers and wood, and here's his wheelbarrow, buckets, a big sledgehammer.
It looks like it's chance because we rarely see all the levers that come into play to make people lucky.
But I think we've just got huge scope, and we don't pull those levers that allow us to reduce the energy demand, which is a shame.
You avoid the guards and security cameras, infiltrate the sixth floor from the top, find the hidden panel, pull some conspicuous levers, and send the death ray crashing into the ocean.
Archimedes was an ancient Greek thinker, and he taught us that if we lean on the right levers, we can move the world.
In the fight against extreme poverty, I believe there are three powerful levers that we can lean on.
This talk is all about those levers, and why they make poverty a winnable fight in our lifetimes.
Global poverty has powerful levers.
Let's engage our collective passion for problem-solving and figure out what those levers are.
So these are the three levers, and the most powerful lever is simply delivery.
I think if you give them the right levers, they can move mountains.
Someone came up with the brilliant idea of triggering sounds by pressing small levers with our fingers, inventing the first musical keyboard.
It was used on knobs and levers to tell them what to do.
The robot has two levers and one big button.
When it appears, you just switch the position of one of the levers from A to B or vice versa, and then the robot will note your dimensional position and teleport to another of the eleven dimensions at random.
Answer in 3 Answer in 2 Answer in 1 It would be nice if you could set different combinations of the levers to indicate who’s already been visited by the robot.
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