{"id":144,"date":"2016-04-28T18:54:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T18:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/?p=144"},"modified":"2020-09-06T19:39:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T23:39:39","slug":"art-of-sustainable-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/2016\/04\/28\/art-of-sustainable-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Art of Sustainable Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A hand crank power generator has been installed on the second floor of Richardson Hall. The generator is attached to a battery pack which will\/can be eventually used to power up computers and other appliances used by students and others. This is a very small contribution to conservation and sustainability but nevertheless, it counts and makes for a great teaching moment.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anyone in the Math Department is encouraged to come over and put in some <em>crank time<\/em>\u00a0towards charging the battery which requires more than 24 hours for complete charging. A sign up sheet has been placed near the instrument for students to log their names, crank time and instructors name. At least 10 minutes of use at a time is recommended, but more time is encouraged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The &#8220;Art of Sustainable Science&#8221; project was conducted by Mika Munakata and Ashwin Vaidya a few years ago, and was funded by the American Physical Society.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mathematical Sciences Department contributes to the ongoing earth day events on campus with a hand crank and a bicycle generator!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}