Village Power - The Community Charging Station  REMIX 

Hello, we are students in the 2009/10 Industrial Design class at Kansas University in Lawrence Kansas USA. We are interested in applying socially directed design to make meaningful contributions to solving everyday problems faced by the majority of people in our world today. We are offering our collaboration as design students to contribute to this IDEA and assist in advancing its presentation or implementation in some way. Inspired by the problem statement posted we have ideas and questions we hope can be clarified by collaborative input from those of you who are experts in your field or have lived or observed the condition the IDEA intends to resolve. Here are some of the initial questions we would like some help with:

-What would be the longevity of battery life? (Also, how many volts? and would it be a danger?)

-How heavy are the proposed battery packs including a carrying case? and what would be the greatest distance traveled with the pack?

-We believe that it could be beneficial to place the solar panels and battery packs near other main points of interest in the community such as the school or main water source, would there be any serious repercussions to house them in these locations? what would the negative aspects be?

-What it the local monetary/exchange system? Does it have any unique requirements?