Climate Clock 2.0 Mirror

The Project

“Climate Clock 2.0 Mirror” is a smart mirror and newly customized version of the “Climate Clock”. In addition to the latest information from the “Climate Clock”, energy-related carbon emissions information in the UK and the US from reliable sources are automatically retrieved, calculated and displayed in a mirror to help people including ourselves understand the urgency of climate change and how carbon emissions change in our countries and state where we live. Specifically, time left to limit global warming to 1.5°C and world’s energy from renewables (%) from “Climate Clock”, the UK annual carbon emissions from energy supply and the increase rate from the previous year and similar the US and Massachusetts state’s information are displayed. The mirror is equipped with a motion sensor so that we can save unnecessary energy consumption to display when no one is around the mirror.

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Team Comments

Climate change is becoming more serious for people all over the world. We developed this device: to think about global warming as my own matter, to enlighten others on this matter by installing it in public places and to prompt our actions that we can do in our daily life such as energy use saving.

It was difficult to select the most meaningful data for us and to find reliable data sources. We searched sources and available data and decided to focus on energy-related carbon emissions data because it is said that carbon emissions from energy use are a major contributor to global warming.

We would add a function that automatically calculates and displays our carbon emissions from monthly home gas and electricity usage given specific carbon emissions coefficients based on electricity generation sources so that we can think more as our own matter and encourage our actions further.