{"id":442,"date":"2009-12-04T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2014-10-10T21:24:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T02:24:42","slug":"energy-efficient-escalator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/energy-efficient-escalator\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Efficient Escalator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-443\" title=\"escalator\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/escalator.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"213\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>My soon-to-be seven-year old son, Chase, has always been fascinated with the escalators<\/strong> at the downtown Wells Fargo Bank Building (what kid isn&#8217;t?). But he&#8217;s concerned about the fact that they are <em>always<\/em> running \u2013 &#8220;wasting power&#8221;, as he puts it \u2013 even when people aren&#8217;t using them. His invention: a motion-activated escalator that would power up or down when someone walks by the sensors at either end. There would obviously be a point in the day when it would run continuously, but think of the &#8220;down-times&#8221; when no one is using it. I thought it was a pretty clever idea. I&#8217;m no mechanical engineer, but I&#8217;m guessing there would likely be some logistic wrinkles to iron out. I figure if they can do it with lights, it wouldn&#8217;t be so far off for escalators. Now if we could just get our budding young conservative to take shorter showers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My soon-to-be seven-year old son, Chase, has always been fascinated with the escalators at the downtown Wells Fargo Bank Building (what kid isn&#8217;t?). But he&#8217;s concerned about the fact that they are always running \u2013 &#8220;wasting power&#8221;, as he puts it \u2013 even when people aren&#8217;t using them. His invention: a motion-activated escalator that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[19,20,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inventions","category-kids","category-observations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-78","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7648,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/7648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}