Turns out good, energy efficient engineering is a lot more than removing a few extra ribs on a design and slapping a low power motor in it. James Dyson has something to say about that. This story at Fast Co.Exist gets the vacuum innovator’s take on lazy engineering.
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Eco-Friendly Sink Design Completely Destroys the Concept of Washing Dishes

Eventually, the dishes just pile up so high in the sink you spray them with the nearest alcoholic beverage and light them on fire. When you see the result is only a light charring, out comes the broom handle you use to awkwardly jam them down the garbage disposal. There’s a better way, a better design, that make all that work much less destructive.
SolidWorks SustainabilityXpress Review. Beware, You Are Now the ‘Eco-Friendly’ Designer/Engineer.
Put down the oil can you’re dumping into the river and rev your electric motor Mr. Clean, we’re gettin’ sustainable and Xpress-ive up in this design. Yes, you could single-handed prevent further disintegration of the atmosphere and taxpayer burden by properly analyzing your design and applying a material that reduces those nasty carbon molecules causing the sun to cook everyone’s brainpan.
SolidWorks has released the beta version of SustainabilityXpress on the SolidWorks Labs site. We’ve got the eco-friendly, low calorie review.
So, prepare yourself to become the sustainable designer or engineer you’ve always dreamed of becoming. And since this post is generating a carbon footprint larger than a 7MPG truck without a muffler in a developing country, you’ll have to work that much harder on optimizing your design… just sayin’.




