Monday, October 6, 2014

The Jewish American teen who's making school buses 'green'

While still in school, Jonny Cohen started GreenShields, a project that aims to design an aerodynamic Plexiglass air shield that would cut buses' fuel use.


By Suzanne Kurtz Sloan for Haaretz

Jonny CohenJTA - As a seventh-grader walking home in Highland Park, Ill., Jonny Cohen would watch school buses pass by and wonder if there might be a way to make them more energy efficient.

School buses are an “overlooked form of transportation,” says Jonny Cohen, now 19. “I like efficiency and for things to be efficient, and I have a passion for the environment.”

With the help of some friends and advisers at Northwestern University, he started the GreenShields Project to design an aerodynamic Plexiglass air shield for the front of the buses. The shield cuts the fuel use by buses up to 25 percent by reducing their drag.

“Taking something that already exists and modifying it just a little can make a big difference,” Cohen said. “We only have one earth and we can’t be wasteful.”

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