Concept Luna, the first prototype for a parallel innovation workstream to accelerate the circular design of Dell’s products, has arrived at Dell Technologies. With increased concerns about climate change, e-waste, and resource scarcity, Dell looked into how it could push reuse to its limits and drastically minimize their product’s carbon footprint. Concept Luna is a proof-of-concept developed in conjunction with Intel that investigates breakthrough design ideas to make components instantly accessible, replaceable, and reusable, lowering resource consumption and maintaining more circular materials in the economy.
Concept Luna was built to see what was feasible rather than to be mass-produced and commercialized. However, if all of Concept Luna’s design concepts come to fruition, the overall carbon footprint of the product might be reduced by 50%.
Dell’s environmental initiatives go back decades, and its ambitious aims to accelerate the circular economy and achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions have never been more mission vital. In order to achieve these aims, the company’s current circular design practises continue to generate leadership across its product portfolio. Dell has introduced closed-loop aluminium from old hard drives, bioplastics generated from tree waste in the paper-making process, and increased its use of recycled carbon fibre to almost 1.2 million pounds in the previous year alone.
The following are some of the highlights of Concept Luna:
• A lower carbon footprint for the product: new approaches to improve energy efficiency, supply better power and cooling, and test materials with a lower carbon footprint to help deliver a more decarbonized gadget.
• A future vision of reuse, repair, and recreation: shift from “use, then recycle” to “use, reuse numerous times, then recycle” when the material is no longer usable in its original state. That is exactly what this iteration of Concept Luna accomplishes. It depicts a vision of what might be.
Concept Luna is an excellent illustration of Dell’s efforts to find innovative ways to significantly speed progress toward its objectives. Demonstrating what is possible is only the first step; the next step is to analyze which of these unique, sustainable design ideas has the most potential to scale throughout the product portfolio. Concept Luna and subsequent revisions will rely on Dell’s existing circular economy leadership to investigate, re-examine, and reconsider every step of the product lifecycle in order to create even more sustainable goods in the future.
