Museum of Science
Last week as a class we took a trip to the Museum of Science. When we got there i was confused as to what exactly our task was to do while we were there. After walking around in somewhat no direction, I found an exhibit on renewable energy ideas. It went through many different ways on which we could explore renewable energy. One of the first boards explained about Solar Energy.
This board explained to use how the Museum itself uses solar panels on the roof of the building to transform sunlight into electricity. The panels generate on average about the same amount of energy the Theater of Electricity uses, which is about 2,300 kWh every month.
The sun currently provides more than a thousand times more energy than the world needs. However our technologies aren’t developed enough to process all the energy that the sun produces. The sun is also very inconsistent, so we are only able to harness about 1% of that energy.The photo above shows the amount of solar energy available at ground level averaged over the course of a year.
There are many different shapes that we can use to collect the energy from the sun. Theres the
Parabolic Dish:
Trough:
Tower:
4/5 of today’s energy comes from non-renewable fossil fuels. However we are expecting the renewable energy sector to double from 8% to 16% by the year of 2030.
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