Within the past week, our group has come up with some good ideas for what we are going to do for our experiment. We are doing an experiment on compressed air energy storage. We have come to the conclusion that our goal for this experiment is to have the high school students learn how to conduct this experiment, in a way that is not too difficult for them to try. We have come up with a slide show just to show how our experiment is going to work. That photo is shown below:
Above is what we are expecting our experiment to look like. Our objective for the students in this experiment is to find an alternate and cheaper way to store energy in other ways than a battery. This will teach the students sustainability, as well as how to be creative to come up with new ideas for energy storage. For this experiment, we have found all of the materials we need, including a high-pressure air tank, pipe, acting cylinder, piston, gears, generator, wires, and a small light bulb. Once all of these materials are together, we are having the students connect one end of pipe to high-pressure air tank, and the other to the acting cylinder. The acting cylinder will push its piston into the gears. The gears will move and turn on the generator. Wires connected to the generator will then turn on the small light bulb.
We will be conducting this experiment ourselves once our materials are shipped. Each group member has some sort of task so that nobody is left with nothing to do. Together, as we each complete our tasks, our experiment will come out a success! I feel that our group is excited to try this out, and have the high school students try it out as well.