All About Museum of Science Boston

Even though I was late and didn’t go to the museum with the class, I still manage to get to the museum and find the whole class. I believe this was my second time that went into the museum, however, everything is kind of different to what I remember. The main focus of coming to the science museum this time is to learn more about wind and solar energy. The first department we went to was the Museum of Wind Lab. wind-turbine

As you may not know, the purpose of a turbine is to convert the air into electricity with it’s spinning blades. In this department, we notice that this is an laboratory that is for monitoring local wind conditions and the wind power generation datas. The lab also contained many historical informations, not to mention the wind turbines that people had made. An example would be the Swift Rooftop Wind Energy System. Flywheel

Later, we learned about storing energy, and the example that we used is the Beacon Power Corporation, located in Tyngsboro MA. The main purpose of this system is they can transform the electricity into mechanical energy, which in other word, making it much more easy to store it. We also learned that when the power plant produces more electricity than it asked for, the electricity that is left will make the flywheel spin faster. On the other hand, if the consumer requires more electricity, the motor will become an electrical generator.

In conclusion, going to the museum this time was a great experience since we are learning the similar things in class. This will help us have a better understanding because there’s an actual model that we can learn about it.

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