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For our final project our group (leader Dana) decided that we were going to build our own mini Peltier device. After reading the guidelines for the final project and seeing Tom Vales’ presentation, we reached a group decision that a mini … Continue reading →

I love that we were assigned this blog because this all takes place close to where my house in New York is! Indian Point is a nuclear power plant located on the Hudson River about 35 miles from NYC. There … Continue reading →

This past week in class we took a field trip to MIT, and took a tour of the plasma center. First we heard a lecture about plasma, what it is, and how MIT is using it. After the lecture, which … Continue reading →

Who are they?: mnn.com gives out the 7 surprising global warming deniers and what their reasons are! Donald Trump-Businessman: Trump believes that global warming is a myth due to citing snow as his proof. Ted Nugent- Musician : States “global … Continue reading →

“Thermodynamics is the branch of physical science concerned with heat and its relation to other forms of energy and work. It defines macroscopic variables (such as temperature, entropy, and pressure) that describe average properties of material bodies and radiation, and … Continue reading →

This weeks lab was a solar energy lab. The point of the lab was to gain an understanding of the relationship between light intensity and the voltage output of the solar cell. And also, the relationship between the wavelength of light and … Continue reading →

  Solyndra is a solar panel manufacturer in California that  declared bankruptcy in August 2011 laying off 1100 employees. The main problem with Solyndra, most people said, was that it looked better when it was made than when it came out onto the … Continue reading →

SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE This weeks lab was a generator lab, and was actually pretty cool! Each group got a flash light type object that connected to the computer where we controlled it as usual. The purpose of the lab was … Continue reading →

“Hydraulic fracturing is the propagation of fractures in a rock layer caused by the presence of a pressurized fluid. Hydraulic fractures form naturally, as in the case of veins or dikes, and is one means by which gas and petroleum from source rocks … Continue reading →

This past week in class, we worked on a project that was an energy experiment. The project played off a bit of the lego robot experiment that we worked on in previous weeks, and the way in which it went … Continue reading →