FINAL PROJECT:

Team leader: Rajchel, Adam
Team:DeLisle, Molly
Orecchio-Egresitz, Haven
Maat, Ausar
Proctor, Alexsandra

Wind Turbine

For our final project we would like to construct our own  wind turbine. Using a large fan, a model turbine in the classroom, and one of our batteries we hope to capture wind power and store it to later be used as electricity. At first the concept seemed useless. Why are we using a fan to power a fan? But, now I realize that what we are displaying through our experiment is the ability to store the generated power. On our test run we noticed that it does take a lot of wind to make a small amount of stored electricity. This demonstrates one of the difficulties with the use of wind power. Unfortunately, it is not efficient enough ti power an entire society.

However, the concept of creating and storing electricity from nothing but wind is ideal. Hopefully the process will become more efficient in the future.

(Note: in our experiment we have to use electricity to power the large fan, but the fan is a symbol for natural wind: a renewable resource. )