| Renewable energy sources are all around us. We see | | | | becoming increasingly feasible as well. The Tesla |
| them and sense them every time we go outside or | | | | Roadster is currently being produced by Tesla Motors. |
| even look out a window. There is no shortage of ideas | | | | It is an extremely high-end, impressively |
| for outstanding renewable energy science fair | | | | energy-efficient, fully electrically powered vehicle. You |
| projects. Explore these suggestions and take your | | | | can do some science research on the Tesla |
| pick! | | | | Roadster's features and write a paper discussing the |
| Solar energy is becoming increasingly affordable and | | | | possibility of electric cars becoming more widely |
| widespread. Your science fair project can explore | | | | available at other price ranges as well. |
| how solar power works and what enables solar cells | | | | The fun of exploring renewable energy can also be |
| to convert the sun's energy into electricity to power | | | | applied to wind power. Did you know that 19 percent |
| homes and businesses. A great goal of your project | | | | of the electricity in Denmark is produced by windmills? |
| could be constructing a working solar cell of your own | | | | Did you know that the amount of electricity generated |
| and demonstrating this cell's abilities by activating a | | | | by wind power increased by a factor of more than |
| small light bulb or motor. | | | | five between 2000 and 2007? This is truly an |
| Other renewable energy science fair projects with | | | | emerging energy source. Your project could focus on |
| solar power can explore the structure and functions of | | | | the innovations that made the recent growth in wind |
| the solar updraft tower, the solar energy equivalent of | | | | power possible. Do you foresee further comparable |
| a power plant. Did you know that a prototype solar | | | | growth in the future? |
| updraft tower - Ciudad Real - was built in Spain in 1982 | | | | With these ideas for top-notch renewable energy |
| and operated until 1989? Today, several plans are | | | | science fair projects, you will not run out of fun, |
| underway to construct even larger solar updraft | | | | creative ways to explore emerging energy sources. |
| towers. Your project could investigate these plans and | | | | Perhaps your project will even bring forth insights that |
| comment on their feasibility. | | | | contribute toward the actual development of these |
| Great renewable energy science fair projects could | | | | energy sources. A lot still needs to be done in these |
| also focus on electrical power for cars - which is | | | | areas. Are you ready to make your impact on them? |