Renewable Energy
Obtained by harnessing the energy of the sun's rays.
What is solar energy?
The device that is used to absorb the sun's rays and convert them into electricity or heat.
What is a solar panel?
The device that is used to measure voltage, current, and resistance.
What is a multimeter?
Do the colors of the jumper wires matter when building a circuit?
False
The amount of major renewable energy sources there are.
What is five?
The process by which the wind is used to generate mechanical power or electricity.
What is wind energy.
Solar cables that connect modules, arrays, and sub-fields are typically made of what 29th element on the periodic table. You have also used this type of tape to connect wires when making the solar spinner.
What is copper?
The board that is used to connect the wires when building a circuit.
What is a breadboard?
Solar panels use PN junctions to capture the energy from the sun.
The motor that relies on the electric and magnetic fields to rotate.
What is an electromagnetic motor?
Energy that generates power by using a dam or diversion structure to alter the natural flow of a river or other body of water.
What is hydro energy?
A solar panel works by enabling photons (particles of light) to knock electrons free from atoms. This then generates a flow of electricity, specifically DC. This is what DC stands for.
What is direct current.
This is an example of a _____ circuit. (Drawn on the board).
What is a series circuit?
It does not matter the direction that current flows through an LED.
False
The solar thermal collector that can be used to heat up food.
Form of energy conversion in which heat energy from within Earth is captured and harnessed for cooking, bathing, space heating, electrical power generation, and other uses.
What is geothermal energy?
The average efficiency of a solar panel.
What is 15%?
This is an example of a _____ circuit. (Drawn on the board).
What is a parallel cicuit?
LED stands for "light emitting diode."
True
"P" and "N" in "PN junction" stand for.
What is positive and negative?
Energy generated from wood and wood waste, biogas from landfill waste, sewage and industrial wastewater, animal waste, and municipal solid waste.
What is biomass energy?
Solar cells are usually made from this semiconductor material which was first demonstrated by researchers at Bell Labs in 1954.
What is Silicon?
This device is used to sense light when making the solar tracker.
What is a photoresistor?
An infrared camera cannot sense the radiation behind materials such as a trash bag.
False.
The year the first solar panel was made.
What is 1883?