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Environmental Based Projects
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NiceGirl761
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Environmental Based Projects
I was wondering if any one knew any potential projects focused on the environment and if static electricity could be contained for energy use.
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SciB
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Re: Environmental Based Projects
Hi,
Those are pretty broad areas to be looking at for a project. For the first subject, the environment, I would suggest that you take the Scibuddies survey of personal preferences for a project: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ndaproject
This should give you a clearer idea of specific areas that you personally are stimulated by and would like to see develop into a science project.
Your second idea is intriguing and with physics and materials science changing so rapidly, I don’t discount the possibility of anything. I live in the lightning capital of the world (Florida) and I have often thought how great it would be if we could somehow collect lightning as we do rainwater. Storage is obviously the problem. It is possible to store a static charge, but then you have to turn it into a moving charge for energy use and it tends to discharge all at once—like the lightning bolts that came off Tesla’s static generator!
I would do some googling of this idea. Maybe there is somebody working on it and you can figure out a way to work it into a science project.
Good luck!
Sybee
Those are pretty broad areas to be looking at for a project. For the first subject, the environment, I would suggest that you take the Scibuddies survey of personal preferences for a project: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ndaproject
This should give you a clearer idea of specific areas that you personally are stimulated by and would like to see develop into a science project.
Your second idea is intriguing and with physics and materials science changing so rapidly, I don’t discount the possibility of anything. I live in the lightning capital of the world (Florida) and I have often thought how great it would be if we could somehow collect lightning as we do rainwater. Storage is obviously the problem. It is possible to store a static charge, but then you have to turn it into a moving charge for energy use and it tends to discharge all at once—like the lightning bolts that came off Tesla’s static generator!
I would do some googling of this idea. Maybe there is somebody working on it and you can figure out a way to work it into a science project.
Good luck!
Sybee