Doable Renewables: 16 Alternative Energy Projects for Young Scientists

by Mike Rigsby

Humankind needs to find and develop alternative forms of energy. As the world’s population continues to grow, more people will need access to lighting, communication, transit, and computing. Fossil fuels are being used up at an alarming pace, but other energy sources--solar, wind, waves, “waste” heat, and even human power--are both renewable and environmentally friendly. The projects in this book will help any budding scientist construct and explore working models that generate renewable, alternative energy.

            In Doable Renewables, readers will learn how to build a Kelvin water drop generator out of six recycled cans and alligator clip jumpers, a solar-powered seesaw from a large dial thermometer and a magnifying glass, and a windmill from eight yardsticks, PVC pipe, cardboard, and converter generator. Children will investigate the energy-generating properties of a solar cell, a radiometer, a Nitinol heat engine, and a Peltier cell. They’ll even build a human-powered desk lamp.

            Each project includes a materials and tools list, as well as online information on where to find specialized components. And for young scientists, author Mike Rigsby demonstrates how to use an infrared thermometer, a digital multimeter, and an electrical usage monitor to test their designs. Armed with this collection of technological possibilities, can the solution to the earth’s energy crisis be far off?

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Suman Biswas]

The book about Doable Renewables is about how the energy of different progresses work for the environment. It shows people on how to experiment such models of energy which is found towards World growth population like lighting, communication, transit and computing. Somehow other types of renewable energy is half-way according to like volts measure, sunlight and wind and in other based facts people will like simply find and explore them out. Everything constitutes of renewable energy as it is used for being transferred. The main fact and option is that they convert heat to something else.

The theme of the book is ''Alternative energy is always based on world's nature to be beneficiary.

Yes, I would recommend this book called ''Doable Renewables'' to other people, because it has a great evidence and studies that can rely on transferred energy that can fascinate and inspire people to investigate, explore and experiment with such materials to build other models of energy to help people identify them by visualizing to make the world's environment applicable to its nature.