Wind power is recognized as a clean, quiet, feasible alternative electricity source around the world. When you think of wind power, what image comes to mind? A wide expanse of undeveloped land dotted with sleek, rotating turbines? What about rooftop turbines right in the city, similar in arrangement to solar rooftop panels?
The NYTimes.com published a […]
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New Year’s Resolution: Go Green!
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 7:28 am
Written by: Mary LeFever
Texas Economy Prospers With the Wind
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 7:26 pm
Written by: Mary LeFever
Talk of a looming recession and sky-high oil prices don’t seem to worry many Texans. Instead, they’re cashing in on the benefits of an alternative energy source, wind, literally.
Many Texans are happily trading defunct oil rigs for wind turbine installations on their land. One Texan is being paid $500 a month for each turbine he […]
Posted in Topics: Earth Science, Energy Transfer, Environment, Science
Is Walking a Waste of Energy?
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 9:12 pm
Written by: Mary LeFever
Have you ever considered the irony of a gym full of people using electrically powered exercise machines to burn energy? What if the mechanical energy of those moving bodies could be converted into usable electric energy? That’s exactly what Arthur Kuo, a University of Michigan mechanical engineer, and his colleagues have done. Both News in […]
Posted in Topics: Energy Transfer, Science, Technology
The Relationship Between Sea Surface Temperature and Hurricane Activity
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 7:52 am
Written by: Mary LeFever
Is your unit on climate and weather approaching? Here’s some current research you can use to enrich students’ understanding of weather. It can help you make real-world connections from the textbook and classroom to the research scientists working to understand the science of hurricanes.
The news comes from ScienceDaily. The article, Increased Hurricane Activity Linked to […]
Posted in Topics: Earth Science, Energy Transfer, Environment, Methods of Science, Science
Organic Sources of Fuel Don’t Have To Be Fossil Fuels
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 8:04 am
Written by: Mary LeFever
Will we ever find a suitable, sustainable, and reliable substitute for fossil fuels? Sure, there’s wind, water, or solar power, but these sources are dependent on the conditions of nature and are not always reliable. ScienceDaily reported, on November 3, 2007, that two microbiologists, Rhonda Zeltwanger and Michael Cotta at Washington University in St. […]
Posted in Topics: Biotechnology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Energy Transfer, Methods of Science, Science
An Explosion, a Crater, and a Remote Mountain Locale
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 8:57 pm
Written by: Mary LeFever
It sounds like the plot of a black-and-white, sci-fi B-movie: Rural residents hear a steadily increasing loud noise that crescendoes into an explosion, after which they find an “object, metallic in nature, created a crater 41 feet in diameter [and 16 feet deep] and produced a seismic shock equivalent to a 1.5-magnitude earthquake. . . […]
Posted in Topics: Earth Science, Energy Transfer
Posted in Topics: Conservation, Earth Science, Energy Transfer, Science, Technology
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