Solar energy
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For two weeks in December 2015, the residents of the Chinese capital of Beijing, a single city home to more people than any US state except California or Texas, had a “Red Alert” for air pollution.
Thick smog from factories and the more than 5 million cars in the region had made the air unsafe for people to be outside and the government was forced to close schools and limit travel to keep the 22 million residents from being exposed to dangerous amounts of toxins in the air they were breathing.
Anyone who dared to venture outside wore protective masks over their faces in an attempt to limit the damage this severe pollution caused to their body. This is an extreme example of human dependence on fossil fuels, but it’s exactly the kind of situation that scientists around the world have been trying to prevent by researching the potential of clean sources of energy to replace the coal and oil fuels that cause the pollution found in Beijing and elsewhere.
In this learning scenario you will learn how to install a mini solar panel, know how it works and control its power generation through sensors.
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