Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My 2008 #Energy Trap# project studied solar ponds as an energy collector and storage system combined. I effectively proved that by creating salinity gradient body of water w…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The main purpose of my science project was to see if juices from plants native to Humboldt County, when used as base materials in Graetzel photovoltaic solar cells, could ge…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to investigate whether McKinleyville, California has enough wind to generate the electricity needed to power a house using a household wind t…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to develop alternative energy sources to fuel our growing world demand for energy and to reduce fossil fuel emission, by utilizing hydropower. My goal was t…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My topic was to study the effects of intensity, temperature, and angle on a solar cell#s power output. I chose this topic because I am interested in how solar cells work. I…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This experiment's objective was to determine the effects of different chimney heights on the solar updraft tower in generating energy. Methods/Materials The solar updraft to…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine if the run off from rain on residential rooftops can be harnessed to the degree that rooftop hydroelectric systems can be developed to contribute to energy prod…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to investigate how changes in temperature, angle and exposure to the sun affect the wattage output of a solar cell. Methods/Materials This projec…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine whether it is more efficient to run an air conditioner in the day or night and in long or short time blocks. Methods/Materials M…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Can a windbelt, an alternative wind powered device using a ribbon belt instead of blades, generate enough wave energy to oscillate a magnet and coil induction circuit to pow…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Last year my project was a broad investigation about the possibility of generating power with a simple microbial fuel cell. This year, I seek to determine which anode electr…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to see if a battery would last longer being turned off and on or staying on continuously. Methods/Materials I used six flashlights, three o…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Third Award
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine which nutrients would be most effective in increasing the density of oil-producing algae when grown in a photo bioreactor. Methods/Materials Five…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine weather solar or wind is a more dependable energy source for private generating systems in Riverside,California, over a specific period. My hyp…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Question: By decreasing the distance traveled and therefore decreasing the input force, can I make a more efficient human power generation machine? Hypothesis: By using a ra…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to discover if the use of reflective materials would increase the output of a solar panel. Methods/Materials In my experiment, I used a variety…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if placing aluminum foil reflective panels on a photovoltaic cell would have an effect on the current produced by the solar panel.…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Determine how smoke from a forest fire affects the power output of solar cells and if either amorphous or crystalline solar cells perform better in a smoky environment. Meth…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Conventional solar energy usually means dozens of expensive solar panels pointed at the sun. A alternative form of solar energy is to use mirrors to focus more light onto a…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Current solar concentrator systems are either too expensive or too complicated to build and therefore are not used by the common man. My objective was to design an economica…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project is to determine if light reflected onto a solar panel is an efficient way to produce electricity. Last year I tested at which angle to the…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Not all areas of the world have access to a source of clean water. In some countries people have to drink contaminated water and risk their health to stay hydrated. In natur…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to increase the power efficiency of solar cells by changing the alloys of the solar cells. Based on my research, the hypothesis I formed, the solar cell effi…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goal was to determine if the angle a solar cell is mounted at would affect the amount of energy the cell would produce. Methods/Materials Materials: multimeter, solar cel…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project investigates the use of solar power to generate hydrogen through electrolysis and measures the amount of electricity generated when that hydrogen is reabsorbed…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment was to investigate and test how sunlight intensity effects solar panel performance. The hypothesis was that during the summer, the solar pane…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine what section of a wave will produce the most electrical energy. The reason I did this project is to see if wave power is a credibl…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to create a device that would harness solar radiation and convert it into electricity. Our hypothesis was that the temperature of the air exi…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
First Award
Objectives/Goals Microbial fuel cell (MFC) performance is dependent upon many complex microbe-electrode interactions. To attain commercial viability, researchers must better understand the e…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if a novel V-groove solar panel using solar cells on one sidewall of the V-grooves and mirrors on the other sidewall can generate electricity m…