Science of Technology

This was a great interactive from AAAS that asked students to select power plants to achieve a given amount of power, while limiting cost and environmental impact. The numbers were deliberately messy, so there would be a need to scale up certain power generators to accurately compare with others. In the original game, only wind and natural gas were complete single-source solutions. Solar was very expensive and coal was very dirty. The simulation has been removed from their site, and I have not been able to find the methodology they used to generate cost and environmental impact numbers.

I have code that mimics the original interactive, and would love to update the numbers to reflect improvements in technology over time.

Apollo 13 1:16 “You can't even run a vacuum cleaner on 12 Amps!”

• Measurement: There are a variety of ways to measure electricity. (Volts, Amps, Watts)
• Ohm's Law:

1. Producing Electrical Energy
   • Case Study: Generators
   • Case Study: Batteries
2. Energy Efficiency
3. Voltage & Current
   • Ohm's Law
   • Case Study Parallel & Series
4. Power & Energy
   • Case Study: Power Tools
   • Case Study: Electric Bill
5. Alternating Current
   • Case Study: Fuses
   • Case Study: Electrocution