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:

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