Free Know-how for Academics: How a Generator Works
December 21, 2022 2 min read
Final weekend we had an enormous snowstorm that knocked out {the electrical} energy in my complete neighborhood and in about half of our city. In my neighborhood we had been with out electrical energy from Friday evening via Monday afternoon. Thankfully, we’ve got a transportable generator that gives electrical energy for the necessities in our home and we’ve got a bunch of battery backup light bulbs that we will use within the evenings. As I walked our canine on Sunday afternoon I heard the hum of turbines. That jogged my memory of a few brief video classes about electrical energy era that I shared with my college students a few years in the past.
The Engineering Mindset is a YouTube channel on which I’ve discovered a bunch of nice classes through the years. A type of is AC Electrical Generation Basics. Whereas it would not particularly tackle transportable turbines like the one you can find in my garage, it does do an important job of clearly explaining how electrical energy is generated by the elements that you will discover in a transportable generator.
Can You Power a House With a Bicycle? is a video produced a couple of years in the past by NPR’s Skunk Bear. The reply isn’t any, you possibly can’t energy a home with a bicycle. The video does an important job of explaining what number of bicyclists you would wish to be able to energy a mean home for a month.
Homemade Bicycle Generator was produced by Yard Path Builds (a channel about constructing bike trails and jumps). What’s good about this video is that the producer defined his preliminary errors and the way he corrected them. The video can be not so detailed that it would not encourage extra curiosity about the right way to enhance on the design.
How Do Solar Panels Work? is a TED-Ed lesson that covers the fundamentals of what photo voltaic panels are made from and the way electrical energy is generated from them. The video additionally delves into among the political and societal limitations to photo voltaic panel set up and photo voltaic array developments.
How Do Wind Turbines Work? is a TED-ED lesson that covers the fundamentals of how wind generators harness the ability of wind to generate electrical energy. The essential math of wind turbine design can be defined to viewers of the video. Total, it is a high quality lesson however not probably the most detailed of classes.
