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Stirling Heat Engine and The Peltier Device
Looking into the Stirling Heat Engine, one can stir up hundreds of articles, but exploring the Peltier Device is a different problem. Reliable information on the internet is far and in-between, and...
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Solar Energy Lab
This past week in class, we did an experiment focusing on the effect light has from varying distances, and the changes that occur to it’s power when you add in a second variable—-color. With the...
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Iceland: Geothermal Energy
25% of Iceland’s electricity come’s directly from Geothermal power. After doing some research, I found it startling to see that a country has utilized this capacity so well, and was capable of...
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A nuclear reactor in the heart of Cambridge, MA does sound pretty alarming. In fact, I did not even know the Reactor was active until my classmates and I arrived at the MIT Reactor. The facility was...
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Fukushima Nuclear Accident
On March 11, 2o11, the country of Japan suffered a major nuclear meltdown. A magnitude 9.0 earthquake, named the “Great East Japan Earthquake”, wrecked havoc in the region and created a tsunami as a...
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Museum of Science Trip
Having been to the Museum of Science in Boston a few times before in my life, I was well-versed on the layout of the museum itself, which made locating the exhibits we had to observe a lot easier....
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President’s Climate Action Plan
President Obama’s Climate Action Plan drafted in June of 2013, outlines three major categories, which are: Cut Carbon Pollution in America, Prepare the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change,...
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Keystone XL Pipeline
The Keystone XL Pipeline is project under proposal that would cover 1,179 miles(or 1,897km), with a 36 inch diameter, stretching from Hardesty, Alberta(Canada) to Steele City, Nebraska. Why is this so...
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Pandora’s Promise
The movie Pandora’s Promise, directed by Robert Stone in 2013, strove to provide details about nuclear energy, and promote the controversial form of energy, as a clean and efficient form. The film...
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Solar Experiment by Kurt, Connor & Noor
Throughout the process of designing and developing our own experiment for the rest of the class to perform, we encountered a variety of problems and discovered that creating a unique experiment, was...
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