Vindtved Energy Cabin
Solar cells and soap bubbles - An energy cabin has been created!
The first steps have been taken in an ambitious project, and there are plenty of opportunities to further develop the learning universe with physical installations such as a weather station, wind technology - yes maybe an Energy Wheel, where we humans can see how many watts we can create by running around the wheel - we can race with the wind turbines. It would be only natural to expand with more STEM experiments, so that it is not only data from the wind turbines that the students can use, but also from the solar cells and the battery box. In fact, we can already read historical data on the facility - for example, the solar cells have produced 13 kilowatt hours in total. All data is read in a app. In Vindtved Energy cabin, we have helped to create a learning space about renewable energy via solar energy, and where part of the dissemination takes place using the technology from our StoryTeller. Here in the cabin, it has a unique design as it is built into the back wall of the cabin and has thus become an integral part of the exhibition / learning space. We have designed the turntable as wind turbine blades to emphasize the history and ideology behind the entire project.
“We are full of admiration for what this local community manages to lift! They make bold and visionary decisions and enter partnerships that have delivered (in my optics) a very successful outcome. A result that provides the opportunity to experience practice-based study-based teaching as the example from sun to soap bubbles. Thanks to Lars Thomsen, Anton Gammelgaard and the science consultant Ulla Hjøllund Linderoth for an absolutely fantastic collaboration - we hope that this is only the beginning. Thanks to all those who have contributed financially including Norlys and all the local forces who have given a hand in many ways.“
- Sofie Halkjær, director of EnergiLeg
FROM SOLAR ENERGY TO SOAP BUBBLES
Bubbles From solar energy to soap bubbles - yes it's just an idea for how you can use a self-sufficient sustainable facility!!You can also charge your cell phone, make your own smoothie, get lights in the cabin and lots of other things. How do you create learning environments with the opportunity to experiment with, among other things, light, the sun's significance, solar energy, solar radiation, color spectra, wavelengths, wind energy, wind speed, wind direction, precipitation, supply sources, noise, electromagnetism, battery technology, energy storage, current and voltage. The monitoring also provides an opportunity to work theoretically with the results of production. The data that the various units produce are obvious to include in the teaching. Thus, both practice and theory can be connected, and then sustainability is put on the school timetable! A completely unique learning environment for interdisciplinary learning, where students have the opportunity to work problem-based based on the four science competence areas: Research, modeling, perspective and communication. Students can convert, manipulate, retrieve, process, understand and put into perspective.
Read more about the Solar Science box HERE
DATA RIGHT DOWN ON YOUR MOBILE PHONE
On the app, which you can download, you can read how much energy the solar cells produce while you are in / by the cabin. It is RL data it generates.
Furthermore, you can also see some historical data for other days - if there for example have been very sunny days that can be measured against less sunny days.
