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Solar Cookers - A Great Solar Energy Science Project

Solar Energy science projects have now become the most popular thing ever in most places thanks to the ease with which they can be built and the materials that they require which is available very easily to everyone. Therefore these projects can be very easily constructed with simple science. Many science competitions are filled with people and students who build devices that make use of solar energy mainly because they find it easy to build. So let's take a look at some of the various things you can build that makes use of our sun and is really useful to everyone.
One of the main things that solar energy science projects require is obviously the sun. The sun reaches out to almost all human beings on earth thus providing the fuel for our solar projects. So, when I was participating in a science competition a couple of years back, I made use of simple things and built the following devices which I think would be extremely useful for someone looking to start out with these projects too.
Solar Cookers are one of the most popular solar energy science projects. These cookers are available for purchase by many companies. However, they can be built very easily too. Get hold of a box that is coated with black colour on all sides and covered by a glass panel on the top. Then, get hold of a big magnifying lens and place it at an appropriate distance from the box at the top such that it faces the glass box and the sun's rays pass through the magnifying lens to reach the box. That is all you need to do for building a solar cooker. Very high temperatures can be reached with the help of this type of a solar cooker.
This is but an example of one such device that you can build for a science project. I myself have participated in many science competitions and science fairs myself and have found that projects related to our sun's energy are a big favorite for the judges. They are always impressed with the way by which free energy in the form of the sun can be used to do such wonderful and useful things. Just make sure that it is slightly different from the others and has something creative about it. So, I hope that this helped you in choosing your favourite and easy to build solar energy science project.
Andy Jerald is devoted to helping to save the environment and control pollution by using the renewable sources of energy. He generates his own electricity with the help of solar energy at his house. He blogs about his projects. Check it out at Solar Energy Science Projects. Also check out a related article at Solar Energy Science Projects.

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  1. writing serviceJuly 6, 2017 at 2:34 AM

    Solar technology is now more familiar around the world. There are more people are like to use this technology in their home or industries. So i think government also need to helps the people to use this.

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