Designing
Evelyne Salançon, Senior Lecturer, Marseille Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanoscience (CINaM)
Quentin Ailloud, PhD student at the Fresnel Institute
Reception of classes from the 4th grade onwards
During this workshop, students will be led to better understand and question the notion of energy:
- What is energy?
- What I consider to be an energy is it an energy?
- Where did it come from?
- How is it produced?
- What are the world's energy consumptions?
- And how are they distributed?
- What is renewable energy?
Wind Energy Module
They will be led to discover the physics of the wind turbine. They will test hypotheses on its operating principle by conducting several experiments on wind turbine models. By playing with the parameters, students will become aware of the energy developed by the wind turbine and will be able to compare the effort they must put into it:
- a wind turbine mounted in a water elevator, allows to calculate the power of the wind turbine according to whether it has 2, 3 or 4 blades.
- a wind turbine mounted as a power generator helps to understand how electricity can be created from mechanical energy. Very technical questions can be addressed such as the multiplication of the speed of rotation, the angle of the blades in front of the wind, the operation of a dynamo or an alternator...
Solar Energy Module
During exchanges interspersed with demonstrations and observations, students will discover the crystals and one of their applications in the production of photovoltaic solar panels.