This museum shows natural phenomena in museum sized exhibits. It's really cool to see how they took such huge concepts and put them in a "fishbowl" for people to see and learn from.
This is the Catching The Wind Exhibit. The museum has an actual wind turbine and lets people see real time information from it. It also gives other case studies of wind turbines and lets people explore the trade offs of using wind energy.
Energized exhibit has videos and other info and ties back into the wind lab in the Catching the wind exhibit.
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This just showed a bunch of tornado in a box exhibits- which I thought was cool since tornados are the first thing that comes to mind when I consider the power of the wind.
Full-body exhibits.. basically a playground that explores the different types of renewable power, energy transformation, and makes people think about what they'd do if the power went out. I liked the fact that it brought up issues like that and showed people how energy is transformed.
This exhibit had a real wind turbine but they also commissioned and artist to make a piece around the base that used the turbine and the shadows. I thought this was an interesting direction and made the turbine visually interesting rather than ugly- which is one of its biggest criticisms.
I really liked this exhibit because it was interactive and interesting. It let the user direct a pipe that collected wind into a generator- once they got enough power it made a special song play. I like that they could see the difference in power that the direction and height of the pipe made and they could see it power something.
I also found sites about building your own small wind turbine, (google David Mussell and build your own VAWT) which could serve dual purposes of powering and being a part of our exhibit.
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