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PRIMARY PROJECT: WINDMILL OPTIMIZATION
Wind energy contributes to 7.3% of the energy generated in 2022. However, optimizing wind energy remains a challenge due to its variability and dependence on factors like wind speed, direction, and turbine efficiency. Can you create a project that optimizes wind turbine energy generation in the most modern methods? Together let’s build models of the future and learn about the futures of wind energy.
Timing is flexible, but you should aim to attend at least biweekly!
Workshops are usually once a week in the SEC, 3 hours long, with dinner provided. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO STAY FOR THE ENTIRE WORKSHOP!
Timing is flexible, but you should aim to attend at least biweekly! Email jwen@college.harvard.edu with any questions.
OTHER PROJECTS
Solar Beehive Monitoring Project (collaboration with Harvard Undergraduate Beekeeping Club)
Innovate: Ideation for Pitching Competition
PAST PROJECT: PHOTOVOLTAICS
Combines photovoltaic technology with horticulture in one of our most daring projects to date. We will design, build, and implement a fully functioning agrivoltaic system on Harvard’s campus. This is one small but important part of the clean energy transition: small scale projects to improve our local community.
PHOTOXSYNTHESIS is a hybrid community garden that seeks to start a conversation about sustainable power consumption and generation. We leverage agrivoltaics, which combines solar energy production with the cultivation of native plants, to present a future where physical-digital ecosystems can exist in symbiosis.
For more information, see the project brief.
Why Agrivoltaics?
Why not use land for both agriculture and energy production? Superimposing solar panels on crops provides needed shade for plants and extra power generation for farmers.
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