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    Author Showcase: Doable Renewables: 16 Alternative Energy Projects for Young Scientists

    Bianca SchulzeBy Bianca Schulze2 Mins Read Author Showcase Environment & Ecology
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    By Mike Rigsby, for The Children’s Book Review
    Published: October 5, 2010

    Self-Published BookYears ago, Bishop Milton Wright brought a rubber band-powered helicopter to his sons, Orville and Wilbur, who were then 7 and 11 years old. The Wright brothers later claimed that their interest in flight began with this gift.

    Another child, age 5, was sick in bed. His father brought him a magnetic compass. The boy could not get the compass to point in any direction but north. There was “something behind things, something deeply hidden,” he observed. The boy was Albert Einstein.

    Doable Renewables: 16 Alternative Energy Projects for Young Scientists (Chicago Review Press) is dedicated to “the unknown kid who is going to change the world.” The projects in this book will help any budding scientist construct and explore working models that generate renewable, alternative energy.

    Large scale production of renewable energy will raise the living standard for billions of people (think clean water, mechanized food production, schools with electricity). Renewable energy will stop the advance of global warming (decrease burning of the world’s limited fossil fuels). Production of this energy will provide a worldwide economic boom (think millions of people producing things that improve the world).

    Who has the energy and vision to tackle such an enormous task? Who believes in a world of infinite possibilities? Kids. Doable Renewables is a collection of projects intended to spark imagination and encourage the thought that, “Hey, there is free energy all around us, just waiting for the taking.”

    Mike Rigsby is a professional electrical engineer and the author of Amazing Rubber Band Cars and Haywired. He has written for Byte, Circuit Cellar, Modern Electronics, Popular Science, Robotics Age and other magazines. He lives in Sanibel, Florida. Visit his website at www.misterengineer.com.

    Author Showcase: A place for authors and illustrators to gain visibility for their works. Titles featured in the Author Showcase have not been reviewed by The Children’s Book Review, and reflect the thoughts of the author, illustrator, or publishing company. Read more …

    *Disclosure: Please note that this post may contain affiliate links that share some commission. Rest assured that these will not affect the cost of any products and services promoted here. Our team always provides their authentic opinion in all content published on this site.

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    Bianca Schulze is the founder of The Children’s Book Review. She is a reader, reviewer, mother and children’s book lover. She also has a decade’s worth of experience working with children in the great outdoors. Combined with her love of books and experience as a children’s specialist bookseller, the goal is to share her passion for children’s literature to grow readers. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, she now lives with her husband and three children near Boulder, Colorado.

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