Recently we have been talking more about solar panels. Here is some information that Mrs Cavanagh a while back.
Our solar panels have now been up for almost 6 months. We finally have the "Splash Monitoring" system properly installed so that you can see what sort of energy we are generating at any one time. If you're interested in taking a look, you can visit our site at:
I particularly like the graphic in the bottom right where it gives comparisons to the cumulative energy we have generated… At the time that I wrote this post, we had generated 5125KWh (Kilo Watt Hours) of electricity since the panels went up, this is the same as:
- boiling 215 thousand cups of tea
- making 273 thousand pieces of toast
- driving a car 6ooo Kilometers
- powering a house (for 3 people) for 25 weeks
- preventing the release of 2.7 tons of CO2 into our atmosphere
WOW! That's a lot of electricity! It's great to see the panels are doing their job so efficiently. I know lots of the classes are studying energy sustainability this term - so hopefully this new monitoring system will help us all learn more about solar power.
This is very interesting learning Room 7, have you looked at other sustainable energy sources?
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