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Energy: Transforming Renewable Resources-Photovoltaics

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Learning to incorporate a variety of eco-friendly energy sources into businesses and homes will make Earth a better place to live. Students explore photovoltaics, the design behind wind turbine technology and the creative processes behind vehicles in the American Solar Car Race. Zero energy houses of the future will use many of these technologies to produce more energy than they consume. Renewable energy technologies are important for the future of our planet.

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