Wind Turbine

In class we had the project to create a wind turbine.  A wind turbine is a type of generator.  And a generator is a device that turns mechanical energy into electrical energy.  This is done by inducing a current in loops and coils of wires.  When a magnet is moved over a coil of wire the electromagnetic field is changed and a voltage and current are induced.  So what a wind turbine does is it uses the mechanical energy of the wind to spin any amount of magnets over coils of wire.  The faster that the magnets move over the coils and the more magnets and coils that there are, the greater the induced current will be.   So the biggest challenge in all of this project was to get our magnets spinning quickly and closely to the coils in order to generate the most electricity.