Experimenting with solar energy will also deliver results that are quantifiable with traditional mathematics including: Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry and Calculus. These calculations are significant when transitioning from one source of energy to another, since it is important to improve that which is above the earth's crust by not altering that which is below the earth's crust. These calculations become critically meaningful when renewable energy renews at rates that vary from yearto-year, such as when the atmosphere blocks sunlight and reduces the solar energy potential. Congruently, the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency marks "...a new era of energy exploration" in the United States, according to President Barack Obama. In a joint address to the Congress on February 24, 2009, President Obama called for doubling renewable energy within the next three years. New government spending, new regulations and new policies enabled conceivable sustainable production of renewable energy to endure the 2009 economic challenges better than other energy sectors.
This curriculum unit is intended to assist in teaching about the seminar subject in high school classrooms. Mathematics and Physics introduce a variety of equations for both growth and decay that require familiar, popular and tangible examples or models to be successfully taught and learned. Renewable energy is generated from natural resource models such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable, naturally replenished, and familiar. The share of global energy consumption and generation of electricity from renewables totals 18% from traditional biomass, such as wood-burning and hydroelectricity, and new renewables that include small hydro, modern biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, and biofuels [4]. Wind power contributes a worldwide capacity of 121,000 megawatts (MW), and is widely used in European countries and the United States.[4] The annual manufacturing output of the photovoltaics industry has reached 6,900 MW, and photovoltaic (PV) power stations are popular in Germany and Spain.[5] Solar thermal power stations operate in the U.S.A. and Spain, and the largest of these is the 354 MW SEGS power plant in the Mojave Desert. [5]
