Wind Turbine Science Fair Projects

Wind turbine science fair projects can be completed using a science fair science kit, by using a premade turbine or by finding parts separately and assembling them together. There are many different types of turbine science experiments that you can conduct. You can focus your turbine environmental science fair projects on the design and construction of your wind turbine or on the application of the energy produced by the wind turbine.

The PicoTurbine Windmill is the best science fair project kit to measure wind energy. It is easy to use, you can create your own experiments, and it looks homemade (the judges like that).

The first type of wind turbine science fair projects that you can complete are wind turbine design science projects. These PicoTurbine Wind science fair projects will focus on how variations made to the design of the windmill's turbine impacts its ability to harness the power of the wind and produce energy. Below you will find an example project for turbine design projects.

Wind turbines come in all different shapes and sizes. There are geared and direct drive wind turbines. There are horizontal axis and vertical axis wind turbines. There are upwind and downwind turbines. There are big and small ones. Some have 1 or 2 blades, and some have 12 or more blades! Some even have more than one rotor! Some new experimental wind turbines are designed to float in the air like kites! There are even wind turbines that do not rotate at all.

Try to build a few different types and see how they do at producing power in the same types of environments. While these types of experiments can be more complicated, they are much more rewarding because you have lots of cool wind catchers when you are done, and you will know which design proved the best.

There are a lot of different variables listed above. Remember to start simple when you are working on a science project. Isolate one or two variables that you want to experiment with so you don't get overwhelmed.

In addition to focusing wind turbine science fair projects on the design of the turbine, you can also focus the design of the renewable energy projects on the design of the blades, the height of the tower and the design of the motor. Since there are so many different variables that you can play around with in your turbine science experiments you will want to isolate one variable per experiment. This doesn't mean that your overall project has to look at only one variable of a wind turbine, but it does mean that you will need to design a unique experiment for testing each variable that you want to experiment with.