Envirotech – Fort Frye Technological Design Grades 9-12 Fort Frye High School Mr. Andy Ring

Envirotech Project Comparing compact fluorescents to incandescent. – Environmental and personal health issues Research and Lab activity Personal home inventory and cost savings by switching to CFL’s Educating parents and the community with PowerPoint presentations.

The next several slides are a sample of student work as well as sample activity sheets.

CFL’s + use 75% less energy + last ten times longer + create less heat - contains mercury - takes longer to warm up Parts of a CFL 5/11/09 [image] ex.cfm?c=cfls.pr_cfls_about Student- Matt Lang

Incandescent bulbs + brighter + used for heating + no mercury - use more energy - don’t last as long Light bulb structure 5/13/2009 [image] Student – Matt Lang

INCANDESCENT Heats tungsten filament to produce light Cheaper per bulb More expensive to use More energy required to run Efficiency as low as 10% Same technology as the year 1871 Student- Allen Bolden

Differences Between CFL’s and Incandescent Bulbs Student – Derek Bartmess

The Envirotech Light Bulb Test Student – Ricky Arbaugh

My Lighting Cont’d Currently there are 23 incandescent bulbs in my house. If these were replaced with CFL’s, the savings would equate to a savings of dollars per year. Savings calculated at Calculator/LightCalcCSP.asp Student – Allen Bolden

My Own Lighting My home currently uses only fluorescent and CFL lighting Student – Quentin Bloomfield

How We Can Help The Ohio Department of Natural Resources maintains a map of recycling and waste management services. OSU offers guidance on how to properly dispose of household hazardous waste Office of Compliance Assistance and Pollution Prevention gives a fact sheet on mercury in the household Student – Quentin Bloomfield

The class studied alternative energy and then constructed one source- a Wind turbine.

Student built wind Turbine