Overview
Solar panels. Wind turbines. Hydropower. Fuel cells. Biomass products. These are just a few of the alternative energy technologies you can try out in this exhibit. Play "energy watt" pinball. Calculate your personal carbon footprint. Add up the savings of certain "smart energy" behaviors. And tour virtual town settings to measure the effect of our "energy" uses and how they impact the triple bottom line of people, planet and profits.
Climate Change Theater
It's not often you get schooled about the effects of global warming by a sheep. But who better to give us a perspective on what's happening with the earth's environment than an animal? Our 30-seat, 4D object theater provides a sensory extravaganza, complete with booming thunderstorm and actual rainy mist (that's the fourth dimension), as our farmyard narrator dishes out a 20-minute presentation that's anything but woolly.
Renewable City
Throughout the Smart Energy Gallery we've created hands-on interactive exhibits arranged in the context of an imaginary city featuring home, school, factory and office settings that are both familiar and intriguing. Open doors, pull knobs, push buttons and pick up objects to learn how much energy was used to make them. You'll even gauge the results of the alternative energy technologies being used by the Science Center itself.