Hello again my friends. Dr Nebula here with another update for the troops. Kidding. Week sixteen is now behind us, with only about 28 days or so until another year passes. So, while we wait, why not recap on last week's events? This week I worked on my fallout symbol. Monday was scraping off the rest of the rust with steel wool. Tuesday was a lethargic day for me, so I mostly researched the essential question on that day. Wednesday was spraying one side with some black-ish grey primer to keep out rust and keep the final paint on. Thursday was spraying the other side, which is above. Gonna have to tilt your head to the side because the phone is a bad medium to upload photos with.
The essential question of this week was: "how do you get electricity from rotating shaft? How is this movement so important?"
The most basic and efficient way to make electricity in the modern day is to use fossil fuels or coal power. The coal is used to evaporate liquid water to steam. The steam then goes through to a generator. There are rotating blades in this generator in which the steam spins the blades. The blades then spin a shaft, which creates power for a turbine. The turbine moves a magnet inside a coil of copper, in which electric power is produced on a massive scale. This electricity then goes out to power lines, transformers, etc.
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