Charging a Bluetooth Speaker Using Chicken Compost Microbe Powered Earth Batteries
Energy and Change- Grade:
- 8
- Teacher:
- Lorraine York
My project is to engineer a form of clean energy using the electricity produced by the microbes inside of chicken compost. I chose this project because I had heard about how Earth Batteries are a form of clean energy, and I was really looking for a challenge that could use something that was already at my house for another purpose. It just happened to be my chicken compost. My result was that I was able to power the small speaker. In the future, I would like to figure out how to further gain voltage from my current 10 two-gallon buckets, without having to get and fill more. Sadly, there hasn’t been much information to go off of since this is a relatively new way of energy production and not many people have figured out how to get enough energy from these batteries to power much. Because of this, I plan to expand more on maximizing the possibilities of powering objects of many different voltages without having to use a whole lot of material. This is important because it could a source of clean energy in the future and could lower the cost of electricity fees once a stable system is set up. Keywords: chicken compost, microbes, clean energy, Earth Batteries, lower cost energy