Inquiry into Sustainable Energy

Students are currently learning about how cities are using waste as source of renewable energy.

To conduct our research on the topic of “waste to energy” the fifth graders visited our city’s recycle center.

Waste-to-energy involves the burning of garbage to produce the heat to spin power turbines; it is thus a type of biomass power generation, and the resulting energy is classified as renewable. Japanese companies are known as global leaders in the field due to their technological prowess!