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Peter Anderson and I collaborated last year on some electricity exhibits that were going to focus on alternate means for generating electricity. We wanted to focus on solar power and PV cells and ran up against this very idea. We were against it because we didn't see the value of "visitor as the energy source"; we wanted to emphasize "visitor as clever energy harvester." We thought a better, deeper engagement would involve the visitor engineering a design solution such that a vehicle would meet some expectation (number of laps, highest speed, greatest towing power) with whatever solar energy was available. This was deemed to be more of a program than an exhibit. Peter and I rolled our eyes at the final exhibit in which visitors have to move mesh clouds out from between PV cells and a light source to make an LED light meter light up.  


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