Built by Snap Circuit, the Elenco Alternative Energy Kit is a versatile, experiment-ready kit that makes it easy to complete real-world electronics projects. The kit offers many of the latest technologies in the field of alternative energy. The kit helps you develop over 125 projects related to innovative toys and educational devices. The flexibility of award-winning Snap Circuits® provides an innovative approach to green energy learning, development, and how we can harness the electricity generated in our homes. The kit comes with a crank generator, solar panel, and wind turbine, allowing kids to light up LEDs, power a clock, charge batteries, power a small radio, and track the electricity generated on an analog meter. The kit can be integrated with other Snap Circuit kits to create innovative toys and electronic devices.
The kit includes a full-color manual with over 100 pages of stand-alone instructional materials. The educational manual includes explanations of the following green energy sources: geothermal, hydrogen fuel cells, wind, solar, tidal, hydroelectric, and more.