Magnetic Cars



School Name: Sherwood Heights School
Team Size: 1 or 2
Grade Category: 4-6
ProjectType: Experimental
Subject Area: Environmental Issues
Language: English
Team Captain First Name: Hafeez
Team Captain Last Name: Rajwani
Awards Obtained: First Place For School Science Project 2005
Special Skills Used: HTML
Project Title: Magneto's Motion
Project Abstract: The purpose of this project is to find out if motion can be achieved by magnetic power alone. I came up with this myself. This is because our dependency on fossil fuels that pollute our environment needs to be reduced. My hypothesis is that motion can be achieved this way. For my project, I used various magnets and materials such as wood and metal to build prototypes.
These magnetic cars are a huge step to peace. They use no electricity whatsoever! Electricity being made is probably the second worst way of polluting. Even though I admit that these cars might be a little slower now, but would you rather our beautiful Earth be violently destroyed? I personally think it is worth it, and so should you! Cars are the main cause of pollution and greenhouse gases damaging the sun protective ozone layer. They also kill wildlife and plants. These new cars don’t pollute or do any of these horrible things. My magnetic cars are my current project, but believe it or not I came up first with magnetic vehicles. Other companies make “Maglev trains” as well. I think mine are better, because they don’t need large quantities of energy and electricity, as well as metal, and since they are not using electromagnets, they don’t have harmful effects on the body and its iron. However, I cannot make my car go as fast as the Concord Jet! The magnetic car is truly amazing. A magnet controlled by a lever going to the dashboard will be pushed to a forward position. Its magnetic force field will push off another magnet attached to the car, and they’re off! I think it is amazing the push can make the weight roll off, perfectly controlled. The levers have to be strong, though, because they can’t break at all cost! A “Maglev train” could work similarly, and there are lots of ways to push it using electricity, which is not the purpose of this project. See a chart for more information. Even though these are pretty good, just like the gasoline car, it is likely they will evolve into cool, fast, controllable to the max vehicles. It is also likely that I can use magnets power to fix up other major polluters, another step to peace! Some other projects I can work on are using magnet power to repair the ozone layer, which I don’t know yet how to do. Maybe I could use magnets to power other major polluters previously mentioned. Some of these are factories of all kinds, chemicals such as hairsprays of any kind or pesticides. Dumps are another major polluter that can probably be fixed only by recycling and not using the garbage system. Please, any ideas can help. If you have a good idea, be proud! Maybe one day, the world’s fate will be yours to decide, good or bad. If you want to help, but don’t have any ideas, there are still a lot of things you can do. Recycling is simple and effective to stop both factories and dumps in their polluting tracks! If you recycle over and over, mining, the ripping apart of earth, fuelled by gasoline, will stop. Then factories will stop with nothing to make. There will be nothing to put in the dumps, which can easily be recycled. What about their jobs you might say, well they can work at a new recycling plant or magnetic car factory. Too much work? You can just reuse items, less shopping! When you get food, make sure the package is reusable or recyclable. Another way is that you could reduce the amount of electricity, water, and food you use, it still helps quite a bit if everyone does. One of the most important ways to help is to not pollute, no matter what, there is no good from it. Try to pick up litter, but it not worth getting viruses over it, therefore be careful and try to get other people to do the same thing. You could donate to good organizations and people like the Tsunami Aid places. Last but not the least you can encourage good people like me!

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