Heroes

Gain enough energy to save the Arcadian solar discovery tour!

Free online adventure game will teach kids the basic principles of ways to produce electric energy.

A space exploration mission from another galaxy turns into an attempt to harness human knowledge so the crew can return home. Stevie, Sky, and Robbie fly to the Solar System on a sightseeing tour and are forced to land on Earth after an accident. In a spaceship low battery, they set out to find fuel (tritium) for the ship's fusion reactor.

But they barely find enough energy in the power plants to recharge their spaceship. They are not even sure that people already know about atomic energy. In the final scene, they help the researchers ignite a burning nuclear fusion reaction that can produce enough tritium for their return home.

What will children learn?

1) The Sun
and thermonuclear fusion

This star can directly convert 4 million tons of matter into energy every second. It simply radiates energy into space in the form of heat, light, and other types of radiation. Only 0.45 billionths of this falls on planet Earth. Despite this, the Sun is responsible for the majority of all energy that people use today.

The Sun

2) Planet Earth
in a solar system context

The age and geological composition of the Earth, the origin and development of life, the Earth's atmosphere, and the state of water are necessary conditions for life. Earth's size compared to other planets and distance from the Sun.

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Solar system

3) Mankind and electric energy

What does electrical energy mean to mankind? What do they know about its production methods and what will its production look like in the future? Children gradually become familiar with the basic sources of electricity production.

Lighthouse
Game Plan
Boiler

4) Fossil fuels and combustion

How were coal, oil, and natural gas formed? What is combustion and how can it be used to produce electricity? Rankine cycle principle and steam power, what does a steam turbine look like? How does an electric generator work? Why does coal have to be crushed and why is it burned together with air?

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Kaplan turbine

5) Energy of flowing water

Kinetic energy of water, turbine, dam. Oil pump, electric generator, distributor blades, impeller blades, Kaplan turbine, control gate. How to get electricity from running water?

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Heliostat

6) Photovoltaic effect

What is the photovoltaic effect? How can the sun's rays be directly converted into electricity? What does a solar power plant look like and how does it work, what are its advantages and disadvantages? How do heliostats work and why?

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Wind turbine

7) Wind energy

What does a wind farm look like and how does it work? How is it assembled and what are the main components of a wind turbine? Propeller blade rotation drive, bearing, gearbox, electric generator, anemometer.

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Primary circuit

8) Nuclear fission

Changing the fuel in a nuclear reactor will allow us to look into the most important equipment of a nuclear power plant. What does the core of a reactor with fuel assemblies look like? Where does the water flow in the primary circuit? How is the steam that turns the turbine generated?

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Tokamak

9) Thermonuclear fusion laboratory

Coulomb barrier, the difference between fission and fusion, Tokamak magnetic fusion reactor, diverter, first wall, stability coils, ports, NBI system.

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Simopt
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Project team

Petr Sovadina, Tomas Pan, Pavel Stupka, Tomas Svoboda, Lukas Jindra, Dusan Vargoncik, Michael Sovadina, Jan Jirmus, Edita Bromova, Keith Enns, Michaela Enns, Michal Steinz