Solar Energy is the Cooler Energy

In my fuel class we talked about how the CO2 level is rising out of balance and certain thing humans are doing to pollute the earth and how these pollutants effect it. We read a book called raising elijah which talked about a mother and her discovers of dangerous chemicals. For this AP we created a video to present to companies persuading them to switch to clean energy. Un fortunately the program used to record does not work on my computer so the slideshow is all I have.

Its Not Cool To Use Coal

This is my Fuel course at GCE Lab School. In this course we research non-renewable resources and how this is currently affecting us everyday. We also talk about renewable resources and how we can use those more often. For this Action Project I got to pick one non-renewable resource and research about it, then created a slideshow about this resource and how it affects us everyday.

Weather is Changing

There are Women too

“We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination” -Nelson Mandela. Gender equality effects to many to much and this is something that must be changed soon. Now in our current state we have made big changes since 100 years ago but I want to show you where we really are. For example purposes I am going to compare two countries, America and Ukraine. How far both countries are doing with domestic violence, marriage choices, and healthcare for women.

jill111,Women in Sunset,April 7 2008,Pixabay

America

Domestic violence is probably the biggest problem america is facing. Of all domestic violence suffered in america 85% of victims are women. 38,028,000 women are abused everyday and 3 women die from it everyday all by current or former spouses. Marriage choice is not a problem in america. If a women does not want to marry a man than she has every right to chose not to.

Ukraine

As much as I looked I could not find any statistics on marriage choices in Ukraine, but taking into mind that Ukraine has sex trafficking I would bet that women are being forced to marry by their owner. Not only does Ukraine suffer from domestic violence but also suffer from large amounts of sex trafficking. It’s so bad that in 2007 a Ukrainian women started a hot-line called La Strada for women who are being abused. Since it’s starting calls have doubled.

Clean or Dirty Water is Water

This is my Water class at GCE lab school. In this unit we studied how to purify water and the pH scale. For our action project we had to create a filter. I had to measure the pH before and after being filtered.

For my filter I required 5 things

• 2 plastic bottles

• 1 mesh pad

• Sand 

• Gravel 

First I cut the top off of one of the plastic bottles so I had a place to put in the water and build the filter. I then put a mesh at the bottom to make sure that the next step will work. Then I put in the mixture of gravel and sand. I would alternate mixing and would slightly shake the bottle so the sand and gravel would mix and getting rid of air pockets. Once the bottle was full and place on top of the water catching system I began the process by pouring in the water. It took a while for water to begin to come through the bottom because the sand was not wet. Once the water began to finally filter it was apparent that my filter was as about as effective as blowing on a bonfire. The water came out with sand in it. The blue filter on the bottom did not do its job completely or effectively and let sand get though and fall into the catching

PH was 4.0 before and after the filtration process so no change was made to the acidic level of the water. This water is on the lower side of the scale which makes it questionable if you can drink it considering that 7.0 is the perfect level and this is 4.0.

With the pH of 4.0 I can convert that to H to see what the hydrogen level is. 4.0 converts to 0.0001 meaning that there is a very low amount of hydrogen inside the water also lowering the quality of the drink.

LM,Before Water,2016

IF, Filter, 2016

IF, After filter water, 2016

LM. (2016). Filter Drawing.

Save Your Water, You Never Know When The Well Will Run Dry

I am a student at GCE lab school, and one of my classes is water. In Water class we learn about the water crisis all over the world. Our class is always trying to understand what being in a water crisis is like, so we can think of better ways to help the community in trouble. To first understand what it was like we had to figure out how much water we personally use everyday. Most of the class was towards the 60 gallon range while I only use 13.36 gallons everyday. We then took a trip to a nearby river, filled up containers and brought them back to the school. Most of us only brought back around 10 gallons each which would be nowhere close to what we normally use on a daily basis. 

My experience carrying water was not fun to say the least. At the beginning I grabbed a large blue storage container which now I regret doing. The river was only 0.3 miles away and I was confident that thanks to my past skills from working on a farm, this would be no problem. As we got to the river I assisted in the process of raising the water from the river and pouring it into buckets. Along the way we thought of other more easy and creative ways to fill, carry and not spill. Once the buckets were all filled we began the journey back to the school. Along the way somehow water was added to my container because other people did not want to carry theirs, but I also gained help along the way from my. Although we lagged behind most of the way back we got the most water back to the school.

When it was all said and done I think between the four of us we each carried around 7-10 gallons. That’s almost my entire daily water usage of 13.36.

For the trip I took I brought back around 10 gallons and for an average French person using around 72 gallons a day, that would mean It would take a french person to make 7.2 trips for water everyday.

With all of the weight of carrying seven trips of ten gallons you would require more drinking water so you would not die from lack of body water.

What the world really needs to do is just get along and share because at this rate we are all going to go extinct and we are acting like a bunch of 2 year olds not wanting to share toys. The world needs to grow up and get rid of capitalism and corrupt politics.

LM, (2016), Pie Chart.

LM, (2016), Poster