Resource Consumption and Energy Production

Solar energy

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  • For two weeks in December 2015, the residents of the Chinese capital of Beijing, a single city home to more people than any US state except California or Texas, had a “Red Alert” for air pollution.

    Thick smog from factories and the more than 5 million cars in the region had made the air unsafe for people to be outside and the government was forced to close schools and limit travel to keep the 22 million residents from being exposed to dangerous amounts of toxins in the air they were breathing.

    Anyone who dared to venture outside wore protective masks over their faces in an attempt to limit the damage this severe pollution caused to their body. This is an extreme example of human dependence on fossil fuels, but it’s exactly the kind of situation that scientists around the world have been trying to prevent by researching the potential of clean sources of energy to replace the coal and oil fuels that cause the pollution found in Beijing and elsewhere.

    In this learning scenario you will learn how to install a mini solar panel, know how it works and control its power generation through sensors.

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Wind energy

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  • In this challenge, we propose to watch the film "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind".

    In this film, William Kamkwamba, the protagonist, is a young schoolboy from a farming family in Malawi. William has a talent for fixing radios for his friends and neighbours, and spends his spare time searching the local junkyard for salvageable electronic components.

    In the mid-2000s, the family's crops fail due to drought and the resulting famine devastates William's village, sparking riots over government rationing.

    To save his village from the drought, William devises a plan to build a windmill to power the village's broken water pump. His small prototype works successfully, but to build a larger windmill, William needs his father, Trywell, to give him permission to dismantle the family bicycle for parts, which is the only bicycle in the village and the family's last major asset.

    With the help of his friends and the few remaining members of the village, they build a full-sized windmill that allows for successful planting.

    In this learning scenario, the students will analysis of some effects that affect energy production with wind generators.

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  • Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s,

  • It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English.

  • What is Lorem Ipsum?

    Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

    Why do we use it?

    It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

     

    Where does it come from?

    Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

    The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.

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