By: Rhyanne Javier
So we went to the library for a Blue Planet Foundation presentation. Honestly, I thought
that it was about our solar system, mostly about the planet Neptune because it's the blue planet. When we finally got there, it
wasn't about the planets at all, it was about how much we depended on oil and
the outcome of the amount of oil that we use for our daily lives. Mr. David, our presenter taught us how to use less electricity which means less oil that gets shipped to Hawaii.
I
learned a lot from that one presentation. We depend on oil A LOT and we use
A LOT of money to ship that oil from other places to Hawaii. Now that I know we
depend on oil for our daily lives like electricity, we have to be careful for
how long something is plugged in, and to remember to unplug it because even
though it's off, it's still grabbing some electricity. What I thought was
interesting was how little ice is left compared to 20-30 years ago, and that
icebergs and glaciers are small now compared to how HUGE it was then. Can you imagine Waikiki beach reaching the Alawai canal? Well, just 1 meter of melted ice will do that to our island. We need to make changes NOW to prevent this.
I couldn't believe that when you
trade in your incandescent light bulbs you get a free, energy saving CFL (Compact Flourescent Lightbulb). CFL's are WAY better. Why do we depend on oil so much when we have other great resources
that can be used to run electricity like water, the sun, and wind? Why d0 we
have to depend on non-renewable, unclean resources that costs a lot of money and
pollutes the air? That's why we have solar panels and wind mills. I was also
wondering if the ice will still be there, or will it be all gone 10-20 years from
now?
It's time to make positive changes for a cleaner, brighter future, NOW. Exchange your lightbulbs! A small step for a brighter future!
www.blueplanetfoundation.org
Thanks Rhyanne, I also thought it was about our solar system, so funny! Some people thought it was about global warming which it was also about. I'm glad you mentioned about the phantom energy, do you know how much energy is used when an appliance is plugged in? Does phantom energy use more energy than other appliances? How long will it take for the icebergs to fully melt? I enjoyed reading your blog, it was really informational. F205
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for all the things that you liked! No i don't because actually it grabs different amounts of energy. Let's say a lightbulb, depending on the amount of watts it is, the higher the watts the more energy it grabs. No phantom energy doesn't use more energy than any other appliances because it's turned off so it doesn't grab as much when it's turned off. Well I am not really sure when the iceberg will fully melt, it all depends on what we do to save it, like if we don't stop using a lot of oil it will be quicker than when we do stop using a lot of oil. Thank you for your questions and I can be wrong on the answers.
DeleteThanks Rhyanne, for the great information about the Blue Planet Foundation, I really learned a lot. I now know that in our daily lives we depend on a lot of oil so that is why we should save energy to not only save money but to help our environment. I also learned that CFL means Compact Florescent Lightbulbs, I thought this was important because I have always wondered what it meant and now I know. Another thing I learned is we don't have to depend on oil because we have other useful resources to run electricity like water, sun, and wind. Some questions I had were how much oil do we use each year? How does water, sun, and wind help run electricity? Other that your blog was very fantastic! -Taryn Kanai
ReplyDeleteThank you Taryn for that great question and i actually got an answer. So Hawaii uses 47.2 million barrels of oils year, for an average that's about 129,000 barrels of the oil a day. For your 2nd question the water can run electricity from the stream or running water. Like a fall so let's say niagra falls has running water going down, when it does go down it becomes kinetic energy into what they call a turbine that will go through generator to make electricity.
ReplyDeleteThey call this hydroelectricity. Now for the sun, they usually call it a solar energy or photovoltaic energy. The sun helps runs lot of things, like they help grow plants and our solar panels so we can pay less electricity and the water cycle. Of course the wind, we have windmills that uses the energy of the wind to pump water, but it can also power our homes and other needs of electricity.