The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) currently uses a cogeneration facility that uses methane gas to supply electricity and heat to the campus. Although the cogeneration facility saves eight million dollars a year, the use of methane gas does not follow the goals of carbon neutrality within the UC campuses (“Energy Management”). A non-carbon producing, alternative source of energy is needed to help reach this goal. By following the first solution from Bending the Curve, the use of electric producing algae can replace the consumption of methane gas. Using electric producing algae not only creates a carbon neutral way to produce energy, but it also removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and purifies waste water (Gajda et al.). …show more content…
Another problem that electric producing algae has is that it is still relatively expensive compared to other sources of energy like solar. This process is currently using expensive catalyst like platinum, to decrease price, a cheaper alternative is required (Lobato et al.). These three problems turn people away from investing in electric producing algae because there are many alternatives that can have better efficiency. However, with more efficient algae, it can provide more than just energy. Compare to other sources of alternative energy, electric producing algae has the most benefits of them all. If UCSD is completely dependent on electric producing algae, it would stop two million tons of carbon per year per acre from polluting the atmosphere (Lane, “Where are we with algae biofuel?”). Although other sources of renewable energy would be able to do this, algae would be better in the long run. Through photosynthesis, oxygen is created in exchange of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This will help lower the overall concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because algae can act as a sink for carbon in the atmosphere. This process would result in a net negative production of carbon dioxide. Not only algae can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, it can also treat waste water. Algae feeds off from the nutrient in the waste water and in exchange, human
For this week’s essay, instead of writing an explicit analysis, this assignment felt more like a personal reflection, an approach that seemed more appropriate for Orsi’s work, History and Presence. Out of all the books read this semester, I will admit, I read this one with the most caution and restraint. The truth of the matter is I am unable to separate myself from the stories he tells (or at least pretend that I am). Too often while reading this book did the flashbacks of my own upbringing and current life implant themselves on the page, in one instance causing me to tear up. This essay will indeed be analytic, no doubt, however, it will be very personal as well, quite possibly a trial to further lay down the foundation of the scholarship of presence.
Drinking age is not a strange phrase in our lives. Every time when we go to club or buy some liquor, we have to show our photo ID to prove that we have already 21 and we are legal to drink wine. I think this is a really good method to control drinking problem. Before I read these two articles which are “The 21-Year-Old Drinking Age: I Voted for it, It Doesn’t Work” by Dr. Morris E. Chafetz and “The Drinking Age of 21 Saves Lives” by Toben F. Nelson and Traci L. Toomey, I only felt that when people grow up they will have self-control to hold their desire for drinking and could decide whether it is appropriate to drink at that moment. I didn’t collect any data or information to support my opinion,
It is also more self sufficient, less expensive to grow, and more beneficial to the environment than both of those plants. Unfortunately, it is costly to make a perfect growing environment for algae to be grown at its highest growth rate (www.worldwatch.org). Luckily, algae can be grown anywhere as long as the environment around it is controlled. For example, if you took all the non tillable land in China, Brazil, and the U.S and grew algae on it and used it for biofuel, it would be able to make up for 30 percent of all the energy needed for all those nations combined (phys.org, may 26 2014). That's 2 billion people with 30 percent of their energy needs and their government’s energy needs taken care of. It won’t be the “cure” for energy crisis sadly because it is too expensive to grow enough algae for the whole world. It will help slow down the use of fossil fuels and oils luckily, because according to instituteforenergyresearch.org more than half of the world's oil supplies will be used up by 2030 (2014). Algae can be used for more than just
Carbon emissions are changing the planet for the worse. Energy production (mostly coal) is producing a one third of the US 's global warming emissions. Renewable sources produce little to zero percent. The balance of coal and renewable energy in the U.S. needs to be evened out with renewable techniques. Statistics from the Union of Concerned Scientist’s “Benefits of Renewable Energy Use” show that most renewable resources emit less than one pound of CO2E/kWh. These have significantly less of a carbon footprint than coal, which emits 1.4 to 3.6 lbs. CO2E/kWh or natural gas, which emits .6 to 2 lbs. CO2E/kWh. This impressive difference of carbon emissions between renewable and fossil fuel is the key to caring for our environment. A 2009 USC study found that if 25 percent of the US 's
2. Again, review the DFDs you developed for the Petrie's Electronics case. (I have placed the level 1 diagrams in the Project Workbook - Week 3 folder in doc sharing, use your homework solution for the Record Customer Activities level 1) .
The obvious advantages of renewable energy are that they do little or no harm to the environment. They produce minimal
Analyze how the author signals the use of these elements through language. For example, word choices, transitions, or logical connections
Lois is a 32 year married woman and has three children; two boys aged 8 years and 5 years, and a 3-year old girl. She was born into a middle class Portuguese family. She represents a non-linear education trajectory. She completed her basic schooling when she was 15 years old, and joined high school. However, she had to drop out due to financial difficulties. Following this, she started working as a waitress in a restaurant. She left the job after two years, and has been working in a local lodge as a helper (waiter, housekeeper) since then. She represents a linear working class trajectory. She met her husband when she started working in the lodge. At the time of their first meetings, he was working as a local guide for the guests of the lodge. Lois got married to him when she was 22 and he was 25 years old. She had her eldest son when she was 23. She had been living with her parents until the time she got married.
In life, I have stated that I am willing to try almost anything. This is generally true, moreover, I love new experiences and the insights that they give me, but there were a few activities that I was still unwilling to try for a variety of reasons. I have always been curious about anal penetration. It was always something that I said I would NEVER do, but there was still something that intrigued me about it. Over the course of the last few years, I have slowly started to become more open to trying it. I thought through my hesitations about it and realized that I felt as though it was predominantly societal pressure not to do it, which was ultimately stopping me. Furthermore, I am a firm believer in not letting other people’s views on me
Discourses have powerful social effects and can empower some, while marginalizing others. In the texts Lost Property and Muriel’s Wedding the dominant discourse is relationship. The audience is positioned to see Josh Tambling from Lost Property as having tough relationships as he is the one who is expected to pull through. While Muriel Heslop from Muriel’s Wedding is portrayed as unreliable and selfish as the story is told.
At some point in our lives, we all have desired Power, but what is power exactly? And why everyone these days seems to pursue it no matter what? For example, Donald Trump a powerful entrepreneur, a business man; not having enough with his success, now trying to be the leader of an entire nation.
Vishal Sathish - 60% Outside Reading Project - Literary Analysis Essay Life is meant to face struggles and is judged by how well handling the situation is. Struggles are handled in various ways as though they can lead to a solution similarly as both selections, The Fault In Our Stars and A Real Case, use to convey the theme. Though John Green’s novel, The Fault In Our Stars, compares to Sara Holbrook’s poem, A Real Case, by similar themes of facing life’s struggles, they as well differ when it comes to the types of struggle.
As we have learned by defining truth and how it is based on an unwavering and dogmatic stance, which is faith in God—Love, and is absolute. Absolute truth starts with God and ends with God, truth looks at the Bible for what it is and what it says, and not with independence or interpretation. Now, what is “good” and can we define it? In the American society, it is evident that individuals want to brand “good” as personally defined and not absolute, however, for something to be truly “good”, it has to be “good” for the whole world, meaning it cannot constantly change between persons. Therefore, what is “good” must be defined by something unchanging, for that reason, what
The author arguments tell us that Alberti and the Donatello “Gattamelata” attracted lots of people points of view. For example, Alberti treatise called “De Equo Animante” and Donatello famous statue monument the “Gattamelata”. Overall, this sources effect the Greek, Roman, and the humanist source which include the visual that the artist applied to the visual and literary. Both, the visual and literary that applied to the masterpiece of “Gattamelata” using the classical view. This includes the myth that the artist applied. In this case, the University of Chicago press wrote that “Gattamelate” the piece include the “Medusa head on the breastplate of Gattamelata Lorica”. On the Other hand, many people from other place seem to like the piece as
1) Describe Plenitude's position in the US market in the early 1996. Why has it apparently been less successful in the US than in France when the French "success" formula was used in the US?