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Hamster Energy http://www.technologyreview.coenergy/22103/

Hello Beaver, For Mr. Neal's 10th grade class, I have been forced to send out an email about eco-friendly stuff. This one is about hamster energy.

Hamster's (small Eurasian rodents of the subfamily Cricetinae, especially //Mesocricetus auratus,// having large cheek pouches and a short tail and often kept as a pet or used in laboratory research) sporadic movement could be harnessed and used to power generators. Energy is released whenever a muscle is moved, so small vests containing micro-generators could be used to capture that energy. The amount of power that can be generated by the micro-generators is one nanowatt, which is 1/1,000,000 of a watt. A normal 60 watt light bulb takes about 60 watts to turn on. So, if 60 billion hamsters were moving constantly generating power you could power a single 60 watt light bulb. 60 billion hamsters would probably cost about 300 billion dollars if each hamster cost 5$. So, if a 60 watt light bulb ran for 1,889,168,765,743 years (about 1.9 trillion years), the amount of money that the hamsters cost would be equal to the cost of running the lightbulb light bulb for that many years. Think about it.

statistics:

15.88 cents = 1 watt 60 billion nanowatts = 60 watt lightbulb 10 million hamsters = 1D cell battery 300 billion dollars = 60 billion 5 dollar hamsters running a lightbulb for 1,889,168,765,743 years = 300 billion dollars 1 hamster = 1 nanowatt when moving 1,000,000 nanowatts = watt 180 billion (inches cubed) room = 598,477.871 smoot cubed room hamster = 3 in^3 60 billion hamsters = 180 billion in^3

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/22103/

Tornado Energy

Hello Beaver, For Mr. Neal's 10th grade class, I have been forced to send out a email about eco-friendly stuff. This one is about tornado energy.



Tornadoes are created from hot moist air rising up to colder, crisper air. The air rising is moved by drafts in the air Knowing this, scientists believe that artificial tornadoes could be created. A generator would capture energy from man-made tornadoes contained by giant, open-roofed cylindrical structures. The energy that can potentially be captured from a tornado is enough to power a small city, 200 megawatts. That is the amount of energy 200,000,000,000,000,000 (200 quadrillion) constantly moving hamsters would generate. Think about it.

More info: http://io9.com/#!5020271/freakiest-form-of-alternative-energy-tornadoes http://www.triplepundit.com/2007/11/tornado-power-wild-alternative-energy/

Plastic Water Bottles

 **162,500 Elephants = the weight of U.S. Plastic Bottles in one year**

This is a message to all in the Beaver community. We wanted to inform you about water bottles and how much they are used today. In 2006, 827,000-1,300,000 tons of plastic (PET) water bottles were produced in the U.S. To show what this might compare to I used elephants as an example. One elephant is about 8 tons, which means that 103,375-162,500 elephants would be equivalent in weight. There aren’t even this many asian elephants in the world and is about 1/4-1/5 of the size of the entire elephant population.

One good thing that Beaver Country Day does that many people don't know is that we have single stream recycling. This means that the blue bins in the teachers room are good for both paper and plastics.  Unfortunately, not everyone in the world does this. 76% of water bottles end up in land fills. Once there, it will take hundreds of years to decompose.

Global Warming  What will happen to us?

Hey guys. This is my second email but this time I'd like to inform you about what will happen to us if Global Warming continues. Right now, the City of New York is drowning because you don't care enough about the environment. One of the main worries about global warming is the planet's ocean level. Currently, the water level is rising at a rate of 1.8 mm per year but the rate itself is rising. If Antarctica melts completely than all coastal cities will be under water. Antarctica is not the only place we need to worry about melting though. There is also the North pole, Greenland, and other northern countries. If the north pole and these countries melt than most of the world will be under water.

Beaver is only 59.5 meters above sea level. This means that we will be under water before all of Antarctica even melts.

The light blue is glacier and the rest is land but it is still covered in feet of snow and ice. The red in the second picture will all be underwater is the water level rises only two meters.

Credible Sources

Cleanair.org is a very credible source. Cleanair.org is about the Clean Air Council. The Clean Air Council is a council devoted to raising awareness about being green. There is a president, multiple vice presidents, a management, and a very large amount of staff members. The web site constantly being updated. The web site is not trying to sell something so they would have no reason to make a false statement. It is also very factual and detailed. They have a huge list of sources and give out there contact information.

For my second credible source I found a National Geographic’s article on global warming. National Geographic is well known and respected company. It is so well known that they have tv shows, movies, and magazines.National Geographic’s goal is to teach. National Geographic teaches about wild life, the environment and much more. National Geographic is also still being updated. Like the first website National Geographic is extremely factual and detailed.