RECYCLED CELL PHONES CAN PROVIDE ENERGY?

Post-Tribune Staff Report. Phone Recycling Urged.(2010, April 6). Local News Retrieved from http://www.post-trib.com/news/2141811,cellrecycle0406.article

Link: http://www.post-trib.com/news/2141811,cellrecycle0406.article


This article really caught me eyes because in the first sentence it said that recycling one cell phone is enough energy to power a laptop for 44 hours!! WOW!! In this article if Americans would recycle 130 million cell phones, enough energy would be saved to power more than 24,000 homes in a year. That is a lot of homes. Only about 10 percent of cell phones are being recycle nowadays. So hey guys maybe if you want to get rid of your old phone, so you can get a new smart-phone, instead of just throwing your old phone away recycle them, and as you are recycling them think about how much energy your are saving and even providing to homes, or using to power laptop and other things..

National Power Grid

National Power Grid, (05 August 1st). Issue & Controversies on file. Retrieved April 5th, 2010, from Issue & Controversies Database.

Link: http://www.2facts.com/icof_story.aspx?PIN=i1000170&term=energy#i1000170_1


Electricity unlike other source of power, cannot be keep in storage, since it exist solely as current. Electricity is transported from power plants to homes, school, business and other places through a multi-process steps. Electricity is generated at power plants that produce energy by burning coal. After this steps electricity is purchase by a local utility, the company that distributes the electricity to local consumers. Utilities, which play a critical role in the nations electricity industry. there are more than 2,000 pubilicy owned utilities around the country. These companies are run by the federal government, they do not generate or distribute electricity for profit.

Hydroelectric Energy

Hydroelectric Energy, (04, April 14th). Issue & Controversies on file. Retrived April 4, 2010, from Issue & Controversies Database.


Link: http://www.2facts.co/icof_story.aspx?PIN=i0502440&term=energy


Some hydroelectric dams generate energy from ocean tides, but the vast majority are in rivers and streams. Hydroelectric dam operators can change the flow of water through pen stocks in order to increase the amount of electricity that is generated, or to prevent flooding downstream. Most dams are also fitted with spillways, which allow water to spill over the tops of the dams when reservoirs become full. Hydroelectric energy is still widely considered to be a clean alternative to fossil fuels such as petroleum and coal. Many observers like myself have come to see dams as a swerious threat to the enviornment. Many sport fishing groups oppose to dams for causing dwindling fish populations.

"Where I Lived and What I Live For"

This essay was a really good essay. There was certain parts that i really liked. I really like how he went out in the woods and try and compare his life to the outside world. David Thoreau says, "why should we live with such hurry and waste life of time?" I really liked this quote because in the real world we do live life with such a hurry and sometimes i feel we waste time on a lot of things. This essay was really hard to understand but i kind of understood it and i can tie it in the with way we waste energy in this world. He talks about living in the woods and living in the real world and he compare its. He says"be it life of death, we only crave reality." This quote caught my eye to because he is talking about how we only listen to things we heard and we don't try and get the obvious. This essay can tie in to my research about energy because i feel like people in this countries waste a lot of energy and they do live life with such a hurry.

Classmates Energy Respone

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California offshore wind energy potential

I really like this blog. I didn't know that california had offshore wind generators. When i think about all these states it didn't come to mind that california is the state that try to get energy without damaging the enviorment. Max Stated. I have always taught that since so much people go in and out of california and it is such a tourist place that they didn't really care where they got their energy from but i guess i am wrong. I also like how these generators generate so much energy to the whole state and it is located on the water but not in deep water. Max says "" A single proposed wind farm near Cape Mendocino could deliver an average 800MW of gross renewable power...". That is a lot of energy. It also says that wind generators protect the environments because it has low gas, and carbon. This was really interesting to me. I really like the way he did this blog.

5 HOURS ENERGY DRINKS AND COFFEE!!!! BAD!!!!

Energy drinks are bad for you period. I personally don't drink energy drinks and i wouldn't recommend you to drink it. Energy drinks are full of so much weird ingredients that is supposed to make you feel like you awake when your tired. All energy drinks do for you is make you more sleepy after you have drinking them. It makes you feel awake for a short amount of time and then you crash and then you use more energy in your body to try and make you get through the day. Just like coffee. Coffee has a stimulating effect in the human body and that why so much people like it. People think coffee gives them energy to make it through the day when it actually doesn't. So instead of drinking energy drinks and coffee why don't you grab yourself some water or even some juice.You will noticed that you will have more energy to get through the day.

U.S. Ethanol Production

Link: http://www.2facts.com/icof_story.aspx?PIN=i1100410&term=Ethanol+Fuel

This chart really interested me because till i read this article i didn't really think the u.s really used a lot of ethanol. This chart shows us the ethanol production in million of gallons. During this time of the chart its shows that only few cars use fuels that blends more with a small percentage of ethanol, but some companies say that eventually they will start producing more cars that can use fuel with ethanol.