ENVR 1301- HAELEI TROUT

     What is clean coal? This is a very misleading term, because, hello? There is no such thing as clean coal, there is just a group of people trying to convince us to keep using coal as a resource to create energy. In fact, the term clean coal was popularized in 2008 when climate change was still highly questioned amongst most people . The reason that we use coal is because it is very cost efficient in saving the U.S. a lot of money, but we are allowing the greed of money to dictate our population’s health. But still, what is clean coal? Clean coal is referring to the ways we can try and control the damage that is done from the burning and abstracting of coal. According to the Clean Air Task Force there is an estimated 7,5000 premature deaths every single year just amongst the company workers. The workers however are not the only people at risk, according to a research conducted by Carnegie Mellon, a researcher on the economics and public safety team, babies born in ...

     Natural resources, or energy resources, are products that we can obtain from the Earth. We have renewable and nonrenewable resources. The purest form of renewable energy we get is from the sun, which supplies our planet with 99% of our heat, the other 1% is from commercial use.      Fossil fuels come from the earth and consist of decaying plants and animals. Fossil fuels are how we make some of our commercial energy, however they have terrible impacts on the planet like air pollution which is adding to the issue of global warming, and the fact that they are limited means that they are going to run out, unless we find new ways to use them. 21% of commercial energy in the world is powered by coal, the U.S. alone is at a high 62%. Another fuel that we use is crude oil, which we use to make asphalt, diesel oil, heating oil, jet fuel, and gasoline. In 1970 a barrel of crude oil was about $3, in 2004 it was up to $70. Natural gases are more abundant tha...

 Okay first off, watching this video my mouth literally fell open. It's crazy to think how science can evolve and persuade people to do basically anything... like spray the entire planet with dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane,(DDT) . This video has me scared to take the coronavirus vaccine, but also at the same time I want to trust and believe in science, but look how wrong they were before.. They can be wrong again. That is scary and has me over here sitting in my chair thinking. The video that I selected to write about for this blog posting is written and directed by Michelle Ferrari. The reason that this video was made was to make people aware of how we can think that something will solve one problem, when in reality it is causing more severe and harmful consequences in the long run. In 1939 a scientist named Paul Muller realized that a chemical he had come across, (DDT), was a fantastic insecticide. What dichloro-diphenyl- trichloroethane would do is it would attack the nervous...

  What is energy? Energy is the capacity of a body or system to accomplish work. There are a ton of different forms of energy, whether they be man made or natural occurrences. There are electromagnetic energy waves that are made of radiation frequencies, (photons). We all know what radiation is, it is things like x- rays or UV light from the sun, it is at such high levels of energy being released that it can actually blind the human eye. Another type of energy is Nuclear energy, which is the energy that bonds two atoms together. Nuclear energy is important because everything is made of atoms! The most basic form of energy is kinetic energy, which has to deal with basically everything also, so it is broken down into two categories. Thermal kinetic energy is the actual tiny vibrations that are happening between atoms, and mechanical kinetic energy is when the atoms are in motion. Next we have gravitational energy which describes itself, it is of natural occurrence. When an object goe...

 Monthly Water Amounts Nov. 9,600gal. / Dec. 8,370gal. / Jan. 9,800gal.  9,600 + 8,370 + 9,800 = 27,770/3 months = 9256/month on average Per Person Monthly Water Usage 3 People in house 9256/3 = 3085gallons/person/month Per Person Daily Water Usage 3085/30 = 102 gallons per day My Household Online Water Usage (134 Amber Ash, Kyle, Texas, 78640) Name of Water Calculator /      URL      / My Per Person Usage   City of Kyle Utilities /  Water Department | City of Kyle, Texas - Official Website  / 103 gallons/day/per person Public Utility Commissions of Texas /  Water Address Search (texas.gov)  / 94 gallons/day/per person   Water District Database /  Search the Water Districts Database (WDD) (texas.gov)  / 111 gallons/day/per person Summary  I fond out that my household use about same amount of water as the average American family per month based on my utility bill. This is a little bit of a surprise ...

      In 2009 the Alamo district colleges signed into the American College and University Presidents' climate committee. The purpose of this committee is study ways to be c arbon neutrality by 2050, and it expects to reduce carbon emissions by 30% by 2020. In addition to carbon reduction, they are also targeting towards going into a more "green" future by reducing electricity consumption by 5% every year. The colleges have come up with many ways to help the students and the surrounding community become more environmental friendly, by offering varieties of transportation to classes, reducing the usage of water on campus, expanding the curriculum and moving towards solar energy, plus many other things.     One of the ways the colleges are helping with sustaining the environment is by recycling water. Water is one of the Earth's natural resources that we take for granted, but luckily we have found ways to reuse it. One way to reus...

  Blog Name: I named my blog ENVR 1301 – HAELEI TROUT Blog Set Up: My blog is public and accepts comments. Blog Posting (Home page posting): At a minimum I wrote about: What I Most Look Forward to in My Environmental Science Class What I Think This Class Will Be About URL: My blog address is: https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/4294326359443079319?pli=1 Professionalism: I read my postings out loud. I have no errors in writing, grammar, capitalization, style, tone, or organization. I wrote at a college level.  AND,  I turned my work in on time. WHAT I LOOK FORWARD TO THE MOST: I really am excited to hear everyone’s opinions on how we can resolve some of the issues our planet is facing. One person can’t figure it out, it takes an entire team so I hope to learn from not only our professor, but from you guys as well!  WHAT I THINK THIS CLASS IS ABOUT- learning about the balances and requirements to get our planet back to being more stable so it will be able to still ...