2015 4th 6-weeks Journal Pages

Welcome to APES 1/6 O – 1/7 W Welcome Back!

1. Look at 3 of the ads around the room from The Economist. For each of the ads do the following:

a) Write the number of the ad and a complete sentence summary of what the company is selling or how they are trying to portray themselves.

b) What topic on the topic outline is this ad from? (if you are missing your topic outline there are extras by the outside window)

2. If The Economist is looking at trends for next year, what do these ads say about the relevance of APES topics in the business world?

3. How might you be able to use your APES background to get further with your future employment goals?

Reviewing our Academic Community of Integrity (ACI)

Look at the blue core values of ACIs on your desk and answer the following questions:

1.What two values do you think are most critical for a high achieving ACI (aka this block)?

2.What value do you feel our class most strongly demonstrates? Why?

3.What value do you think our class should work to strengthen this semester? Why?

Welcome to APES 1/8 O – 1/9 WPlease copy the following questions into your

journal:1. How are solar lights distributed in parts of

Tanzania? 2. How much does the cheapest solar light cost? 3. Why are some people skeptical to buy the solar

products offered? 4. Why do teachers act as distributors for the

Sunny Money solar lights?

5. What are some troubles the Sunny Money team face as they try to distribute their product?

6. Is Sunny Money’s solar distribution successful?

Solar Leap-Frogging in Tanzania

http://www.ashden.org/media/films/2613/watch

Welcome to APES 1/12 O, 1/13 WLook at the yellow sheet on your desk. Please

copy it (INCLUDING THE QUESTIONS) into your journal, and match the type of solar with the appropriate description!

• Warm- Up - Match the type of solar to the appropriate description:• Passive solar energy• Flat-plate solar collectors• Photovoltaic solar cells/collectors• Concentrating solar power (CSP)• 1. _______ Used for large scale electricity generation (for many homes and businesses by a

power utility) • 2. _______ Planting vegetation on the side of a house that gets the most sun in the summer

to keep the house cooler. • 3. _______ Heating hot water for a home’s solar hot water heater. • 4. _______ Placing more windows on the north side of the house to maximize solar heat in

the winter. • 5. _______ Generating electricity for one home or business to use• 6. _______ Solar troughs and solar power towers are examples of technology used for this

type of power.• 7. _______ Today’s lab is an example of this type of solar technology

Welcome to APES 1/14 O, 1/15 WBiodigesters! Take some brief notes over the

short biodigester presentation.

Please turn your lab into the box! - Paperclip your rubric on the front

What’s the basic energy problem in developing counties?

Using natural gas for cooking, heating, and heating water requires methane be brought to people’s houses using pipes.

Most developing countries, or some developed countries in rural areas, don’t have this pipe infrastructure.

What is done currently?

Without methane infrastructure, people burn wood or coal in stoves (50% of the people in developing countries).

Bad because:1.Many more home fires/burns2.Huge indoor air pollution problem with

particulates and incomplete combustion–2 million excess deaths per year, 4% of global

health burden (WHO facts)

What is a biodigester?Uses decompostion of organic wastes (specifically

food and animal dung) to produce methane!$140 to install, including biodigester and pipes to

home. Simple pipe from biodigester to home stove/water heater.

Biofuels on a local scale!!

Reliable source of methane for home, no need for indoor wood/coal burning stove. Local production only – for one household or business.

Welcome to APES 1/16 O 1/20 WDaily objective: Renewable energy – wind

energy, hydroelectric, ocean waves and tidal, geothermal (V:G)

Dams! Take some brief notes over the short dams/dam removal presentation.

Please also copy downthe red questions intoyour journal!

• In the U.S., there are over 80,000 dams 9 ft tall or taller.

• Most are small and privately owned, and used to power mills/factories – aging and obsolete

• Concerns about upkeep, safety, and repermitting costs have made many liabilities

Dam Removal

As the cost of maintaining older dams more than continuing to use them, so many being removed

- Over 60 per year being removed, over 1,000 removed in U.S – mostly in Midwest and east

- Larger dams starting to be removed out west, cost and Endangered salmon species benefits

Problems with Dams

• Reduce downstream water, silt, nutrients, changing ecosystems

• Fish can’t spawn, causing decline in species (55% of spawning grounds blocked by dams)

Elwha River

• 2 dams removed/being removed (powered only 40% of single paper mill)

• Largest ever, Glines Canyon Dam, 210 ft tall• 3 threatened/endangered fish• Formerly 400,000 salmon from 10 different

species used watershed for spawning• 83% of river in protected National Park – 70

miles of salmon habitat

Glines Canyon Dam

Two methods of dam removal:1. Piece by Piece

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQusj6tD97w

2. Big Bad Hole Explosion at bottom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fx9uUZwMUV0

• Electric Car Video– http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=j6U2dMO4b2Q

• Questions for “Plugging In – the Future of Electric Cars” 1. Why did GM destroy all of their electric cars in the 90s? 2. The “Revenge of the Electric Car” movie profiles three main companies making

electric cars. What were the three companies, and what are each company’s electric car model?

3. How much does the Tesla Model S cost? • 4. What was so revolutionary about what Consumer Reports said about the Tesla

Model S?• • 5. What is the “valley of death” in terms of marketing the electric car? • • 6. How long does it take for a full recharge of an electric car in a regular plug-in

station? 7. What percent of all US cars sold are electric cars?8. Norway currently has the highest per capita use of electric cars in the world.

What are some of the incentives offered to Norwegians if they have an electric car?

• • 9. How long does it take a Tesla to charge at a supercharger station?

Fracking and Questions:1.Look at the Shale-Gas Reservoir map. What is

the largest reservoir in America, and what are the four in Texas?

2.Look at the fracking diagram. Discuss the role of water in the fracking process – specifically how much is used, what’s in it, and what’s done with it after fracking.

3. Write down three fracks from the “Fracking Song”.

Fracking Song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHQu3SeUwUI

Welcome to APES 1/27 O ; 1/28 WDO: Water Pollution – Acid rain

1.What do the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act regulate (be specific)?

2.Fill in the chart below with contaminants regulated with the SDWA (from red chart):

Contaminant Class Main Sources (2) Health Effects (2)

Welcome to APES 2/2 O, 2/3 WDaily Objective: Air pollution and indoor air pollution.1.What is the source and environmental problem

with SOx compounds?2.What is the source and environmental problem

with NOx compounds?3.What is the source and human health impact for

particulates?Please turn your acid rain lab into the box, with the

rubric paper clipped to the front. Also glue in the acid rain diagram!