Energy and Place Project
Essential Questions:
How does energy production and consumption impact place?
How does your sense of place, environmental ethic and understanding of our energy needs
influence your perception and decisions relating to energy production and consumption?
How does energy production and consumption impact place?
How does your sense of place, environmental ethic and understanding of our energy needs
influence your perception and decisions relating to energy production and consumption?
Reflection
Throughout this lab I've been able to make my own biodiesel and the process of making that was like nothing I would have expected. I did not know how to make any sort of fuel and how much it went into making it. This changes my perspective on what is in fuel even if all I made was biodiesel, plus while I was doing my test on the freezing time of biodiesel and diesel there was a lot of hidden science behind all of that. Like which chemical mixture lasts longer in the cold and what chemical or chemical compound could stop diesel from freezing. I still wonder how scientists were able to find a way to make diesel and find an addictive to add to diesel fuel. To find this there would have to be a lot of work and time to figure it all out. I didn't think science didn't go to much into the making of biodiesel and diesel but doing this lab I found that science had a huge role in finding and making these fuels.
Through my investigation I really started thinking about our energy resources and how much we use to have light or gas in our car. It took so much vegetable oil to make just 200 ml of biodiesel and researching the use of corn in methanol for my info-graphic it takes 8 bushels of corn to make 21.6 gallons of ethical gas which can feed a person for one year. Plus, with freezing biodiesel we need a lot of extra resources to make sure our cars can make it in the winter. This is eye opener that we need to do something about the resources used in our fuel so we can reduce the use of these resources so we can either feed our people or life stock or use it for better uses.
Throughout this lab I've been able to make my own biodiesel and the process of making that was like nothing I would have expected. I did not know how to make any sort of fuel and how much it went into making it. This changes my perspective on what is in fuel even if all I made was biodiesel, plus while I was doing my test on the freezing time of biodiesel and diesel there was a lot of hidden science behind all of that. Like which chemical mixture lasts longer in the cold and what chemical or chemical compound could stop diesel from freezing. I still wonder how scientists were able to find a way to make diesel and find an addictive to add to diesel fuel. To find this there would have to be a lot of work and time to figure it all out. I didn't think science didn't go to much into the making of biodiesel and diesel but doing this lab I found that science had a huge role in finding and making these fuels.
Through my investigation I really started thinking about our energy resources and how much we use to have light or gas in our car. It took so much vegetable oil to make just 200 ml of biodiesel and researching the use of corn in methanol for my info-graphic it takes 8 bushels of corn to make 21.6 gallons of ethical gas which can feed a person for one year. Plus, with freezing biodiesel we need a lot of extra resources to make sure our cars can make it in the winter. This is eye opener that we need to do something about the resources used in our fuel so we can reduce the use of these resources so we can either feed our people or life stock or use it for better uses.
Material Project
For this project what we did was find a material or chemical of some sort and either write a letter to someone about it, write a report on the material or chemical, or write a history report on it. These three categories were called entrepreneur, researcher, and author. What I did was a entrepreneur and what I wrote about was about this new material that was discovered called graphene that can be put in the core of skis to make them stronger but still be light and flexible. For my letter I wrote to the founder of 4frnt skis and told him why in the future he should add graphene to his skis. This was an awesome project and I found a lot of interesting ways to use chemistry to add to things to make them better.
Letter
Reflection
Throughout history chemistry has changed out way of living and have made us learn so much about the world. Chemistry owed us how to build and make new materials and stronger structures that have made Everyone so successful throughout history. Today We knew everything about the elements in this world and how they work to give us a description of how everything works. We can now build new things that revolutionize what we do and seeing things that can help the world be better. For the future, chemistry will be able to help man reach new ways to transport, build and work in the new world of science. With chemistry, the world is open to an unlimited source of knowledge.
The of the macroscopic, microscopic, molecular, and atomic levels are determined
The of the macroscopic, microscopic, molecular, and atomic levels are determined