Is it okay to kill one person to save multiple lives?
In the Book justice a scenario was layed out where a group of men were on a boat. The group of men were out of food and water. They were all going to die of starvation. A younger man drank sea water and was doomed to die after he was warned not to. Is it okay to kill and eat the young man inorder to save the group?
Do we owe an “i’m sorry” for older generations mistakes?
The thin and efficient solar panels are being developed by Photovoltaics who are being funded by the U.S. department of energy. Photovoltaics are a part of the Solar Energy Technologies Program (SETP). The big picture is that within the SETP there are many different researches and programs developing ways to collect solar energy. The next main thing they do is promote solar energy to communities, cities, businesses, and the government. They are making it simple for the people, low maintenance, low cost, and effective. In their web site they have they have some intriguing facts about the program and what it could do for the nation. One being the improvement of the economy, by putting an estimated 250,000 new jobs for the solar industry and lessening the lessening the need for outside resources/energy. The solar energy will reduce pollution, promoting more healthy people in densely populated areas. They estimated by 2030 carbon emissions will be reduced by 23 million tons per year. A few of their goals they posted for 2008-2012 I think will be interesting if they pull it off. One of them was to improve the storing capacity, or the ability to store the electricity captured by solar panels. The next one, a better electric grid in cities for the solar power. The last goal that stood out to me was to help the U.S. become the leading solar power user in the world.
http://gizmodo.com/5376868/these-piano-stairs-will-motivate-even-the-laziest-of-you
At this source an experiment was done concerning the decisions of people; stairs or escalator. before the experiment was done they filmed the stairs and escalator and the result was that almost everybody chose the escalators. The next part of the video was showing these guys building piano keys on each stair. When somebody would step on the stair it would make the sound of the corresponding key, like in the movie “Big”. After the piano stairs were constructed the video showed that many more people took the stairs because it was fun. I liked this video because it shows how you can change behavior with technology. If I could do something similar but involving the environment, i think that would be a cool project idea.
This site had a couple of shocking pictures of what they called “fish kill”. There were so many dead fish in the mississippi river that from a far vision the river actually looked like a road. At first i thought the page was about a road killing fish but the thousands upon thousands of dead fish floating in the river made it look like a road. I read more about why the fish died at this site: ( http://www.wwltv.com/news/slideshows/Dead-whale-and-thousands-of-dead-fish-found-near-Venice-shipping-canal-102828139.html ) The fish actually died because of a low tied that trapped them in a closed body of water. The oxygen levels dropped and the fish suffocated. The second site talked about how the oil spill was a major suspect and that some poisons could have weakened their ability to survive in lower level oxygen waters.
This source was about a new idea about electric cars. The summarized problem about electric cars is that the batteries they run off of are heavy. To move something heavy takes more energy, resulting in a bigger battery. The car company Volvo is working on a technology that will make the car out of batteries. It is only an idea right now but the technology can be used in anything with a battery, reducing the size of it, cell phones, laptops etc. It is more of one big battery than multiple batteries. My concern about it would be when a car got in an accident the battery fluid would spill.
In the future i think i will discover my passion within environmental engineering. I have always had an interest for technical devices, fans, cell phones, motors, even something as simple as a bike chain. At the same time I am increasingly fascinated with “going green”. When i found out i could receive a degree in environmental engineering I dove into the research for school that offer a quality program in that field. It was perfect, taking two huge interests of mine and putting them in one.
The interest with mechanical things came to me when i was still in elementary school. I am almost certain it was the gears on my bike that got me hooked. I was curious as to why i went faster when the pointer was on 6 and why it was easy to pedal when on 1. That curiosity led me to more things, like taking apart headphones, to building a remote-controlled car, and eventually a go-cart. I loved the hands on, hard work, instant gratification appeal to those sort of things. Then i turned 16 and was able to drive. With that though came gas and how to pay for it. I paid more attention to the occasional news about gas and oil and why it was so expensive. With that came the knowledge of pollution. I had heard of it before but now i actually cared. The characteristics of global warming weighed on my mind, the ice caps, the ozone, acid rain, my carbon footprint. I liked the concept of alternative energy. I wondered why we are not using renewable energy enough. This became what i want in my future. I am not a tree hugging bush hippie. I am still intrigued with how an engine works. I believe my passion will come in engineering for the environment because it is not something I picked for money, it is something I enjoy.
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