"Trees" and "Leaves" Clean the Carbon

Synthetic "Trees"

Technological Advancements

Yes, the big white towers in the picture above are "trees" with a whole ton of "leaves". To you, it may look like just another type of solar windmill, solar panel, or a gigantic fly-swatter but this is different. This invention/project that has already been put in motion and seems to be working perfectly, soaking up 1000x more carbon than an actual tree. This "tree" soaks up carbon through its "leaves" and puts it into a chamber where it is then changed into liquid form. This "tree" could be used to make a CO2 liquid fuel which could be used in planes and cars. When the carbon is soaked up, this leaves cleaner air and more oxygen. The extra plus? This tree doesn't need sunlight to work, it could be placed anywhere and still soak up the carbon! Now, they can be used to help slow or even stop global warming! Now that is a technological advancement.

Rampaging Elephant Restraint System

Rampaging Elephant Restraint System

Environmental Help

Yes, it just might sound impossible, but elephant rampages are actually quite common. There have been many reports on elephant attacks and rampages. They attack their mahouts (owners), cars, and pretty much anything nearby. Some people believe that the elephants are fighting against possible mistreatment (as you can see above with it's legs tied in chains) from their mahouts. Finally, after many attacks, a Mumbai engineer built "violent elephant control gear". This mechanism is wrapped around the pachyderm's leg when bought and if the elephant goes beserk a simple press on a remote control activates the mechanism. The mechanism shoots a wrap around the other leg, and so immobilizes the creature to the point where he cannot harm anything around it. This mechanisim is completely humane and does not hurt the elephant in any way. This object is going to be released sometime soon for approximately $664. The only setback is that some people believe that once an elephant is tamed that it will return to its abusive owner. That may or may not be true based on the physical state of the animal. I would think that if the animal was healthy, it would be returned and if it was abused or hurt, it would be taken to an animal sanctuary for healing.

Mysics Semester Goals

Don't we all wish that we could draw a whale for an answer and still get it right? Well...at least I do.

Semester II Mysics Goals

1. I would like to fully understand how to use pi but i have no idea if we are going to be learning about it but I hope we do so we can learn about radii and circumferences.

2. I would like to do better on my Mysics tests, quests, and quizzes (this includes group tests as well) because I feel like I do not do well on tests and I think that I should work harder at them by slowing down a little bit and reading the directions a little bit better. I think that would help a lot.

3. I would like to learn more about the principals and laws of this world like Bernoulli's Principal and the Gravitational Laws. I would like to learn more about this because then I could calculate real-life math better than I did before.

4. Convince my Mysics teacher that a whale is a fabulous 100% answer...okay I know it's never going to happen but, hey, i can dream right?

Humanities Semester Goals

1. I really want to improve on my vocabulary because I love writing and I really want to learn more words so that I can make my writing more professional. I think that better vocabulary makes a story more eloquent.

2. I want to keep my grades as a B+ or higher so I can get into a good college. So, one of my goals is to keep my grades up really high and I'm going to do that by studying more vocabulary and the way of using adjectives, pronouns, etc. I also want to improve on my sentence structures.

3. I really want to improve on my use of personification, metaphors, and similes because those are major parts of an interesting and good book/writing. Plus, if you do not have a knowledge of those three major writing utensils, you cannot see life as beautiful because description helps you visualize just how beautiful the world is.

Egyptian Religion Pillar

Project Description: My Freshman Humanities class decided to change the history of our race and send a helpful object or tool trough time to help an extinct civilization survive. We would choose either a trebuchet, a modern day sailboat, or a water (purification) system. We would then have to get our object or tool approved and funded by the High Tech High Science Society.

Process: For my group's trebuchet for the Ancient Egyptian civilization, we had to make a couple of posters and, in time, a trebuchet. First, you had to create a blueprint to prove that your design could be applied to the actual object. Once you had that accomplished, you would get the blueprint approved by either one of our teachers. You would make changes if necessary and create the final draft. Next, you would create a concept poster that would explain how the object worked. In my group's case, we explained the laws of projectile motion. We would get that approved just like we did with the blueprints and make the corrections if needed. Next, we would create the actual object or tool based on your blueprint. Finally, you would paint a portrait that would represent your pillar. For example, mine was Ancient Egypt so I painted an Egyptian goddess named Isis over the Pyramids to represent Religion. Of course the others on my team painted representatives of Government, Science & Technology, and Architecture. Then the exhibition would come and you would show off your finished product.

Reflection: What did you learn? Well, during this whole ordeal, I learned alot about gravity and projectile motion and how it affected the real world. Plus I learned what the normal gravitiational pull is (negative 9.8 m/s). What challenges did you encounter? While building this particular trebuchet I had some challenges with my partners. I have to admit it. I argued with them about what we should do for building and creating the posters and I think that I did that too much and I'm sorry I did that. I think that I was really stressed about this project as well and I think I let my nerves get to me too much. What would you do the same or different? If I ever did this project again, I would definitely not let my emotions get in the way of my work (ex. my stress and frustration). That is not an excuse to not work well with others. I take full responsibility for my actions. Next time I would focus on the positive things that were happening like how our trebuchet turned out (gorgeous by the way!). How will this help you later? Well this project has helped me learn about the pros and the cons about working in a group and I think that this would help me in real life because not everyone I work with is going to be perfect and agree with everthing I say. I think that this would help me with making the project to my fullest ability and be able to make it amazing!

Artifact (a.k.a. Picture): Below is a picture of my pillar that I painted for the Ancient Egyptian Religion. As I said in the Process section of this blog post, it has an Egyptian goddess named Isis above the Pyramids of Giza.