New energyhas been a theme in our geography course for several years under the wider context of resources of the earth.
Why became it a special theme and may be a passion for the teacher and some pupils?
We don´t have to go too far to find the reason. For example only a headline: oil crisis. The price of oil per barrel went from $15 to nearly $100 in only a couple of years. We find many other headlines, currently all media speak of climate change.
But there are not only horror news. If you observe the theme new energy you can find some positiv signals. In our home federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the northeast of Germany 30% of electricity is made from windpower meanwhile. There are many companies who produce new energy equipment for example wind turbines and solar panels. That means less unemployment, more jobs, some money to have a living.
Okay, many of it is pushed by the state. There are subsidies, paid by the electricity consumer, who has to pay it, whether he wants it ore not. And so he subsidies not only the german industry but also a large part of the chinese solar industry. If Mrs. Merkel knows that?
Nevertheless, there are many new kinds of energy, connected with technology, which could give us some hope in the longing for power. There are so many ideas in the field you can really make a hobby out of it, or even a job.
In our courses we treat the usual themes as wind power, offshore windpower, photovoltaic, solarthermic energy, geothermal energy, use of biomass, biogas, bio diesel, ethanol. From time to time you can change the topic a little bit. This year there is the first time a topic about electric cars and hybrid cars, to be produced by two girls who are interested in it and do a lecture and a poster about it.
A big theme is also energy storage in a wider sense because storage is important when energy is delivered unregularly depending on weather conditions or storage for transportation. You can store it in a battery, in a waterboiler or even in the underground and so on.
An exotic theme, for some newcomers at least, was last year new energy on the stock exchange.
teacher from wolgast
1 comment:
I find the cooperation with the other countries really good, because it is also about an important topic, and I wished much more people would bring such or similar projects into being, 'cause it's very important to the earth for the future. An extent of the climate disaster has to be felt already today, but even much worse is: What we can see for today, is what has increased into the air 10 years ago. I hope so very much and perhaps it also will be ready within many years, that you use or can use only environmentally friendly energies. This one must be given in front of out set tongues, but also the technology must go along with that and get better. It is all about our planet, everybody must help and contribute to it, also that are only the little things in life.
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