Thursday, January 15, 2009

ROAR- Energy Alternatives

Energy Alternatives
Helen Cothran

5comments:
-Carbon Dioxide is deadly.
-At this rate, we will all die soon because of all the pollutions.
-Solar is a reusable source of energy.
-We might get cancer if we allow this to continue.
-Wind is the fastest growing energy source.

4questions:
- How are we suppose to know that people cares?
- Is anyone really gonna stop burning fuels?
-How come we can't switch to wind energy?
-How come we can't create a system that sucks all the harmful pollution out?

3vocab:
-Turbine(pg107): any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as a fluid passing through and entirely filling a housing around the rotor.
-Kilowatts: (pg107): A unit of power equal to 1,000 watts.
-Marring(pg106): T disfigure, deface, or scar.


2literacy terms:
- "...use as little as..."(pg109)
- "...as well as destroying unique habitats..."(pg111)

1overview sentence:
- Carbon Dioxide is deadly, at this rate, we will all die soon because of all the pollutions, solar is a reusable source of energy, we might get cancer if we allow this to continue, and the wind is the fastest energy source.

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