Saturday, December 5, 2009
It's been a while...
Lots to update since last time. We opened up the scope of our project to biofuels in general instead of just sugarcane (though this remained as one of the three specific fuels we looked at along with corn and algae). We used a number of books and a few internet sources for our research. On Wednesday and Thursday (the 2nd and 3rd of December) we compiled all our information and put the board together. This took quite a bit of organization as our information didn't always fit together under easily under common categories. However, now that it's all finished I'm pleasantly surprised at how it turned out. On Friday we presented our board to the class. Monday we get to see everybody else's boards! This includes the projects of students from all other classes too: physics, chemistry, and environmental systems. It looks like this may be the last post unless there is some other major update to our project :(. That being the case, I'd like to say how much I enjoyed doing this project. I went through a lot of twists and turns to get here, but I learned a ton and was very surprised to find how useful algae is in this field. It was unnerving to see that corn-based ethanol is so widely used in the United States, yet does not confer nearly as many benefits as some of the other fuels. Only time will tell what road the future of renewable energy takes.
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