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It's a bird, it's a plane, NO, it's a NUKE.......lear power plant? As you may have read, my last mini-series of posts were based on climate change. If you didn't see them, go check them out now! I'll wait... *Waiting...* Great! They were pretty awesome, I know. In this next series of posts, I want to focus on energy. We need to reduce carbon emissions but still need more energy than ever before due to a rapid growing population. So what are our options? A lot of you probably have heard of or already understand how renewable energy works. Great! But I want to go through some of the common technologies for renewable energy, how they work (for the unaware) and discuss their importance on our future, from my point of view. Let's get started! As you may have guessed from the opener, which I may have somewhat borrowed from a famous comic book, the first post of the series is nuclear power. OHH MY GOODNESS NOT NUKES! THOSE ARE DANGEROUS! Well, let's see ...

I'm 1 view away from 2500! That is amazing to me, thank you all so much for even considering reading what goes on in my head. As promised, I want to conclude a small series on climate change with this post. There will definitely be more in the future as the climate change ball is beginning to roll, worldwide. Obama stated quite a bit about it in his state of the union, which I missed the beginning of, but just by him, the most powerful influencer on the planet, saying something about it is a huge step forward. He has said in the past, "We are the first to see the effects of climate change, and we are the last that can do something about it." ... At least I think Obama said that. Either way, it's 100% the truth and I commend him on his actions toward a better future for our Earth. So far I have mentioned that climate change is a big deal, and we're already seeing its effects. I have also talked about what a greenhouse gas is and what their effects are. Here,...

So you're too lazy to do your own research? Or maybe you don't trust the information on wikipedia? (You should, for most cases that is). Well, here comes the Jsaltblog to save you from your looming curiosity. First of all, why do we call the pollution we create "greenhouse gases"? Well, let's look at what pollution we are talking about specifically. I'll focus on the major one in this post, carbon dioxide. So what is carbon dioxide? Well, if you take a deep breath in, and feel the air enter your lungs, carbon dioxide is what you're breathing out! But this isn't the only source of CO2 (that's how I'll be denoting carbon dioxide, and I'll explain why in a few seconds). CO2 is also produced in combustion, like when you have a bonfire! Combustion is basically just taking something that burns, interacting it with oxygen (which is in the air) and then producing steam (which is just water in gas form) and CO2. Yeah, that's the "expl...

This one will be a "sciencey" post. Turn away now if you don't care about our planet, you animal. As all of you know, climate change is basically slowly ruining all of our lives. Yet people cannot get it through their heads that WE HAVE TO ACT NOW. But how? Everything we do in society and our economic structure depends on fossil fuels. Literally everything you see RIGHT NOW in plain sight, was likely made with some fossil fuel derivative. It's mind blowing to me that we have become so dependent on one thing as humans, that if it were to disappear tomorrow, we would basically be f*****. That's how serious our dependence on these old dinosaur carcasses we have become. But if we want a chance to keep Earth the same as it is (livable), what we take for granted everyday, we would need to halt all greenhouse gas production, today. Seriously, it has become that bad. But how? Like I just mentioned, we couldn't sustain our lives if this were the case. So what do ...