Solar Panels

What are they?

           A panel designed to absorb the suns rays as a source of generating heat or electricity.

Energy Production
         
           Solar panels are becoming a very popular innovation in energy. Solar panels are one of the best innovations because they save you more money rather than paying for electricity due to the sun being the key component in this. Solar panels create no waste due to them being basically just a solar panel and all they have to do to work is be in a place that is sunny most of the time. But when people get rid of them, there really isn’t a correct way of disposing of them. Mainly because we haven’t seen many of them being thrown away. Solar panels are pretty costly to install and to pay for but no government investments will really be needed other than the production of them.

Transmission

           The people who own the solar panels can choose how the energy is distributed but the energy is wired through to the set areas that it needs to be in. There are more efficiencies that can be done and some of those are that they are trying to make each individual solar panel stronger so that they can hold more space and energy. They are centralized systems because they are the main root for the energy.

Consumption

           The good thing about the solar panels is that the energy is produced by itself for the consumer and the consumer pays a very little price such as $30 a month rather than the usual $100 or more per household. They can curb demand in that of the pricing of some, some people understand that they are expensive and are not willing to pay for something like that, when they don’t know that you actually save more money because you are producing your own energy.

Australia to Create the World's Largest Marine Reserve

Australia says it will create the world’s largest network of marine parks. These reserves will cover 3.1 million square kilometers of ocean including the Coral Sea. There will be some restrictions placed on fishing and oil and gas exploration in the protected zone. Last year, the Australian government announced its plans to protect the marine life currently in the Coral Sea which has an area of nearly 1 million square kilometers. The sea off of the Queensland coast in the northeastern part of Australia is home of sharks, tuna, tropical reefs and deep sea canyons. I t holds three US navy ships sunk during the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942.

Benefits

Some benefits of having this area for the marine life is protection of some species. All around the world sharks are being caught by fisherman and getting their fins cut off in order for the fisherman to make money off of it. Taking away a sharks fins kill them resulting in a large decrease in shark population all around the world. Currently a lot of countries are banning shark fining and this is doing very well for them so far. This will also mean that there will be limited oil and gas exploration rather than companies just coming in whenever and searching for a new spot to possibly find oil. This will decrease the chance of having a devastating oil spill such as the United States saw during the BP oil spill. Also having limited fishing also keeps the numbers of fish even within the wild. In the wild there is a food chain and that needs to be in tact because if one species dies off or is caused to go extinct due to fishing, then that could mess up the whole entire ecosystem of the ocean life. Having this can also help prevent shark attacks in Australia. This can happen because the sharks wont have to be closer to shore to hunt for food, they can stay within the reserve and be able to live there.  

*Pictured above* These are all shark fins, lined up and ready to be made into various different things

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