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.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
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 Video
Soccer dates as far back
as 2500BC with the Greeks, Egyptians and Chinese playing a foot based game
involving a ball. Some games included possessing the small ball longer than the
other team would. The Chinese seemed to have the first modern type version of
the game and called this ‘Tsu-Chu’ or ‘kick ball’. The group credited for this
was the Tsin Dynasty (255-206BC) where the soldiers would play a training
activity where a leather ball was kicked into a net strung between two poles. The
only difference was that the new was strung 30 feet from the floor. So our
modern game that many people have come to love dates back almost 4600 thousand
years ago.
Soccer Since Then
Soccer has come a long
way in 4600 years. Soccer now is the most popular sport among the world. The
biggest event in all of soccer is the World Cup, which happens every four years
and in a different country every time. The first official World Cup took place
in 1930 in Urugay. This was made because the 1932 Olympics did not include
soccer so they made the World Cup. Uruguay, who was the best at the time, won
the tournament beating Argentina 4-2 and became the first official team to win
the World Cup. The World Cup has evolved into now the most watched sporting
event ever. Over 1 billion people tuned into the 2014 World Cup Final with
Germany facing Argentina. Germany won the game in the 112’ with a goal scored
by the late substitution in that of Mario Götze. That was the game winning goal
that won Germany the World Cup. Argentina played well against them. Argentina
does have one of the best players in the World, which is Lionel Messi. He led
his team to the World Cup Final but it just wasn’t enough. There are also trophies that teams can win. Every country has their own leagues and the winners at the end of the season get a trophy. There is also the UEFA Champions League which is the biggest team tournament in Europe and all around the world. FC Barcelona has recently won the UEFA Champions League and completed the "treble" which means they won the three biggest trophies a team can win in one season. They became the only team in history to get two trebles.
Everyone has their opinions in every sport of who the best players of all time are. For soccer there have been so many great players and if you were to see these players play in some of their finest games you would be truly amazed and impressed with these men. Every ere has had their best and some teams have always stood out such as FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Bayern Munich and many others. Some of these players have set records in scoring, appearances, assists and wins. Many factors go into deciding who the best players of all time are. The Ballon D'or is the award given to the player who has played the best during that season. Before the Ballon D'or, the FIFA Player of the Year award was given out. That is the highest individual honor that someone could get, but the best player should also be a leader and get other awards for their team such as a World Cup victory or a UEFA Champions League trophy.
In every sport there are
various different leagues. For soccer, each country has their own levels of
leagues. We might only know of the best ones but there are about 3 leagues per
country in most sports. Each of these teams got to their positions by being
either relegated or promoted. Teams want to be promoted to the point where they
play in the top division such as the Barclays Premier League or maybe even the
La Liga BBVA. Players want to make it to the highest league so they can move to
the bigger teams and then make more money.
The effects of
relegation and promotion can be either good or bad. Sometimes we see a club
go completely bankrupt because they have moved down leagues. But there is also
teams that can come out of nowhere and do extremely well and move their way up
to the top division.
Promotion
In 2002, the Football
Association allowed the club Wimbledon F.C. to move to Milton Keynes in
Buckinghamshire. The team that came to Milton Keys was then called the Milton
Keynes Dons. The fans from Wimbledon F.C. bought the club back thus creating
two teams. The MK Dons have then moved themselves up the ranks and currently
they are in the Football League Championship. We could see the rise of the club
and see them in the top division. The team started from the bottom being
relegated from years finally was good enough to keep moving forward. Promotion is good, because players and the club are making more money and they get more recognition. Relegation
No team wants to hear
that their club has been relegated to a lower division, but it has to happen
every season. As much as it breaks our hearts, it makes for a very fun thing to
watch. In the early 1990’s, the Barclays Premier League had a dominant team in
that of Leeds United. Leeds United showed great promise among the league,
signing players such as Eric Cantona, Alan Smith, Fabian Delph, and many others
that were and now are very good players. They were the dominant team until
their after their Champions League semi-final season. We saw the team not being
able to pay their big players, so they started selling some players and before
you knew it they were relegated the whole way to Football League 1, which is
two levels down from the Premier League. Since then the team has started to
come back making their up to the Football League Championship and have been
doing well but not enough to be promoted yet. After this all happened, a new famous term has been popularized around England called Pulling A Leeds. Basically it is used when a club shows financial mismanagement. But relegation can affect even
the best of teams.
We also see some great
clubs that are very close to getting relegated. This happened to Borussia
Dortmund, a club in Germany. In the past couple of years in the German
Bundesliga there have been two powerhouses, they were Borussia Dortmund and
Bayern Munich. Dortmund had their three big super stars Marco Reus, Mario
Gotze, and Robert Lewandowski. Bayern then bought Gotze and Lewandowski. Bayern
tried to get Reus but he was loyal to his club. The two clubs played for the 2014 Bundesliga title. Bayern finished on top with a 2-1 victory. Both teams had high hopes because of their previous success. Reus was hurt during the season which also led the team to not play well for the coming season as he was their star player. Last season Dortmund and Reus
were not clicking, and found themselves at the bottom of the table and almost
saw their team being relegated. Near the end of the season the club pulled it
back together and kept themselves in the division. This season they have come
out very well and are currently 4-0 at the top of the German Bundesliga. They have a very good team now including world class players such as Marco Reus, Pierre Emerick Aubamayang, Mats Hummles and many more. So we
see the scare of relegation force teams to start clicking and playing well.
The debate about
Relegation vs Promotion is whether it should still be a thing or if it should
be terminated, forcing teams to stay in their current position. I personally
believe that it should remain as it is. It would not benefit the lower level
teams if they were forced to stay where they are because they would stay making
very little money and most players would not want to play for a team where they
aren’t getting a good fan base.
