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How can we use the energy that we get from the sun?

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How can we use the energy that we get from the sun?

We use so much energy every single day and depend on it in our daily lives, but do you know what we are using energy for, not the simple answer Drying clothes, Sun Solar Flare Particles coronal mass ejectionsgrowing plants for food, producing electricity, starting a car engine, heating your home, Cooking food and lighting up buildings/ houses. We all know that and yes, it’s a part of it but there is so much more depth and explanation about how we can use it. 
 
First of all, let’s talk about where the Earths located in. Where we can get enough energy from. 
 
Earth is part of the solar system, with all we need to live and survive. We have plenty of energy from the sun and production from plants that need sunshine. Our climate is close to the area of the Goldilocks zone which is our suns livable area. We’re not too close to the sun where it’s too hot and not too far away from the sun where we can freeze. We’re in an area where we can get enough energy.
 
 How is the energy produced by the sun?  without this question it would not make sense where the energy came from and how it is produce and converted from the sun to come to earth.

Due to an enormous fusion reaction, the sun generates energy. Scientists believed the cause of an enormous fusions reaction started with a huge cloud of gas and particle . It is a Nebula as to why something works or happens the way it does which has caused it own gravity to collapse. It developed a large ball of light in the centre of our solar system and solar energy- 

CG model Electricity Nucleus Atom Nuclear explode bomb emit x-ray radiation magnetic fields nuclear physics science.
This image is a massive nuclear fusion that created the sun which we get energy and light from.

production process. It collects hydrogen and resists to create energy. Even after overtaking hundreds of kilometers of air, the amount of energy solar radiation the sun carries can reach Earth and still have enough energy to work a computer. Since electricity comes from the sun, if all of it is captured technologies, photovoltaic and solar thermal can be used to produce energy in which it can grow.

let’s talk about what people might do to use the energy that we get from the sun and what kind of  solar energy and solar technique is included of the process of using energy from the sun.

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Photosynthesis is part of a growth of a plant that occurs when energy from the sun passes through when the plant has trapped light energy from its leaves and uses carbon dioxide and water in a process called glucose that is made into sugars. Later on, in about months or after we can retrieve the energy by burning Plant goods like wood. It breaks the chemical bonds with free energy such as heat and light.
 
Solar energy is one of the energies that we get from the sun it is very important to agriculture. Fertilizing land, the process of growing crops and taking care of its livestock. There were a lot of advantages using Solar Panel Photovoltaic installation on a Roof, alternative electricity sourcesolar techniques. Crop rotation expanded and improved harvests. Stopping the crops from being damaged and spoiled with using air from drying it with the sun and wind helped a lot to prevent it from happening. Unused of food has allowed us to have more of a crowded population and a much more organized society.
 
Solar energy can be used to cook once harvesting has been done. A Swiss physicist, Horace de Saussure inventedSolar oven the first solar box cooker in 1767. It’s used to cook fruit back in the days. The temperature could be extended to 87.8 °C and 190°F. A lot of different solar cookers are being invented in this century made for cooking, drying and heating up food/ milk to destroy any bacteria, molds, yeasts found in food. Since there are no fossil fuel being used it is much safer because it does not cause pollution or destroy the foresttby cutting trees down which is also called deforestation.
 This video is about how the sun came to life and how energy was formed by the sun.

              

Website/Source Name Author Publication Date URL
1 National geographic Kimberly Dumke   Friday, January 21, 2011             https://www.nationalgeographic.org/news/power-sun/
2 Nature works; plants   NatureWorks was developed and produced by New Hampshire PBS and the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center.     July 6, 1959 https://nhpbs.org/natureworks/nwepphotosynthesis.htm
3 What you need to know about energy data provided by the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy and from relevant reports and studies of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. site text written by Curt Suplee and edited by Stephen Mautner Copyright 2016 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved http://needtoknow.nas.edu/energy/about/
4 How does the sun produce energy? Fraser Cain   DECEMBER 14, 2015.       https://phys.org/news/2015-12-sun-energy.html
5 10 ways to use the suns energy   Guy Dauncey and Meghan Etcheverry January 1, 2010   https://www.corporateknights.com/channels/clean-technology/ten-ways-use-suns-energy-12623527/
6 Top 10 sites for copyright and royalty free images/photos Christian Bollina Updated: October 1, 2018 https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-5-websites-for-free-stock-photographs/
Where I got the Image Images
https://kaboompics.com/gallery?search=nuclear+fushion Solar cooker, solar energy, Nuclear fusion reaction, sun
https://search.creativecommons.org/search?q=nuclear%20fusion&provider&li&lt&searchBy photosynthesis diagram

 

 

Information Reflection

1. What questions did you need to research in order to research your topic?

i) Where is the earth located in?                                                                                                       ii)Where can we get enough energy?                                                                                                         iii) How is the energy produced by the sun?                                                                                            iv) How it is produce and converted from the sun to come to earth.                                                   v) How might people use energy?                                                                                                               vi) What kind of solar energy and solar technique is included?

 2.  What new or familiar digital tools did you try to use as you worked through this project

A new digital tool I tried to use is Gale and Engage learing but I couldn’t find anything in particular to put in my edu blog related to my question. So I just used google and youtube. For my images I used creativecommon.com that was showed by my teacher as a free copyrighted website to search for images.

3. What was was the process you used to investigate the topic?

i) Thought of a Wonder Research meaningful question.                                                                        ii) Do Research related to my question.                                                                                                     iii) Fill out the Wonder Research Template                                                                                             iv) Edited my work to put on my edu blog                                                                                  

4. How did you verify and cite the information you found?

How I verified: I checked if the website I used is a real website to be trusted and not a fake and found other websites that they included/cited that were also on it and can be trustworthy.

How I cited the information I found: I looked for website name, author, publication date and URL.

5. How did the process of completing this challenge go? What could you have done better?

The process of completing this challenge was overall a long process because you had to search for something related to your topic. Find the citations url, author , date  and website. Making it into your words the things you researched on. I could have done better finding more information about my topic and using my time management well at home to find more information and I should’ve looked harder to find something related to my topic using the recommended school provided website.