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Solution fluency-Seaweed vs Methane
Define:
Climate change affects us all, with our earth heating up and melting the ice glaciers in Antarctica and the arctic to turn wildfires around the world. Climate change raises a huge problem for wildlife and the environment. One major factor in the climate change problem is the amount of methanol emissions from cows or other livestock. Methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere. Even though CO2 has a longer-lasting effect, methane sets the pace for warming in the near term. At least 25% of today’s warming is driven by methane from human actions. Methane primarily leaves the atmosphere through oxidization, forming water vapor and carbon dioxide. So, not only does methane contribute to global warming directly but also indirectly through the release of carbon dioxide.
Discover
With all the information we researched in mind, the problem we would like to solve is the climate crisis plaguing the earth. We studied the main contributing factors to global warming; greenhouse gases are a huge reason the earth is heating up today. Furthermore, Methanol emissions cause the earth to heat up quicker than anything seen before. The main cause of these methanol emissions is livestock that humans keep eating. Therefore, me and my partner decided to investigate ways to help, eradicate or severely decrease the amount of methane emissions. After some throughout research we have found out that just replacing 3% of livestock’s main dietary meal. Could decrease methane emissions by 80%, seaweed is a fast-growing plant and would be easy to implement into the meals of all livestock, so me and my partner tried to make machine that would optimize production of seaweed and allow us to mass produce it without much cost and be able to manufacture all livestock food with a bit of seaweed.
Deliver
This is our seaweed producer that runs on solar panels, it charges during the day, allowing seaweed to grow and harvests during the night.
Debrief
During the process we schedules afterschool meetings and explored different options to research. Did you know before, this project was supposed to be about protecting our coral reefs? There isn’t much I would change for next time, only that I would actually press the “hand in button” so that my teacher could actually see the post. I will make sure to triple check next time as to not make the same mistake again.