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Science 9 – Emily and Elandi – Climate Solution Fluency

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Define:

Climate change has always been a huge problem for our environment and for our Earth, so we diecide to change that with one of our own ideas. 

The challenge that we have been faced with is to think of a problem that we can solve with our own innovation regarding climate change. Our problem that we came up with was how to get rid of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases from our atmosphere and our lives. 

Discover: 

For our research, we investigated in what others have created and done, such as smog towers. There are multiple smog towers in Dehli, Beijing, and in Korea in order to get rid of the ridiculous amount of carbon in the air. In Iceland, they have the world’s largest direct air capturing facility that can remove carbon from the air and is then injected into a volcanic rock. China has been working on refurbishment projects to help with the many problems that carbon dioxide is causing to our Earth. China also have lots of valuable points on how we can help our reducement of carbon in the air.

With all of this information, this will help us in the future so we can know how to improve our ways of life and try and use less carbon in all our lives.

We also found some facts about climate change that effect Canada and the rest of the world:

  • Climate change is mainly caused by the increase of greenhouse gases – also known as GHGs – in our atmosphere.
  • This change in our climate has multiple impacts on our environment such as on our health and our economy
  • Canada’s total greenhouse gases emissions were found in 2020 with approximately 672 megatons of carbon dioxide in the air
  • Between the years of 1990 and 2020, Canada’s greenhouse gases emissions have increased by 13.1%, but went down again between 2005 and 2020 by 9.3% with the help of the use of electricity in our daily lives

We even came up with our own definitions of what carbon is and what greenhouse gases are too:

What is Carbon:

Carbon is a gas that has no odor or colour to it. It is made when animals or humans turn food into a useful energy. Carbon can help plant plants and can help animals grow, it can also release heat into the atmosphere. Sometimes too much carbon gets released into the atmosphere and that causes the result of climate change to our Earth.

What are Greenhouse Gases:

Greenhouse gases are gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing lots of radiation and lots of carbon dioxide.

Dream:

Some solutions that we came up with together were these:

  • Extracting carbon dioxide from our atmosphere
  • Planting more trees and helping our forests collect more carbon
  • Creating global goals to reduce the rising carbon in our environment
  • Ecosystems that can have an enhanced capacity to store more carbon into a chamber
  • More windmills and turbines to help with the air circulation
  • More carbon and smog towers around the world
  • Recycling our waste and composting it into the Earth
  • Replacing aluminum window frames with recycled aluminium

Deliver:

Here is a drawing of our prototype for our Carbon Compressor and Collector:

How our Carbon Compressor and Collector works is by placing on a roof so it can collect any carbon floating around the machine itself. After that, all the carbon gets compressed in a chamber and gets turned into fuel, oil, or jewelry. It then gets dispensed into crates to get transported to wherever its need to go.

Debrief: 

The process we went through for our solution fluency project was to start off with what our problem was and how we wanted to resolve it. Then, we did our research on what carbon dioxide is, what greenhouse gases are, what other countries have done it the past, and what’s going on with Canada with the resources of Destiny Discover. We then turned everything into paragraphs using our own words.

We also came up with various other ideas ans solutions to end the amount of carbon in our atmosphere and in our lives. Our carbon collector can compress the carbon into energy once again after it has already been used once. That will make the carbon reusable and more efficient to use in our lives.

Finally, Elandi drew our prototype for our invention called the carbon compressor along with what it does exactly. For our project now, Elandi and Emily will be constructing it in Minecraft as I create a video demonstrating how our carbon compressor would work. 

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