Putting Death in the Seas so that people can drive their SUVs.
Imagine if you will, taking a cruise or being on a charter fishing boat hundreds of miles off the coast of Florida, and all that can be seen for miles around is death. Well in some areas in the Gulf of Mexico that is what it is like. Pollution from the push for more “green” fuels has put a stranglehold on the fish and the industry that relies on them for their survival. Farmers are happy due to the rich government sponsored programs to get more corn on the market for this “green” fuel. Although moving to green fuel is good for mitigating the air pollution, it is destroying the coastal areas in the Gulf of Mexico that depend on the fishing industry because nitrogen-rich waters from corn fields increase the growth of harmful algae: there are better crops than corn to produce biomass for fuel, and even with natural weather patterns the problem still exist.
Since the beginning of the Bush administration, the President has called for a decreased dependence on foreign oil and a way to find a greener fuel. That push has led to a growth in the use of corn as bio-diesel. A growth so big that by spring 2007 it has been reported that by combining all the corn fields in North America it would be about the same size as the state of California. (Phoilpott) The lack of oversight on the farmers and loose laws has helped to create a literal trickle down effect that is damaging the streams, rivers, lakes and oceans around our nation. According to an article by Tom Phoilpott Clean Water Jacked, those responsible for the enforcement of the laws to protect our lands and waters have handed over the duty to the states and local government. Then they do not check up to ensure the law is followed. Since corn was the easy chose for many farmers, the crops get bigger. It has even gotten to the point where land that was set aside to naturally replenish itself is being used.
In 1970's the USDA made policies to have farmers plant “fencerow to fencerow.” Since that time the policy has not changed.(Phoilpott)This practice leaves no room for easements and nowhere for the nitrogen water runoff to go but out. Before all the rich government subsidies most farmers had a practice of crop rotation or planting crops that were less harmful to the ground so that it could recover. For example on four acres of land one would be left alone to naturally refresh its self and then the next season a different acre would be left untouched.
The main ingredient to get the corn to grow is synthetic nitrogen. This is due to the over farming of fields and that corn requires large amounts of nitrogen in the soil to grow. Unfortunately, most of this nitrogen is washed out of the fields and into the streams and rivers and on out to the Gulf of Mexico. When the nitrogen-rich waters along with all the other runoff from various sources along the Mississippi River reach the Gulf it mixes with the organisms at the mouths of the water outlets and serves to feed the plant organisms there. It has gotten to a point where the algae in the areas grow rapidly, die, and then fall to the sea floor. This process is known as Hypoxia. The oxygen gets depleted from the sea floor up by the decomposing of the dead algae and the organisms that consumes them. (Phoilpott, “Gulf Dead Zone”) There are many other crops that can be used to make biomass for fuel other than corn. Many have no need for the harmful chemical nitrogen.
Studies and research have and keep finding that there are better ways to make green fuel. The current technology in practice today is still just barely able to keep corn as a green fuel (Schmid). What makes it worse is that there are now plants that turn corn into ethanol using 300 tons of coal per day. This is taking a step in the backwards direction from trying to make a clean fuel. (Clayton) The companies using coal to power the facilities say it is due to the rising cost of fuel. Before they were using clean burning natural gas to power the equipment need to make the corn based ethanol. Even the big oil companies are seeing the profit in helping the research and are working with universities to find the next technological breakthroughs.(Lucas) There are better crops that produce an outstandingly higher percentage fuel rating; 30 to 100 more than corn or soy bean crops. (Gotfried) The new crop that is out producing the other standard crops is algae. The company that is working on this technology, Arizona Public Service Company (APS), plans to replicate the success of algae biomass facility built at a natural gas power plant. The location of the next experimental facility will be next to Arizona’s largest coal burning plant. It works by capturing the cO2 from the plants smoke stacks and giving it to the algae to filter and then using the harvested algae crop to supplement the coal fuel.
In Iowa recent negotiations have begun for funding an algae bio-fuel facility using the byproducts of an ethanol plant. Phase one of the projects has been authorized and more talks are going to take place with in the month of April 2008. Iowa is working with the same company as the one that helped get a plant going in Arizona. (DeWitte) Imagine the environmental impact of having algae bio-mass facilities on the roofs of factories world wide. It could open up many job opportunities and serve as an inexpensive way to lessen the carbon foot print of many heavy industrial zones across the globe. New technologies are being looked at to use more diverse bio-mass to make the ethanol fuel; like grasses, the whole corn plant, and some types of tree bark. In the State of Florida, recent plans to change zoning laws to get ethanol producing fuel plants using sugar cane waste byproducts are under way. Technology developed by a University of Florida Professor is being used in a test bio-fuel plant in Louisiana. Another test plant is on the drawing board to be put up on University property as it does not require zoning changes. If the University can prove the viability of such bio-mass to ethanol plants it will attract investors to the south and use other crops waste instead of food crops. (Salisbury)
Using cane sugar as a bio-fuel is not a new idea. In the country of Brazil, ethanol has been used in some form to run vehicles since the 1920’s. In the 1970’s Brazil was importing the majority of its oil. When the OPEC oil crisis started to happen, the government decided to find a better way. Brazil’s dictator, like our government is doing today with the corn, started financing the conversion of the entire system from oil to bio-fuels. Carmakers in the country were given incentives to produce ethanol burning vehicles and the infrastructure, like gas stations, were built to support the change over. Less than ten years later the majority of Brazilian cars were burning only one hundred percent ethanol fuel. Today most cars in Brazil can run on any bio-fuel mixture, like the E85 mix in North America where eighty-five percent is ethanol and the other fifteen is gas. With cane sugar producing over double the ethanol of corn, six to eight hundred gallons per acre, it is hard to imagin why our country does not plant sugar crops over corn. One reason is that cane sugar is more of a tropical plant, though there is some companies in south Florida working on building plants to produce the sugar based ethanol. Even though sugar looks like a big plus on the road to make green fuels it still in need of more improvements to take place. Brazil still uses the practice of burning the crops to make it easier to harvest by hand and is also contributing to the deforestation of the South American rain forest. (Bourne) While the search for better and cleaner ways to find green fuel for North America’s needs, the waters in the south are relying on an over stressed and failing ecosystem to filter out the nitrogen. Even with natural weather patterns the problems still exist.
In the last few years several hurricanes passed through the area string up every thing around. The power of those storms pushed the effected waters around but has not broken them down. The natural tides have been so over whelmed with the in flux that it is unable to wash out the junk and nitrogen. All these problems are known to the government but the policies were made a long time ago nothing is being changed about it. The problems are getting worse, known locally as Red Tide due to the type of algae in the Gulf Coast, in many costal areas the winds are blowing some of the algae toxins inland causing irritation to eyes and respiration. As well as all the dead and decomposing fish that wash up on many miles of shore every day during and after the Red Tide season. The Red Tide has many effects on the environment and local economies. Health officials are still doing studies and research on the many sources of the problems effecting humans along the coast. Testing is looking for any long term problems and if the hospital visits are a result of a decreased immune system. (Smith)
In recent years, people have begun to notice the direct effect of red tide blooms and animals getting sick. The businesses along the coast are suffering as news spread about the toxic clouds floating over beach communities causing tourism to drop. Some residents have even sold their homes and moved to get away from the coast due to health issues. The fishing industry is on the ropes due to the problems happening in the Gulf. Some boats have not gone out, most preferring to stay docked to save on gas. Many of the boats that do go out find that their once abundant fishing spots are completely void of life or just have a few bait fish. In a report about Florida billing itself as the "fishing capital of the world", (Zollo) the fishing has dried up. Many charter boats that depend on the Gulf for income have found that their best fishing spots are dead from the sea floor up. Most boats have been staying in hoping that the currents wash away the problems and look toward the Governor, Jeb Bush, to help open the door to financial aid. Some researchers are saying that there is some life out in the Gulf but for those that go looking they say it is hard to find. Counter arguments on size of dead zones, sites that were productive that are not any more.
Until the EPA or some other governmental agency steps up to limit the corn boom and the amount of nitrogen flowing into the sea, problems will continue to rise. It may take the voice of the local citizens to speak up, and call on those in office to make the changes. The technology is here today along with better crops to make better “green” fuels. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture need to make major policy changes to confront this epidemic problem facing the Gulf of Mexico. Many communities in the south are figuring out some of the contributing factors to the red tide and have started legislation to curb the effects of the human element. Corn for bio-fuel needs to be replaced with better, “greener” sources to mitigate the amount of nitrogen and fertilizer run-off from farms into the Mississippi River and other water sources. The technology is here and getting better every day and with the help of the people to push the government to accept and implement better practices to save the environment for the future. More studies need to be done to find the true cost of making Bio-fuels before jumping on a bandwagon and making things worse for those many miles away. Red tide has always been known to be a naturally occurring phenomenon in the Gulf of Mexico, but since the industrial revolution in North America the blooms have been getting larger. The ecosystem is unable to filter the harmful effects and it is happening all over the world. Make your voice heard, find out about how green “green fuels” are and their true cost to the environment. Support laws to lessen the dependency on burning fuel for energy. Start at the home and local communities to make life better for the future and the children.
Works Cited
Bourne, Joel K. Jr. (2007, October). “Green Dreams” National Geographic Magazine Retrieve May 3, 2008, from http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/10/biofuels/biofuels-text/1
Clayton, Mark. (2006, March). “Carbon Cloud over a Green Fuel.” Christian Science Monitor. Retrieve March 1, 2008, from http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0323/p01s01-sten.html
DeWitte, David (2008, April). “New source of renewable energy?” Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids, IA), Retrieve April 16, 2008, from http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=1&hid=5&sid=a9b9fe02-9942-4c39-a392-e1dad849af1e%40sessionmgr8
Gotfried, Steven. (2007, September). “Growth Rates of Emission-Fed Algae Show Viability of New Biomass Crop.” Green Fuels. Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://www.greenfuelonline.com/gf_files/GreenFuel%20Growth%20Rates.htm
Lucas, Marlene (2007, May). “Fueling research..” Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids, IA). Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=12&hid=120&sid=fbd1891d-0bd7-46dd-93e1-afe51cad3828%40sessionmgr2
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, October). “Clean water jacked.” Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/17/125453/97
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, July). “Gulf Dead Zone: bigger than ever.” Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/7/16/161412/560
Salisbury, Susan. (2008, March). “Florida Crystals seeks zoning change for ethanol projects” Palm Beach Post, The (FL); Retrieve April 16, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=1&hid=3&sid=8cea3595-cdcd-4e48-ad04-2be4678f87f1%40SRCSM1
Schmid, Randolph E. (2007, October). “Ethanol push could threaten water supplies.” The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071010.weth
Smith, Wes. (2007, May). “Red-tide illnesses studied” Orlando Sentinel, The (FL); Retrieve April 16, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=2&hid=14&sid=7f811915-0881-4eb1-9119-3626d2cb73e4%40sessionmgr2
Zollo, Cathy. (2005, August). “Little left to catch in tainted Gulf.” Red Tide Alert. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.redtidealert.com/DeadZoneintheGulf.html
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Draft 2 part 4 i think, I am confussed
Putting Death in the Seas so that people can drive their SUVs.
Imagine if you will, taking a cruse or being on a charter fishing boat hundreds of miles off the coast of Florida, and all that can be seen for miles around is death. Well in some areas in the Gulf of Mexico that is what it is like. Pollution from the push for more “Green” fuels has put a strangle hold on the fish and the industry that relies on them for their survival. Farmers are happy due to the rich government sponsored programs to get more corn on the market for this “Green” fuel. Although moving to green fuel is good for mitigating the air pollution it is destroying the coastal areas that depend on the fishing industry because Nitrogen rich waters from corn fields increase the growth of harmful algae, there are better crops than corn to produce biomass for fuel, and even with natural weather patterns the problem still exist.
Since the beginning of the Bush administration, the President has called for a decreased dependence on foreign oil and a way to find a greener fuel. That push has led to a growth in the use of corn as bio-diesel. A growth so big that by spring 2007 it has been reported that by combining all the corn fields in North America it would be about the same size as the state of California. (Phoilpott, Tom) The lack of oversight on the farmers and loose laws has helped to create a literal trickle down effect that is damaging the streams, rivers, lakes and oceans around our nation. According to an article by Tom Phoilpott "Clean Water Jacked", those responsible for the enforcement of the laws to protect our lands and waters have handed over the duty to the states and local government. Then they do not check up to ensure the law is followed. Since Corn was the easy choose for many farmers, the crops get bigger. It has even gotten to the point where land that was set aside to naturally replenish itself is being used. The main ingredient to get the corn to grow is synthetic Nitrogen. This is due to the over farming of fields and that corn requires large amounts of nitrogen in the soil to grow. Unfortunately most of this nitrogen is washed out of the fields and into the streams and rivers and on out to the Gulf of Mexico. When the Nitrogen rich waters along with all the other runoff from various sources along the Mississippi River reach the Gulf it mixes with the organisms at the mouths of the water outlets and serves to feed the plant organisms there. It has gotten to a point where the algae in the areas grow rapidly, die, and then fall to the sea floor. This process known as Hypoxia where the oxygen gets depleted from the sea floor up by the decomposing of the dead algae and the organisms that consumes them. (Phoilpott, Tom, “Gulf Dead Zone”) There are many other crops that can be used to make biomass for fuel other than corn. Many have no need for the harmful chemical nitrogen.
Studies and research have and keep finding that there is better ways to make green fuel. The current technology in practice is still just barely able to keep corn as a green fuel (Schmid). What makes it worse is that there are now plants that turn corn into ethanol using 300 tons of coal per day. This is taking a step in the backwards direction from trying to make a clean fuel. (Clayton, Mark) The companies using coal to power the facilities say it is due to the rising cost of fuel. Before they were using clean burning natural gas to power the equipment need to make the corn based ethanol. Even the big oil companies are seeing the profit in helping the research and are working with universities to find the next technological break through.(Lucas, Marlene) There are better crops that produce an outstanding higher percentage fuel rating; 30 to 100 more than corn or soy bean crops. (Gotfried) The new crop that is out producing the other standard crops is algae. The company that is working on this technology, Arizona Public Service Company (APS), plans to replicate the success of algae biomass facility built at a natural gas power plant. The location of the next experimental facility will be next to Arizona’s largest coal burning plant. It works by capturing the cO2 from the plants smoke stacks and giving it to the algae to filter and then using the harvested algae crop to supplement the coal fuel. In Iowa recent negotiations have begun to funding for an algae bio-fuel facility using the byproducts of an ethanol plant. Phase one of the project has been authorized and more talks are going to take place with in the month of April 2008. Iowa is working with the same company as the one that helped get a plant going in Arizona. (DeWitte) Imagine the environmental impact of having algae bio-mass facilities on the roofs of factories world wide. It could open up many job opportunities and serve as an inexpensive way to lessen the carbon foot print of many heavy industrial zones across the globe. New technologies are being looked at to use more diverse bio-mass to make the ethanol fuel like grasses, the whole corn plant, and some types of tree bark. In the State of Florida recent plans to change zoning laws to get ethanol producing fuel plants using sugar cane waste byproducts are under way. Technology developed by a University of Florida Professor is being used in a test bio-fuel plant in Louisiana. Another Test plant is on the drawing board to be put up on University property as it does not require zoning changes. If the University can prove the viability of such Biomass to ethanol plants it will attract investors to the south and use other crops waste instead of food crops. (Salisbury) While the search for better and cleaner ways to find Green fuel for North America’s needs, the waters in the south are relying on an over stressed and failing ecosystem to filter out the nitrogen. Even with natural weather patterns the problems still exist.
In the last few years several hurricanes passed through the area string up every thing around. The power of those storms pushed the effected waters around but has not broken them down. The natural tides have been so over whelmed with the in flux that it is unable to wash out the junk and nitrogen. All these problems are known to the government but the policies were made a long time ago nothing is being changed about it. The problems are getting worse, known locally as Red Tide due to the type of algae in the Gulf Coast, in many coastal areas the winds are blowing some of the algae toxins inland causing irritation to eyes and respiration. As well as all the dead and decomposing fish that wash up on many miles of shore every day during and after the Red Tide season. The Red Tide has many effects on the environment and local economies. Health official are still doing studies and research on the many source of the problems effecting humans along the coast. Testing is looking for any long term problems and if the hospital visits are a result of a decreased immune system. (Smith) In recent years people have begun to notice the direct effect of red tide blooms and animals getting sick. The businesses along the coast are suffering as news spread about the toxic clouds floating over beach communities causing tourism to drop. Some residents have even sold their homes and move to get away from the coast due to health issues. The fishing industry is on the ropes due to the problems happening in the Gulf. Some boats have not gone out, most preferring to stay docked to save on gas. Many of the boats that do go out find that their once abundant fishing spots are completely void of life or just have a few bait fish. In a report about Florida billing itself as the "fishing capital of the world", (Zollo) the fishing has dried up. Many charter boats that depend on the Gulf for income have found that their best fishing spots are dead from the sea floor up. Most boats have been staying in hoping that the currents wash away the problems and look toward the Governor Jeb Bush to help open the door to financial aid. Some researchers are saying that there is some life out in the Gulf but for those that go looking they say it is hard to find.
Till the EPA or some other governmental agency steps up to limit the corn boom and the amount of nitrogen flowing into the sea, problems will continue to rise. It may take the voice of the local citizens to speak up, and call on those in office to make the changes. The technology is here today along with better crops to make better “Green” fuels. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture need to make major policy changes to confront this epidemic problem facing the Gulf of Mexico. Many communities in the south are figuring out some of the contributing factors to the red tide and have started legislation to curb the effects of the human element. Corn for bio-fuel needs to be replaced with better, “greener” sources to mitigate the amount of nitrogen and fertilizer run-off from farms into the Mississippi Rivers and other water sources. The technology is here and getting better every day and with the help of the people to push the government to accept and implement better practices to save the environment for the future. More studies need to be done to find the true cost of making Bio-fuels before jumping on a bandwagon and making things worse for those many miles away. Red tide has always been known to be a naturally occurring phenomenon in the Gulf of Mexico, but since the industrial revolution in North America the blooms have been getting larger. The ecosystem is unable to filter the harmful effects and it is happening all over the world. Make your voice heard, find out about how green “green fuels” are and their true cost to the environment. Support laws to lessen the dependency on burning fuel for energy. Start at the home and local communities to make life better for the future and the children.
Just a view of the effects of the Red Tide and the problems effecting the states near the Gulf of Mexico.Video uploaded from the North West Florida Daily News. Found on Brightcove TV. Retrieved March 1 2008 from http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1254115790
Works cited
Clayton, Mark. ( 2006, Mar. 23) "Carbon Cloud Over a Green Fuel.." Christian Science Monitor. Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0323/p01s01-sten.html
DeWitte, David “New source of renewable energy?” Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids, IA), April 11, 2008 Retrieve April 16, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=1&hid=5&sid=a9b9fe02-9942-4c39-a392-e1dad849af1e%40sessionmgr8
Gotfried, Steven. (2007, Sep. 26) Growth Rates of Emission-Fed Algae Show Viability of New Biomass Crop.. Green Fuels. Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://www.greenfuelonline.com/gf_files/GreenFuel%20Growth%20Rates.htm
Lucas, Marlene (2007, May 20) "Fueling research.." Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids, IA). Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=12&hid=120&sid=fbd1891d-0bd7-46dd-93e1-afe51cad3828%40sessionmgr2
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, Oct.18) "Clean water jacked.." Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/17/125453/97
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, Jul. 17) Gulf Dead Zone: bigger than ever.. Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/7/16/161412/560
Salisbury, Susan “Florida Crystals seeks zoning change for ethanol projects” Palm Beach Post, The (FL); March19, 2008 Retrieve April 16, 2008 http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=1&hid=3&sid=8cea3595-cdcd-4e48-ad04-2be4678f87f1%40SRCSM1
Schmid, Randolph E. (2007, OCT. 10) “Ethanol push could threaten water supplies..” The globe and Mail. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071010.weth
Smith, Wes. “Red-tide illnesses studied” Orlando Sentinel, The (FL); 05/20/2007 Retrieve April 16, 2008 http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=2&hid=14&sid=7f811915-0881-4eb1-9119-3626d2cb73e4%40sessionmgr2
Zollo, Cathy. (2005, Aug. 20) "Little left to catch in tainted Gulf.. Red Tide Alert." Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.redtidealert.com/DeadZoneintheGulf.html
Imagine if you will, taking a cruse or being on a charter fishing boat hundreds of miles off the coast of Florida, and all that can be seen for miles around is death. Well in some areas in the Gulf of Mexico that is what it is like. Pollution from the push for more “Green” fuels has put a strangle hold on the fish and the industry that relies on them for their survival. Farmers are happy due to the rich government sponsored programs to get more corn on the market for this “Green” fuel. Although moving to green fuel is good for mitigating the air pollution it is destroying the coastal areas that depend on the fishing industry because Nitrogen rich waters from corn fields increase the growth of harmful algae, there are better crops than corn to produce biomass for fuel, and even with natural weather patterns the problem still exist.
Since the beginning of the Bush administration, the President has called for a decreased dependence on foreign oil and a way to find a greener fuel. That push has led to a growth in the use of corn as bio-diesel. A growth so big that by spring 2007 it has been reported that by combining all the corn fields in North America it would be about the same size as the state of California. (Phoilpott, Tom) The lack of oversight on the farmers and loose laws has helped to create a literal trickle down effect that is damaging the streams, rivers, lakes and oceans around our nation. According to an article by Tom Phoilpott "Clean Water Jacked", those responsible for the enforcement of the laws to protect our lands and waters have handed over the duty to the states and local government. Then they do not check up to ensure the law is followed. Since Corn was the easy choose for many farmers, the crops get bigger. It has even gotten to the point where land that was set aside to naturally replenish itself is being used. The main ingredient to get the corn to grow is synthetic Nitrogen. This is due to the over farming of fields and that corn requires large amounts of nitrogen in the soil to grow. Unfortunately most of this nitrogen is washed out of the fields and into the streams and rivers and on out to the Gulf of Mexico. When the Nitrogen rich waters along with all the other runoff from various sources along the Mississippi River reach the Gulf it mixes with the organisms at the mouths of the water outlets and serves to feed the plant organisms there. It has gotten to a point where the algae in the areas grow rapidly, die, and then fall to the sea floor. This process known as Hypoxia where the oxygen gets depleted from the sea floor up by the decomposing of the dead algae and the organisms that consumes them. (Phoilpott, Tom, “Gulf Dead Zone”) There are many other crops that can be used to make biomass for fuel other than corn. Many have no need for the harmful chemical nitrogen.
Studies and research have and keep finding that there is better ways to make green fuel. The current technology in practice is still just barely able to keep corn as a green fuel (Schmid). What makes it worse is that there are now plants that turn corn into ethanol using 300 tons of coal per day. This is taking a step in the backwards direction from trying to make a clean fuel. (Clayton, Mark) The companies using coal to power the facilities say it is due to the rising cost of fuel. Before they were using clean burning natural gas to power the equipment need to make the corn based ethanol. Even the big oil companies are seeing the profit in helping the research and are working with universities to find the next technological break through.(Lucas, Marlene) There are better crops that produce an outstanding higher percentage fuel rating; 30 to 100 more than corn or soy bean crops. (Gotfried) The new crop that is out producing the other standard crops is algae. The company that is working on this technology, Arizona Public Service Company (APS), plans to replicate the success of algae biomass facility built at a natural gas power plant. The location of the next experimental facility will be next to Arizona’s largest coal burning plant. It works by capturing the cO2 from the plants smoke stacks and giving it to the algae to filter and then using the harvested algae crop to supplement the coal fuel. In Iowa recent negotiations have begun to funding for an algae bio-fuel facility using the byproducts of an ethanol plant. Phase one of the project has been authorized and more talks are going to take place with in the month of April 2008. Iowa is working with the same company as the one that helped get a plant going in Arizona. (DeWitte) Imagine the environmental impact of having algae bio-mass facilities on the roofs of factories world wide. It could open up many job opportunities and serve as an inexpensive way to lessen the carbon foot print of many heavy industrial zones across the globe. New technologies are being looked at to use more diverse bio-mass to make the ethanol fuel like grasses, the whole corn plant, and some types of tree bark. In the State of Florida recent plans to change zoning laws to get ethanol producing fuel plants using sugar cane waste byproducts are under way. Technology developed by a University of Florida Professor is being used in a test bio-fuel plant in Louisiana. Another Test plant is on the drawing board to be put up on University property as it does not require zoning changes. If the University can prove the viability of such Biomass to ethanol plants it will attract investors to the south and use other crops waste instead of food crops. (Salisbury) While the search for better and cleaner ways to find Green fuel for North America’s needs, the waters in the south are relying on an over stressed and failing ecosystem to filter out the nitrogen. Even with natural weather patterns the problems still exist.
In the last few years several hurricanes passed through the area string up every thing around. The power of those storms pushed the effected waters around but has not broken them down. The natural tides have been so over whelmed with the in flux that it is unable to wash out the junk and nitrogen. All these problems are known to the government but the policies were made a long time ago nothing is being changed about it. The problems are getting worse, known locally as Red Tide due to the type of algae in the Gulf Coast, in many coastal areas the winds are blowing some of the algae toxins inland causing irritation to eyes and respiration. As well as all the dead and decomposing fish that wash up on many miles of shore every day during and after the Red Tide season. The Red Tide has many effects on the environment and local economies. Health official are still doing studies and research on the many source of the problems effecting humans along the coast. Testing is looking for any long term problems and if the hospital visits are a result of a decreased immune system. (Smith) In recent years people have begun to notice the direct effect of red tide blooms and animals getting sick. The businesses along the coast are suffering as news spread about the toxic clouds floating over beach communities causing tourism to drop. Some residents have even sold their homes and move to get away from the coast due to health issues. The fishing industry is on the ropes due to the problems happening in the Gulf. Some boats have not gone out, most preferring to stay docked to save on gas. Many of the boats that do go out find that their once abundant fishing spots are completely void of life or just have a few bait fish. In a report about Florida billing itself as the "fishing capital of the world", (Zollo) the fishing has dried up. Many charter boats that depend on the Gulf for income have found that their best fishing spots are dead from the sea floor up. Most boats have been staying in hoping that the currents wash away the problems and look toward the Governor Jeb Bush to help open the door to financial aid. Some researchers are saying that there is some life out in the Gulf but for those that go looking they say it is hard to find.
Till the EPA or some other governmental agency steps up to limit the corn boom and the amount of nitrogen flowing into the sea, problems will continue to rise. It may take the voice of the local citizens to speak up, and call on those in office to make the changes. The technology is here today along with better crops to make better “Green” fuels. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture need to make major policy changes to confront this epidemic problem facing the Gulf of Mexico. Many communities in the south are figuring out some of the contributing factors to the red tide and have started legislation to curb the effects of the human element. Corn for bio-fuel needs to be replaced with better, “greener” sources to mitigate the amount of nitrogen and fertilizer run-off from farms into the Mississippi Rivers and other water sources. The technology is here and getting better every day and with the help of the people to push the government to accept and implement better practices to save the environment for the future. More studies need to be done to find the true cost of making Bio-fuels before jumping on a bandwagon and making things worse for those many miles away. Red tide has always been known to be a naturally occurring phenomenon in the Gulf of Mexico, but since the industrial revolution in North America the blooms have been getting larger. The ecosystem is unable to filter the harmful effects and it is happening all over the world. Make your voice heard, find out about how green “green fuels” are and their true cost to the environment. Support laws to lessen the dependency on burning fuel for energy. Start at the home and local communities to make life better for the future and the children.
Just a view of the effects of the Red Tide and the problems effecting the states near the Gulf of Mexico.Video uploaded from the North West Florida Daily News. Found on Brightcove TV. Retrieved March 1 2008 from http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1254115790
Works cited
Clayton, Mark. ( 2006, Mar. 23) "Carbon Cloud Over a Green Fuel.." Christian Science Monitor. Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0323/p01s01-sten.html
DeWitte, David “New source of renewable energy?” Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids, IA), April 11, 2008 Retrieve April 16, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=1&hid=5&sid=a9b9fe02-9942-4c39-a392-e1dad849af1e%40sessionmgr8
Gotfried, Steven. (2007, Sep. 26) Growth Rates of Emission-Fed Algae Show Viability of New Biomass Crop.. Green Fuels. Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://www.greenfuelonline.com/gf_files/GreenFuel%20Growth%20Rates.htm
Lucas, Marlene (2007, May 20) "Fueling research.." Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids, IA). Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=12&hid=120&sid=fbd1891d-0bd7-46dd-93e1-afe51cad3828%40sessionmgr2
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, Oct.18) "Clean water jacked.." Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/17/125453/97
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, Jul. 17) Gulf Dead Zone: bigger than ever.. Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/7/16/161412/560
Salisbury, Susan “Florida Crystals seeks zoning change for ethanol projects” Palm Beach Post, The (FL); March19, 2008 Retrieve April 16, 2008 http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=1&hid=3&sid=8cea3595-cdcd-4e48-ad04-2be4678f87f1%40SRCSM1
Schmid, Randolph E. (2007, OCT. 10) “Ethanol push could threaten water supplies..” The globe and Mail. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071010.weth
Smith, Wes. “Red-tide illnesses studied” Orlando Sentinel, The (FL); 05/20/2007 Retrieve April 16, 2008 http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=2&hid=14&sid=7f811915-0881-4eb1-9119-3626d2cb73e4%40sessionmgr2
Zollo, Cathy. (2005, Aug. 20) "Little left to catch in tainted Gulf.. Red Tide Alert." Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.redtidealert.com/DeadZoneintheGulf.html
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Research Draft 2
Putting Death in the Seas so that people can drive their SUVs.
Imagine if you will, taking a cruse or being on a charter fishing boat hundreds of miles of the coast of Florida, and all that can be seen for miles around is death. Well in some areas in the Gulf of Mexico that is what it is like. Pollution from the push for more “Green” fuels has put a strangle hold on the fish and the industry that relies on them for their survival. Farmers are happy due to the rich government sponsored programs to get more corn on the market for this “Green” fuel. Although moving to green fuel is good for mitigating the air pollution it is destroying the coastal areas that depend on the fishing industry because Nitrogen rich waters from corn fields increase the growth of harmful algae, there are better crops than corn to produce biomass for fuel, and even with natural weather patterns the problem still exist.
Since the beginning of the Bush administration, the President has called for a decreased dependence on foreign oil and a way to find a greener fuel. That push has led to a growth in the use of corn as bio-diesel. A growth so big that by spring 2007 it has been reported that by combining all the corn fields in North America it would be about the same size as the state of California. (Phoilpott, Tom) The lack oversight on the farmers and loose laws has helped to create a literal trickle down effect that is damaging the streams, rivers, lakes and oceans around our nation. According to an article by Tom Phoilpott Clean Water Jacked, those responsible for the enforcement of the laws to protect our lands and waters have handed over the duty to the states and local government. Then they do not check up to ensure the law is followed. Since Corn was the easy choose for many farmers, the crops get bigger. It has even gotten to the point where land that was set aside to naturally replenish itself is being used. The main ingredient to get the corn to grow is synthetic Nitrogen. This is due to the over farming of fields and that corn requires large amounts of nitrogen in the soil to grow. Unfourtenly most of this nitrogen is washed out of the fields and into the streams and rivers and on out to the Gulf of Mexico. When the Nitrogen rich waters along with all the other runoff from various sources along the way reach the Gulf it mixes with the organisms at the mouths of the water outlets and serve to feed the plant organisms. It has gotten to a point where the algae in the areas grow rapidly, die, and then fall to the sea floor. In a process known as Hypoxia, where the oxygen gets depleted by the decomposing of the dead algae and the organisms that consumes them. (Phoilpott, Tom) from the sea floor up. There are many other crops that can be used to make biomass for fuel other than corn. Many have no need for the harmful chemical nitrogen.
Studies and research have and keep finding that there is better ways to make green fuel. The current technology in practice is still just barely able to keep corn as a green fuel (Schmid). What makes it worse is that there are now plants that turn corn into ethanol using 300 tons of coal per day. This is taking a step in the backwards direction from trying to make a clean fuel. (Clayton, Mark) The companies using coal to power the facilities say it is due to the rising cost of fuel. Before they were using clean burning natural gas to power the equipment need to make the corn based ethanol. Even the big oil companies are seeing the profit in helping the research and are working with universities for find the next technological break through.(Lucas, Marlene) There are better crops that produce an outstanding higher percentage fuel rating; 30 to 100 more than corn or soy bean crops. (Gotfried) The new crop that is out producing the other standard crops is algae. The company that is working on this technology, Arizona Public Service Company (APS), plans to replicate the success of algae biomass facility built at a natural gas power plant. The location of the next experimental facility will be next to Arizona’s largest coal burning plant. It works by capturing the cO2 from the plants smoke stacks and giving it to the algae to filter and then using the harvested algae crop to supplement the coal fuel. New technologies are being looked at to use more diverse bio-mass to make the ethanol fuel like grasses, the whole corn plant, and some types of tree bark. While the search for better, cleaner ways to fuel north Americas needs the waters in the south are relying on an over stressed ecosystem to filter out the nitrogen. Even with natural weather patterns the problems still exist.
In the last few years several hurricanes passed through the area string up every thing around. The power of those storms pushed the effected waters around but has not broken them down. The natural tides have been so over whelmed with the in flux that it is unable to wash out the junk and nitrogen. All these problems are known to the government but the policies were made a long time ago nothing is being changed about it. The problems are getting worse, known locally as Red Tide, in many costal areas the winds are blowing some of the algae inland causing irritation to eyes and respiration. As well as all the dead and decomposing fish that wash up on many miles of shore every day during and after the Red Tide season. The fishing industry is on the ropes due to the problems happening in the Gulf. Some boats have not gone out, most preferring to stay docked to save on gas. Many of the boats that do go out find that their once abundant fishing spots are completely void of life or just have a few bait fish. In a report about Florida billing itself as the "fishing capital of the world", the fishing has dried up. Many charter boats that depend on the Gulf for income have found that their best fishing spots are dead from the floor up. Most boats have been staying in hoping that the currents wash away the problems and look toward the Governor Jeb Bush to help open the door to financial aid. Some researchers are saying that there is some life out in the Gulf but for those that go looking they say it is hard to find.
Till the EPA or some other governmental agency steps up to limit the corn boom and the amount of nitrogen flowing into the sea, problems will continue to rise. It may take the voice of the local citizens to speak up, and call on those in office to make the changes. The technology is here today along with better crops to make better “Green” fuels. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture need to make major policy changes to confront this epidemic problem facing the Gulf of Mexico.
Just a view of the effects of the Red Tide and the problems effecting the states near the Gulf of Mexico.Video uploaded from the North West Florida Daily News. Found on Brightcove TV. Retrieved March 1 2008 from http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1254115790
Works cited
Clayton, Mark. ( 2006, Mar. 23) Carbon Cloud Over a Green Fuel.. Christian Science Monitor. Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0323/p01s01-sten.html
Gotfried, Steven. (2007, Sep. 26) Growth Rates of Emission-Fed Algae Show Viability of New Biomass Crop.. Green Fuels. Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://www.greenfuelonline.com/gf_files/GreenFuel%20Growth%20Rates.htm
Lucas, Marlene (2007, May 20) Fueling research.. Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids, IA). Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=12&hid=120&sid=fbd1891d-0bd7-46dd-93e1-afe51cad3828%40sessionmgr2
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, Oct.18) Clean water jacked.. Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/17/125453/97
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, Jul. 17) Gulf Dead Zone: bigger than ever.. Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/7/16/161412/560
Schmid, Randolph E. (2007, OCT. 10) Ethanol push could threaten water supplies.. The globe and Mail. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071010.wethanol1010/BNStory/Science/home
Imagine if you will, taking a cruse or being on a charter fishing boat hundreds of miles of the coast of Florida, and all that can be seen for miles around is death. Well in some areas in the Gulf of Mexico that is what it is like. Pollution from the push for more “Green” fuels has put a strangle hold on the fish and the industry that relies on them for their survival. Farmers are happy due to the rich government sponsored programs to get more corn on the market for this “Green” fuel. Although moving to green fuel is good for mitigating the air pollution it is destroying the coastal areas that depend on the fishing industry because Nitrogen rich waters from corn fields increase the growth of harmful algae, there are better crops than corn to produce biomass for fuel, and even with natural weather patterns the problem still exist.
Since the beginning of the Bush administration, the President has called for a decreased dependence on foreign oil and a way to find a greener fuel. That push has led to a growth in the use of corn as bio-diesel. A growth so big that by spring 2007 it has been reported that by combining all the corn fields in North America it would be about the same size as the state of California. (Phoilpott, Tom) The lack oversight on the farmers and loose laws has helped to create a literal trickle down effect that is damaging the streams, rivers, lakes and oceans around our nation. According to an article by Tom Phoilpott Clean Water Jacked, those responsible for the enforcement of the laws to protect our lands and waters have handed over the duty to the states and local government. Then they do not check up to ensure the law is followed. Since Corn was the easy choose for many farmers, the crops get bigger. It has even gotten to the point where land that was set aside to naturally replenish itself is being used. The main ingredient to get the corn to grow is synthetic Nitrogen. This is due to the over farming of fields and that corn requires large amounts of nitrogen in the soil to grow. Unfourtenly most of this nitrogen is washed out of the fields and into the streams and rivers and on out to the Gulf of Mexico. When the Nitrogen rich waters along with all the other runoff from various sources along the way reach the Gulf it mixes with the organisms at the mouths of the water outlets and serve to feed the plant organisms. It has gotten to a point where the algae in the areas grow rapidly, die, and then fall to the sea floor. In a process known as Hypoxia, where the oxygen gets depleted by the decomposing of the dead algae and the organisms that consumes them. (Phoilpott, Tom) from the sea floor up. There are many other crops that can be used to make biomass for fuel other than corn. Many have no need for the harmful chemical nitrogen.
Studies and research have and keep finding that there is better ways to make green fuel. The current technology in practice is still just barely able to keep corn as a green fuel (Schmid). What makes it worse is that there are now plants that turn corn into ethanol using 300 tons of coal per day. This is taking a step in the backwards direction from trying to make a clean fuel. (Clayton, Mark) The companies using coal to power the facilities say it is due to the rising cost of fuel. Before they were using clean burning natural gas to power the equipment need to make the corn based ethanol. Even the big oil companies are seeing the profit in helping the research and are working with universities for find the next technological break through.(Lucas, Marlene) There are better crops that produce an outstanding higher percentage fuel rating; 30 to 100 more than corn or soy bean crops. (Gotfried) The new crop that is out producing the other standard crops is algae. The company that is working on this technology, Arizona Public Service Company (APS), plans to replicate the success of algae biomass facility built at a natural gas power plant. The location of the next experimental facility will be next to Arizona’s largest coal burning plant. It works by capturing the cO2 from the plants smoke stacks and giving it to the algae to filter and then using the harvested algae crop to supplement the coal fuel. New technologies are being looked at to use more diverse bio-mass to make the ethanol fuel like grasses, the whole corn plant, and some types of tree bark. While the search for better, cleaner ways to fuel north Americas needs the waters in the south are relying on an over stressed ecosystem to filter out the nitrogen. Even with natural weather patterns the problems still exist.
In the last few years several hurricanes passed through the area string up every thing around. The power of those storms pushed the effected waters around but has not broken them down. The natural tides have been so over whelmed with the in flux that it is unable to wash out the junk and nitrogen. All these problems are known to the government but the policies were made a long time ago nothing is being changed about it. The problems are getting worse, known locally as Red Tide, in many costal areas the winds are blowing some of the algae inland causing irritation to eyes and respiration. As well as all the dead and decomposing fish that wash up on many miles of shore every day during and after the Red Tide season. The fishing industry is on the ropes due to the problems happening in the Gulf. Some boats have not gone out, most preferring to stay docked to save on gas. Many of the boats that do go out find that their once abundant fishing spots are completely void of life or just have a few bait fish. In a report about Florida billing itself as the "fishing capital of the world", the fishing has dried up. Many charter boats that depend on the Gulf for income have found that their best fishing spots are dead from the floor up. Most boats have been staying in hoping that the currents wash away the problems and look toward the Governor Jeb Bush to help open the door to financial aid. Some researchers are saying that there is some life out in the Gulf but for those that go looking they say it is hard to find.
Till the EPA or some other governmental agency steps up to limit the corn boom and the amount of nitrogen flowing into the sea, problems will continue to rise. It may take the voice of the local citizens to speak up, and call on those in office to make the changes. The technology is here today along with better crops to make better “Green” fuels. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture need to make major policy changes to confront this epidemic problem facing the Gulf of Mexico.
Just a view of the effects of the Red Tide and the problems effecting the states near the Gulf of Mexico.Video uploaded from the North West Florida Daily News. Found on Brightcove TV. Retrieved March 1 2008 from http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1254115790
Works cited
Clayton, Mark. ( 2006, Mar. 23) Carbon Cloud Over a Green Fuel.. Christian Science Monitor. Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0323/p01s01-sten.html
Gotfried, Steven. (2007, Sep. 26) Growth Rates of Emission-Fed Algae Show Viability of New Biomass Crop.. Green Fuels. Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://www.greenfuelonline.com/gf_files/GreenFuel%20Growth%20Rates.htm
Lucas, Marlene (2007, May 20) Fueling research.. Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids, IA). Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=12&hid=120&sid=fbd1891d-0bd7-46dd-93e1-afe51cad3828%40sessionmgr2
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, Oct.18) Clean water jacked.. Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/17/125453/97
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, Jul. 17) Gulf Dead Zone: bigger than ever.. Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/7/16/161412/560
Schmid, Randolph E. (2007, OCT. 10) Ethanol push could threaten water supplies.. The globe and Mail. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071010.wethanol1010/BNStory/Science/home
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Research Draft 1
Putting Death in the Seas so that you can drive your SUVs.
Imagine, if you will, taking a cruse or being on a charter fishing boat hundreds of miles of the coast of Florida, and all that can be seen for miles around is death. Well in some areas in the Gulf of Mexico that is what it is like. Pollution from the push for more “Green” fuels has put a strangle hold on the fish and the industry that relies on them for their survival. Farmers are happy due to the rich government sponsored programs to get more corn on the market.
Although moving to green fuel is good for mitigating the air pollution it is destroying the coastal areas that depend on the fishing industry because Nitrogen rich waters from corn fields increase the growth of harmful algae, there are better crops than corn to produce biomass for fuel, and even with natural weather patterns the problem still exist.
Nitrogen rich waters from corn fields increase the growth of harmful algae
Since the beginning of the Bush administration, the President has called for a decreased dependence on foreign oil and a way to find a greener fuel. That push has led to a growth in the use of corn as bio-diesel. A growth so big that by spring 2007 it has been reported that by combining all the corn fields in North America it would be about the same size as the state of California. (cite source Phoilpott, Tom) The lack oversight on the farmers and loose laws has helped to create a trickle down effect that is damaging the oceans around our nation. According to (look at bib) those responsible for the enforcement of the laws to protect our lands and waters have handed over the duty to the states and local government. Then they do not check up to ensure the law is followed. Since Corn was the easy choose for many farmers, the crops get bigger. It has even gotten to the point where land that was set aside to naturally replenish itself is being used. The main ingredient to get the corn to grow is synthetic Nitrogen. This is due to the over farming of fields and that corn requires large amounts of nitrogen in the soil to grow. Unfortenly most of this nitrogen is washed out of the fields and into the streams and rivers and on out to the Gulf of Mexico. When the Nitrogen rich waters along with all the other runoff from various sources along the way reach the Gulf it mixes with the organisms at the mouths of the water outlets and serve to feed the plant organisms. It has gotten to a point where the algae in the areas grow rapidly, die, and then fall to the sea floor. In a process known as Hypoxia, where the oxygen gets depleted by the decomposing of the dead algae and the organisms that consumes them. (cite source Phoilpott, Tom)
What makes it worse is that there are now plants that turn corn into ethanol using 300 tons of coal per day. This is taking a step in the backwards direction from trying to make a clean fuel. (Clayton, Mark)
there are better crops than corn to produce biomass for fuel
Studies and research have and keep finding that there is better ways to make green fuel. The current technology in practice is still just barely able to keep corn as a green fuel (Schmid). Even the big oil companies are seeing the profit in helping the research and are working with universities for find the next technological break through. There are better crops that produce an outstanding higher percentage fuel rating; 30 to 100 more than corn or soy bean crops. (Gotfried) New technologies are being looked at to use more diverse bio-mass to make the ethanol fuel like grasses, the whole corn plant, and some types of tree bark. Well I have lost train of though on this and internet connection. I still have to deal with problems at home and on top of all this I need to find a Lawyer. If anyone reads this part it is just me free writing to get all the crap out so I can get back to work. I would like it very much to find the phone number to Reta Lee (a divorce lawyer) so I can find out what my rights are and better take care of my son. The ex was going to move here with me and my son but then grabbed him and said that she will not move. Mind you I moved to Florida to help with family here I believed that she would also move south to be near her dieing father. She has told me that because she is getting her degree in K-12 education she would be better able to take care of any problems in his education. She has also been going to school for the past ten years to get this four year degree. I keep thinking what about the PTA and the fact that I was able to successfully teach him basic sign language at under a year old. The kid is also one year from kindergarten and the schools here are top in the state with some top in the nation. She also brought up the weather that happens here like hurricanes, tornados, and floods. She also said famine which messed up my thinking on the whole conversation. I did say that living in Alaska has its problems like winter for almost more than half the year. She augured that the state has programs to keep heating fuel in the home. That is fine but for the times people go out side to play or get stuck on the side of the road with a dead car. Just a small fact; in this area flooding and tornados are caused by hurricanes and the season is very short with many days notice to get out of town. If every home, along with all my family here gets wiped out I could go move to my father-in-laws house. Last thing I keep hearing from her is that she does not trust me with my son. This is what gets my goat about it all! After he stopped breast feeding she went back to work and school, fine, if I worked I took him to daycare and picked him up after. When I stopped working to go full time to school again I had him most of the time. I spent most our time together playing outside in the summer and finding indoor things in the winter. Playing at the beach year round is much better than freezing your butt looking for the few run around places to take kids in Fairbanks. I sometimes felt like a convent babysitter that was expected to clean up after her. Just think of a complete role reversal for man and woman of old. Like the housewives of old I wanted help cleaning up, not seeing her sit in front of the television and telling me to get my son because she had a hard day, raising kids is a full time job also. Towards the end I she would wake up before us and either not come home till after our son went to bed or not at all. At the very end more things of a personal nature went on, and I do not want to air that much dirty laundry, but it is public record just go to the courts. So after three and a half years of me being the primary caregiver to my son, paying rent, utilities, insurance, and going to school. How can she say that she does not trust me to care for him? Some of the things I hear about why I do not have that trust is that I do not tell her every move I make, I saved money by living with my dad for a few months when I move to Florida with my son, I say I will do some things and then problems arise that force delays or speed things up in my actions, and that I am trying to screw her over every chance I get.
Listening to the Beatles, “We can work it out” is how I feel at times. I do not want to take my son from her. We had an agreement made with the help of a court ordered mediator that my son would move here and then she will and we both would share custody. I left Alaska with my son last year before winter so that I did not have to suffer with my frostbite, so that my son can have a chance to grow up in a warmer environment, and a place where he does not have to worry about his allergies to cotton wood trees in Fairbanks. He is also much closer to all his grandparents and most of his extended family. I do want my son to go to school in my care. I can not be with out him for to much time. I am established with a home. I go to school and can work a part time job during the time he is in school. A part time job is all I need to keep a home and food on the table in a safe and growing environment and still be there to play when he is not in school. He is four now and the only thing he needs to worry about is to wear shoes at the beach or not, to go swimming in the sun with his playmates or running though the woods with his cousins.
even with natural weather patterns the problem still exist.
Video uploaded from the North West Florida Daily News. Found on Brightcove TV. Retrieved March 1 2008 from http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1254115790 Just a view of the effects of the Red Tide and the problems effecting the states near the Gulf of Mexico.
Citations
"Source: Greenpeace (http://www.greenpeace.org)" Creeping dead zones.. Greenpeace. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/pollution/creeping-dead-zones
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, Jul. 17) Gulf Dead Zone: bigger than ever.. Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/7/16/161412/560
Schmid, Randolph E. (2007, OCT. 10) Ethanol push could threaten water supplies.. The globe and Mail. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071010.wethanol1010/BNStory/Science/home
Putting Death in the Seas so that you can drive your SUVs.
Imagine, if you will, taking a cruse or being on a charter fishing boat hundreds of miles of the coast of Florida, and all that can be seen for miles around is death. Well in some areas in the Gulf of Mexico that is what it is like. Pollution from the push for more “Green” fuels has put a strangle hold on the fish and the industry that relies on them for their survival. Farmers are happy due to the rich government sponsored programs to get more corn on the market.
Although moving to green fuel is good for mitigating the air pollution it is destroying the coastal areas that depend on the fishing industry because Nitrogen rich waters from corn fields increase the growth of harmful algae, there are better crops than corn to produce biomass for fuel, and even with natural weather patterns the problem still exist.
Nitrogen rich waters from corn fields increase the growth of harmful algae
Since the beginning of the Bush administration, the President has called for a decreased dependence on foreign oil and a way to find a greener fuel. That push has led to a growth in the use of corn as bio-diesel. A growth so big that by spring 2007 it has been reported that by combining all the corn fields in North America it would be about the same size as the state of California. (cite source Phoilpott, Tom) The lack oversight on the farmers and loose laws has helped to create a trickle down effect that is damaging the oceans around our nation. According to (look at bib) those responsible for the enforcement of the laws to protect our lands and waters have handed over the duty to the states and local government. Then they do not check up to ensure the law is followed. Since Corn was the easy choose for many farmers, the crops get bigger. It has even gotten to the point where land that was set aside to naturally replenish itself is being used. The main ingredient to get the corn to grow is synthetic Nitrogen. This is due to the over farming of fields and that corn requires large amounts of nitrogen in the soil to grow. Unfortenly most of this nitrogen is washed out of the fields and into the streams and rivers and on out to the Gulf of Mexico. When the Nitrogen rich waters along with all the other runoff from various sources along the way reach the Gulf it mixes with the organisms at the mouths of the water outlets and serve to feed the plant organisms. It has gotten to a point where the algae in the areas grow rapidly, die, and then fall to the sea floor. In a process known as Hypoxia, where the oxygen gets depleted by the decomposing of the dead algae and the organisms that consumes them. (cite source Phoilpott, Tom)
What makes it worse is that there are now plants that turn corn into ethanol using 300 tons of coal per day. This is taking a step in the backwards direction from trying to make a clean fuel. (Clayton, Mark)
there are better crops than corn to produce biomass for fuel
Studies and research have and keep finding that there is better ways to make green fuel. The current technology in practice is still just barely able to keep corn as a green fuel (Schmid). Even the big oil companies are seeing the profit in helping the research and are working with universities for find the next technological break through. There are better crops that produce an outstanding higher percentage fuel rating; 30 to 100 more than corn or soy bean crops. (Gotfried) New technologies are being looked at to use more diverse bio-mass to make the ethanol fuel like grasses, the whole corn plant, and some types of tree bark. Well I have lost train of though on this and internet connection. I still have to deal with problems at home and on top of all this I need to find a Lawyer. If anyone reads this part it is just me free writing to get all the crap out so I can get back to work. I would like it very much to find the phone number to Reta Lee (a divorce lawyer) so I can find out what my rights are and better take care of my son. The ex was going to move here with me and my son but then grabbed him and said that she will not move. Mind you I moved to Florida to help with family here I believed that she would also move south to be near her dieing father. She has told me that because she is getting her degree in K-12 education she would be better able to take care of any problems in his education. She has also been going to school for the past ten years to get this four year degree. I keep thinking what about the PTA and the fact that I was able to successfully teach him basic sign language at under a year old. The kid is also one year from kindergarten and the schools here are top in the state with some top in the nation. She also brought up the weather that happens here like hurricanes, tornados, and floods. She also said famine which messed up my thinking on the whole conversation. I did say that living in Alaska has its problems like winter for almost more than half the year. She augured that the state has programs to keep heating fuel in the home. That is fine but for the times people go out side to play or get stuck on the side of the road with a dead car. Just a small fact; in this area flooding and tornados are caused by hurricanes and the season is very short with many days notice to get out of town. If every home, along with all my family here gets wiped out I could go move to my father-in-laws house. Last thing I keep hearing from her is that she does not trust me with my son. This is what gets my goat about it all! After he stopped breast feeding she went back to work and school, fine, if I worked I took him to daycare and picked him up after. When I stopped working to go full time to school again I had him most of the time. I spent most our time together playing outside in the summer and finding indoor things in the winter. Playing at the beach year round is much better than freezing your butt looking for the few run around places to take kids in Fairbanks. I sometimes felt like a convent babysitter that was expected to clean up after her. Just think of a complete role reversal for man and woman of old. Like the housewives of old I wanted help cleaning up, not seeing her sit in front of the television and telling me to get my son because she had a hard day, raising kids is a full time job also. Towards the end I she would wake up before us and either not come home till after our son went to bed or not at all. At the very end more things of a personal nature went on, and I do not want to air that much dirty laundry, but it is public record just go to the courts. So after three and a half years of me being the primary caregiver to my son, paying rent, utilities, insurance, and going to school. How can she say that she does not trust me to care for him? Some of the things I hear about why I do not have that trust is that I do not tell her every move I make, I saved money by living with my dad for a few months when I move to Florida with my son, I say I will do some things and then problems arise that force delays or speed things up in my actions, and that I am trying to screw her over every chance I get.
Listening to the Beatles, “We can work it out” is how I feel at times. I do not want to take my son from her. We had an agreement made with the help of a court ordered mediator that my son would move here and then she will and we both would share custody. I left Alaska with my son last year before winter so that I did not have to suffer with my frostbite, so that my son can have a chance to grow up in a warmer environment, and a place where he does not have to worry about his allergies to cotton wood trees in Fairbanks. He is also much closer to all his grandparents and most of his extended family. I do want my son to go to school in my care. I can not be with out him for to much time. I am established with a home. I go to school and can work a part time job during the time he is in school. A part time job is all I need to keep a home and food on the table in a safe and growing environment and still be there to play when he is not in school. He is four now and the only thing he needs to worry about is to wear shoes at the beach or not, to go swimming in the sun with his playmates or running though the woods with his cousins.
even with natural weather patterns the problem still exist.
Video uploaded from the North West Florida Daily News. Found on Brightcove TV. Retrieved March 1 2008 from http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1254115790 Just a view of the effects of the Red Tide and the problems effecting the states near the Gulf of Mexico.
Citations
"Source: Greenpeace (http://www.greenpeace.org)" Creeping dead zones.. Greenpeace. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/pollution/creeping-dead-zones
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, Jul. 17) Gulf Dead Zone: bigger than ever.. Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/7/16/161412/560
Schmid, Randolph E. (2007, OCT. 10) Ethanol push could threaten water supplies.. The globe and Mail. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071010.wethanol1010/BNStory/Science/home
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
week 8 post
Episode 49 of Grammar Girl.
Most of the time, I do not find run-on sentences in my writing. Of course phone text is different due to lack of space and number of letters allowed at one time. Again my grammar is directly tied to my comprehension of the spoken English language. In other words if it sounds wrong it most likely is wrong to me. Also when I write I am talking to myself in my head. I do not always think before I speak to myself, it just flows inside up there. I would like to think that I have a good handle on this type of grammar structure and the problems associated with it. I wonder how many run-on sentences can be found in a typical Rap song. I think poems can also get away with this sort of grammar error. Trying to think of what other forms of writing can basically skip on correct grammar. I guess that is enough of a distraction, it is time to get back to the crappy ruff draft.
Most of the time, I do not find run-on sentences in my writing. Of course phone text is different due to lack of space and number of letters allowed at one time. Again my grammar is directly tied to my comprehension of the spoken English language. In other words if it sounds wrong it most likely is wrong to me. Also when I write I am talking to myself in my head. I do not always think before I speak to myself, it just flows inside up there. I would like to think that I have a good handle on this type of grammar structure and the problems associated with it. I wonder how many run-on sentences can be found in a typical Rap song. I think poems can also get away with this sort of grammar error. Trying to think of what other forms of writing can basically skip on correct grammar. I guess that is enough of a distraction, it is time to get back to the crappy ruff draft.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Thesis for a solution Essay Two
Thesis for a solution Essay Two
Only one hundred and fifty feet separates you from the Gulf of Mexico and Fun in the sun.
If you had a chose between going twenty-five slow miles East or West just to get out to sea or just going through a man made pass strait in to the Gulf of Mexico, what would you chose? In a little town called Navarre Beach, Florida there has been some debate as to the opening of a pass to the Gulf of Mexico. Navarre is protected by a barrier island stretching about Fifty-two miles, and the town of Navarre happens to be at the center of this area with which the only other access to the Gulf of Mexico being the Destin pass to the East and the Pensacola pass to the West. Although some residents fear over development of the area, the city of Navarre beach should reopen up the access to the Gulf of Mexico because it will bring more business opportunities to the area, the city has been and is almost finished preparing the infrastructure, and to flush out the sound through natural tides.
In the summer of 1965 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dug a pass to the Gulf of Mexico. A few months later a hurricane closed it back up before any reinforcement, large rocks also known as Jetties, could be put in place to protect from the sand filling back in. Reopening the pass will have a high effect on the area as far as tourism goes. It will also increase the attraction for the locals to staying the area when more businesses move in. As it stands now the town of Navarre is mostly populated by the military bases near by as well as those that work in the two adjacent counties. While some people fear that the sky line will be over taken by huge hotels and condos, there is not much room for such large structures on the sound side, and there are already condos on the barrier island. In 2004 the city council and the community came together to visualize the future of the town of Navarre and to make recommendations for improvement. (Hayes) This document is the biggest step in the right direction to prevent over developing the community while bringing business opportunities to the town. More laws could also be put in place to protect from over development. With the inclusion of a pass to the Gulf of Mexico there will be some migration of the fishing industry, hotels and the food service will grow, and the housing market will pick back up. Business will move in the area to support the influx of tourist to the area which will have an effect on the local population. Locals can stay in the area instead of having to travel out side the county, keeping the money and taxes in the county. Community support and input can help shape the future with the help of the local government to work and finish the infrastructure.
The community of Navarre Florida has been growing increasingly in over the past four years. New housing subdivisions, schools, highway improvements, commercial and professional business parks have been erected all over the area. With the community involvement to protect the look of the peaceful area and the county backing it up they have been working on the infrastructure to prepare for the future. Time lines have been set up and the area is getting on track. One proposed idea that will help the town of Navarre get a Pass to the Gulf of Mexico is to incorporate. The town of Navarre is currently governed by the county and so has to share its resources and wait on the demands of the whole county. Most changes must also be approved by the whole county many of whom have no vested interest in this small town. Resent News coverage has stated that the Army Core of Engineers has been asked to look into seeing if there is a federal interest in the opening of the Navarre Beach pass. With the help of the Army Core of Engineers the county will have to shoulder less of the financial burden of building the pass and focuses on finishing the infrastructure of the area. Johnny Grandison of the Mobile office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said “if supporters can identify a federal interest in a pass, economically or environmentally, the Corps might be able to pay for the project” (Cooper, paragragh 25-26) Also with the involvement of the Corps they will have the burden of responsibility to maintain it for the next fifty years from any “acts of God” (Navarrepass.com) Opening the Pass can also help with the flushing of the sound.
With the opening of a pass in to the Gulf of Mexico there will be some changes to the ecological environment in the center of the fifty plus mile stretch of Bearer Island and the sound it protects. The area currently is home to many forms of sea grasses and small fish. The water is also stagnate, and the storm runoff takes a long time to naturally flush out. Some worry that the opening of a pass to the Gulf would damage the sea grasses in the sound due to most the extra salt water from the Gulf, but researchers have found that the water in the sound has about the same salinity levels as in the Gulf (Destin Log, Paragraph six) In fact most researchers do not know the full impacts of cutting a new pass into the sound and more research needs to be done. But cutting a pass can be done.
Putting an access point to the Gulf of Mexico in Navarre Beach will help the local economy by bringing new business opportunities. The town is on track with building the infrastructure, and the sound could use the environmental benefits of the natural flushing that the pass can provide. The biggest step to help make this dream a reality is to contact the governor and local politicians and let them know it has support of the community and the second step is to vote for the incorporation of the town of Navarre Beach, Florida to take the control of the project out of the counties hands and in the hands of the community that the pass will benefit the most.
Works Cited
Cooper, Louis “Forging a new pass” Pensacola News Journal Published - February, 9, 2008 accessed March 19, 2008 http://gulfcoastgateway.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080209/NEWS01/802090312/1126/NEWS0503
Hayes, Franklin “County, Navarre push forward with new Town Center” Gulf Breeze News February 09, 2006 accessed March 19, 2008 http://www.gulfbreezenews.com/news/2006/0209/Front_Page/006.html
“There's talk in Navarre about a Navarre Pass” The Destin Log by Florida Freedom Newspapers June 04, 2007 (Paragraph six, The science of a pass), accessed March 19, 2008 http://www.thedestinlog.com/articles/article.print.db.php?a=1371
Navarre Pass. “2-11-08 PR News>>” Navarre Pohlmann Pass Committee February 11, 2008 Paragraph four http://www.navarrepass.com/news_2_11_08_text.html
Only one hundred and fifty feet separates you from the Gulf of Mexico and Fun in the sun.
If you had a chose between going twenty-five slow miles East or West just to get out to sea or just going through a man made pass strait in to the Gulf of Mexico, what would you chose? In a little town called Navarre Beach, Florida there has been some debate as to the opening of a pass to the Gulf of Mexico. Navarre is protected by a barrier island stretching about Fifty-two miles, and the town of Navarre happens to be at the center of this area with which the only other access to the Gulf of Mexico being the Destin pass to the East and the Pensacola pass to the West. Although some residents fear over development of the area, the city of Navarre beach should reopen up the access to the Gulf of Mexico because it will bring more business opportunities to the area, the city has been and is almost finished preparing the infrastructure, and to flush out the sound through natural tides.
In the summer of 1965 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dug a pass to the Gulf of Mexico. A few months later a hurricane closed it back up before any reinforcement, large rocks also known as Jetties, could be put in place to protect from the sand filling back in. Reopening the pass will have a high effect on the area as far as tourism goes. It will also increase the attraction for the locals to staying the area when more businesses move in. As it stands now the town of Navarre is mostly populated by the military bases near by as well as those that work in the two adjacent counties. While some people fear that the sky line will be over taken by huge hotels and condos, there is not much room for such large structures on the sound side, and there are already condos on the barrier island. In 2004 the city council and the community came together to visualize the future of the town of Navarre and to make recommendations for improvement. (Hayes) This document is the biggest step in the right direction to prevent over developing the community while bringing business opportunities to the town. More laws could also be put in place to protect from over development. With the inclusion of a pass to the Gulf of Mexico there will be some migration of the fishing industry, hotels and the food service will grow, and the housing market will pick back up. Business will move in the area to support the influx of tourist to the area which will have an effect on the local population. Locals can stay in the area instead of having to travel out side the county, keeping the money and taxes in the county. Community support and input can help shape the future with the help of the local government to work and finish the infrastructure.
The community of Navarre Florida has been growing increasingly in over the past four years. New housing subdivisions, schools, highway improvements, commercial and professional business parks have been erected all over the area. With the community involvement to protect the look of the peaceful area and the county backing it up they have been working on the infrastructure to prepare for the future. Time lines have been set up and the area is getting on track. One proposed idea that will help the town of Navarre get a Pass to the Gulf of Mexico is to incorporate. The town of Navarre is currently governed by the county and so has to share its resources and wait on the demands of the whole county. Most changes must also be approved by the whole county many of whom have no vested interest in this small town. Resent News coverage has stated that the Army Core of Engineers has been asked to look into seeing if there is a federal interest in the opening of the Navarre Beach pass. With the help of the Army Core of Engineers the county will have to shoulder less of the financial burden of building the pass and focuses on finishing the infrastructure of the area. Johnny Grandison of the Mobile office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said “if supporters can identify a federal interest in a pass, economically or environmentally, the Corps might be able to pay for the project” (Cooper, paragragh 25-26) Also with the involvement of the Corps they will have the burden of responsibility to maintain it for the next fifty years from any “acts of God” (Navarrepass.com) Opening the Pass can also help with the flushing of the sound.
With the opening of a pass in to the Gulf of Mexico there will be some changes to the ecological environment in the center of the fifty plus mile stretch of Bearer Island and the sound it protects. The area currently is home to many forms of sea grasses and small fish. The water is also stagnate, and the storm runoff takes a long time to naturally flush out. Some worry that the opening of a pass to the Gulf would damage the sea grasses in the sound due to most the extra salt water from the Gulf, but researchers have found that the water in the sound has about the same salinity levels as in the Gulf (Destin Log, Paragraph six) In fact most researchers do not know the full impacts of cutting a new pass into the sound and more research needs to be done. But cutting a pass can be done.
Putting an access point to the Gulf of Mexico in Navarre Beach will help the local economy by bringing new business opportunities. The town is on track with building the infrastructure, and the sound could use the environmental benefits of the natural flushing that the pass can provide. The biggest step to help make this dream a reality is to contact the governor and local politicians and let them know it has support of the community and the second step is to vote for the incorporation of the town of Navarre Beach, Florida to take the control of the project out of the counties hands and in the hands of the community that the pass will benefit the most.
Works Cited
Cooper, Louis “Forging a new pass” Pensacola News Journal Published - February, 9, 2008 accessed March 19, 2008 http://gulfcoastgateway.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080209/NEWS01/802090312/1126/NEWS0503
Hayes, Franklin “County, Navarre push forward with new Town Center” Gulf Breeze News February 09, 2006 accessed March 19, 2008 http://www.gulfbreezenews.com/news/2006/0209/Front_Page/006.html
“There's talk in Navarre about a Navarre Pass” The Destin Log by Florida Freedom Newspapers June 04, 2007 (Paragraph six, The science of a pass), accessed March 19, 2008 http://www.thedestinlog.com/articles/article.print.db.php?a=1371
Navarre Pass. “2-11-08 PR News>>” Navarre Pohlmann Pass Committee February 11, 2008 Paragraph four http://www.navarrepass.com/news_2_11_08_text.html
Monday, March 3, 2008
Solution essay draft
Thesis for a solution
In a little town called Navarre Beach, Florida there has been some debate as to the opening of a pass to the Gulf of Mexico. Navarre is protected by a barrier island stretching about 52 miles, and the town of Navarre happens to be at the center of this area with which the only other access being the Destin pass to the East and the Pensacola pass to the West. Although some residents fear over development of the area, the city of Navarre beach should reopen up the access to the Gulf of Mexico because it will bring more business opportunities to the area, the city has been and is almost finished preparing the infrastructure, and to flush out the sound through natural tides.
In the summer of 1965 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dug a pass to the Gulf. A few months later a hurricane closed it back up before any reinforcement, large rocks, could be put in place. Opening the pass have a high effect on the area as far as tourism goes. As it stands now the town of Navarre has a population of (use the Hass book). It is mostly populated by the military bases near by as well as those that work in the two adjacent counties. While some people fear that the sky line will be over taken by huge hotels and condos, there is not much room for such large structures on the sound side, and there are already condos on the barrier island. Laws could also be put in place to protect from over development. With the inclusion of a pass to the Gulf of Mexico there will be some migration of the fishing industry, hotels and the food service will grow, and the housing market will pick back up.
Look up Hass research at www.uwf.edu
www.navarrepass.com
http://www.gulfbreezenews.com/news/2008/0207/Front_Page/002.html
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080209/NEWS01/802090312/1006
http://www.navarrebeachlife.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2433
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/11888
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/12180/1
http://gulfcoastgateway.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080209/NEWS01/802090312/1126/NEWS0503
1...More business opportunities to the area
2...Almost finished building infrastructure
3...Flush out the sound through natural tides
In a little town called Navarre Beach, Florida there has been some debate as to the opening of a pass to the Gulf of Mexico. Navarre is protected by a barrier island stretching about 52 miles, and the town of Navarre happens to be at the center of this area with which the only other access being the Destin pass to the East and the Pensacola pass to the West. Although some residents fear over development of the area, the city of Navarre beach should reopen up the access to the Gulf of Mexico because it will bring more business opportunities to the area, the city has been and is almost finished preparing the infrastructure, and to flush out the sound through natural tides.
In the summer of 1965 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dug a pass to the Gulf. A few months later a hurricane closed it back up before any reinforcement, large rocks, could be put in place. Opening the pass have a high effect on the area as far as tourism goes. As it stands now the town of Navarre has a population of (use the Hass book). It is mostly populated by the military bases near by as well as those that work in the two adjacent counties. While some people fear that the sky line will be over taken by huge hotels and condos, there is not much room for such large structures on the sound side, and there are already condos on the barrier island. Laws could also be put in place to protect from over development. With the inclusion of a pass to the Gulf of Mexico there will be some migration of the fishing industry, hotels and the food service will grow, and the housing market will pick back up.
Look up Hass research at www.uwf.edu
www.navarrepass.com
http://www.gulfbreezenews.com/news/2008/0207/Front_Page/002.html
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080209/NEWS01/802090312/1006
http://www.navarrebeachlife.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2433
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/11888
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/12180/1
http://gulfcoastgateway.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080209/NEWS01/802090312/1126/NEWS0503
1...More business opportunities to the area
2...Almost finished building infrastructure
3...Flush out the sound through natural tides
plagiarism
I think just using the word without citing it is "Plagiarism".
So in a World where I feel that we are at an inpass or lack of original thought, how can you not? I offten find it hard to put some thing that others say in better words and still have it have meaning. ( I am sure someone else said the same thing before). A question about common knowlegde, If it is common to the writer and reader is it common to you? How is one to know? I guess I will need lots of sorce citations as many things I find common you will not.
My head hurts now. ;(
So in a World where I feel that we are at an inpass or lack of original thought, how can you not? I offten find it hard to put some thing that others say in better words and still have it have meaning. ( I am sure someone else said the same thing before). A question about common knowlegde, If it is common to the writer and reader is it common to you? How is one to know? I guess I will need lots of sorce citations as many things I find common you will not.
My head hurts now. ;(
week six assignments
Post Secret
I would have to say most are true. I have seen this site or something like it before. I am sure there is a function to this as many sites do, depending on what your after. Most seem sexual in nature but a few shot out to me. The one with the blind folded girl that says "I'm sorry I failed you". Lets take a few moments to think about that. Mom do you still love me? Did her dad die? Failed who I asked, and I think of the big doctor bill in it all if even that was the case. Then I look above and see the on that says "I love my husband more than my daughter, I often wish she was NEVER born." That kid will have the same problems the other one had if not more. To wish the child was never born, Wrap it up I am sure someone she knew had the same breeding problem and found a solution. I wonder what it was like growing up in her house to not want to show her love to her kid. I guess I could see the little girl being a "Daddy's" girl and the wife getting nothing. Some one needs a hug.
I have to comment on one more. The first one that reads "It did more harm to find and read the child psychiatrist report at age 18... compared to what could have ever been wrong with me at age 3..." This is a fun one, with my low view of Psychiatrst as it is. Take no offence if you are one, every one has a chance to screw up. Are we not all a little mad? Who is to say where the line is when so many things are gray? I would like to know what is in a report about a three year old child that could have messed up a kid just out of high school.
Enough on that, It was fun. Thanks for the breather admist the tasks you give us!
Lord Joloc Talash™
Master Assassin, for hire.™
I would have to say most are true. I have seen this site or something like it before. I am sure there is a function to this as many sites do, depending on what your after. Most seem sexual in nature but a few shot out to me. The one with the blind folded girl that says "I'm sorry I failed you". Lets take a few moments to think about that. Mom do you still love me? Did her dad die? Failed who I asked, and I think of the big doctor bill in it all if even that was the case. Then I look above and see the on that says "I love my husband more than my daughter, I often wish she was NEVER born." That kid will have the same problems the other one had if not more. To wish the child was never born, Wrap it up I am sure someone she knew had the same breeding problem and found a solution. I wonder what it was like growing up in her house to not want to show her love to her kid. I guess I could see the little girl being a "Daddy's" girl and the wife getting nothing. Some one needs a hug.
I have to comment on one more. The first one that reads "It did more harm to find and read the child psychiatrist report at age 18... compared to what could have ever been wrong with me at age 3..." This is a fun one, with my low view of Psychiatrst as it is. Take no offence if you are one, every one has a chance to screw up. Are we not all a little mad? Who is to say where the line is when so many things are gray? I would like to know what is in a report about a three year old child that could have messed up a kid just out of high school.
Enough on that, It was fun. Thanks for the breather admist the tasks you give us!
Lord Joloc Talash™
Master Assassin, for hire.™
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Ano bib
Annotated Bibliography
Although moving to green fuel is good for mitigating the air pollution it is destroying the coastal areas that depend on the fishing industry because Nitrogen rich waters from corn fields increase the growth of harmful algae, there are better crops than corn to produce biomass for fuel, and even with natural weather patterns the problem still exsist.
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, Oct.18) Clean water jacked.. Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/17/125453/97
Article talks about agriculture gets away with polluting the Mississippi river. The EPA tasked with enforcment of the Clean Water Act has done nothing in way on enforcement of the laws. More or less have given the enforment of the law to the states and have not watched them to ensure it is enforrced. Writer gives two cases involving Iowa and its dumping of wastes and run off from farms. Goes on to find new bills to help fix the prblem.
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, Jul. 17) Gulf Dead Zone: bigger than ever.. Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/7/16/161412/560
Tom Phoilpott talks about the jump in corn fields planted the spring of 2007. Now almost the size of California. Says while this is good for large meat-processing companies that use the corn for feed, the ag run off is affecting the Gulf of Mexico by causing large alege blooms killing vast areas of vital fishing grounds on the coastal areas. Goes on to describe the process called hypoxia and how the USDA having policies in place that do not discurage the practice of growing large fields with no thought of the ag run off.
"Source: Greenpeace (http://www.greenpeace.org)" Creeping dead zones.. Greenpeace. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/pollution/creeping-dead-zones
Date and author unknown the article talks about the dead zones around the world. Brings to light that the dead zones have been an annual occurence in the Gulf of Mexico near the mouth of the Mississippi River. States that it is known to the UN that the problem is getting worse with some area affected the size of small counties.
Schmid, Randolph E. (2007, OCT. 10) Ethanol push could threaten water supplies.. The globe and Mail. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071010.wethanol1010/BNStory/Science/home
The push for finding a biofuel by using corn crops may have a big inpact on the nation's water supplies. A few reasearch panels reported that the boom in corn for fuel could be worse than thought. That in order to make corn a viable sorce better technologies need to come out. The reaserch looks into the amout of water needed to produce the corn and then the extra that goes into making the fuel.
Video uploaded from the North West Florida Daily News. Found on Brightcove TV. Retrieved March 1 2008 from http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1254115790 Just a view of the effects of the Red Tide and the problems effecting the states near the Gulf of Mexico.
Glenn, Lori. (2005, Aug. 20) A Florida Gulf Coast Dead Zone Eyewitness Report.. Rense. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.rense.com/general67/florida.htm
In a report of the author on a boating trip takes in the seen as she passes through a Dead Zone. She asks many quesstions to promote thought on what is going on and possibly to get action from the readers.
Zollo, Cathy. (2005, Aug. 20) Little left to catch in tainted Gulf.. Red Tide Alert. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.redtidealert.com/DeadZoneintheGulf.html
In a report about Florida billing itself as the "fishing capital of the world", the fishing has dried up. Many charter boats that depend on the Gulf for income have found that their best fishing spots are dead from the floor up. Most boats have been staying in hoping that the currents wash away the problems and look toward the Govenor Jeb Bush to help open the door to finacial aid. Some reasechers are saying that there is some life out in the Gulf but for those that go looking they say it is hard to find.
Lilley, Sasha. (2006, Jun. 01) Green Fuel's Dirty Secret.. Corp Watch. Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13646
An article from a Corpiration Watch Dog group finds holes in the attempt of companies to build "green" ethanol producing plants by using coal to power them. The big push from the Bush administation and environmentalist that corn is the fuel of the future are not looking at those that mack this so called "green fuel". Article further states that the EPA is having a hard time controling a company called ADM due to its big pockets in the markets of the world.
Gotfried, Steven. (2007, Sep. 26) Growth Rates of Emission-Fed Algae Show Viability of New Biomass Crop.. Green Fuels. Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://www.greenfuelonline.com/gf_files/GreenFuel%20Growth%20Rates.htm
In a press release from www.greenfuelonline.com the Arizona Public Service Company (APS) plans to replicate the success of an algae biomass facilaty built at a naturl gas power plant. This comes after the Algae biofuel produced crops 30 to over 100 percent higher than corn and soybean crops. the Arizona Public Service Company is planing to build one of these biomass feilds near one of their largest coal power plants.
Clayton, Mark. ( 2006, Mar. 23) Carbon Cloud Over a Green Fuel.. Christian Science Monitor. Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0323/p01s01-sten.html
The building of coal refinerys to turn corn to biofuel? Another article on the building of Coal burning plants to make "green fuel". The reasons sited is for economics, Coal is a cheaper fuel to use. The article states that there are nearly two hundred Ethanol refineries being or in planning to be built. Is the push for less forein oil dependency greater than reducing the carbon foot print? If not what is the point?
Amarante, Joe. ( 2007, Jun 14) Oceans expert foresees dire straits.. New Haven Register (CT) Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&hid=5&sid=fbd1891d-0bd7-46dd-93e1-afe51cad3828%40sessionmgr2
An oceanographer gives a speech on the foreseen death of the worlds oceans. Calling for reform of the way the world behaves with regard to the envorment to save the waters for our kids. Brings in the big picture with not only nutrient runoff but other equily harmful acts and global warming.
Block, Melissa (2007, Jan 01)Massive Florida Algae Bloom Leads to Accusations.. All Things Considered (NPR) Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&hid=117&sid=fbd1891d-0bd7-46dd-93e1-afe51cad3828%40sessionmgr2
More Dead zones in the Florida Keys are being pined on more pollution and cut and fill projects. When will these people learn? Some experts are having a hard time finding the true sorce of the problem and the timing of the algae blooms that cause these problems. On a bright note it reports that forcing companies to dump less junk in the water the better the water gets. Smart people...
Tomich, Jeffrey (2007, Dec. 07) Chesterfield firm leading the way on new ethanol.. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO). Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=11&hid=120&sid=fbd1891d-0bd7-46dd-93e1-afe51cad3828%40sessionmgr2
Finding cheaper diffrent ways to make biomass fuels for the future and facility in Nebraska experements with new plant material. The engineers are not there yet with the technology to mass produce the biomass fuels but are working this spring to build test refineys.
Lucas, Marlene (2007, May 20) Fueling research.. Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids, IA). Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=12&hid=120&sid=fbd1891d-0bd7-46dd-93e1-afe51cad3828%40sessionmgr2
Schools and big oil companies are investing in the search to fall inline with the Presadent mandate of use twenty percent less oil over ten years. In Iowa State University the program looks at the intire picture from seed to pump and uses many resorces than that of the science department. There was a push in the 1970's for biomass fuels but now the technology is here to help save the day.
essay 2 info
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/6426/1
Although moving to green fuel is good for mitigating the air pollution it is destroying the coastal areas that depend on the fishing industry because Nitrogen rich waters from corn fields increase the growth of harmful algae, there are better crops than corn to produce biomass for fuel, and even with natural weather patterns the problem still exsist.
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, Oct.18) Clean water jacked.. Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/17/125453/97
Article talks about agriculture gets away with polluting the Mississippi river. The EPA tasked with enforcment of the Clean Water Act has done nothing in way on enforcement of the laws. More or less have given the enforment of the law to the states and have not watched them to ensure it is enforrced. Writer gives two cases involving Iowa and its dumping of wastes and run off from farms. Goes on to find new bills to help fix the prblem.
Phoilpott, Tom. (2007, Jul. 17) Gulf Dead Zone: bigger than ever.. Gristmill. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/7/16/161412/560
Tom Phoilpott talks about the jump in corn fields planted the spring of 2007. Now almost the size of California. Says while this is good for large meat-processing companies that use the corn for feed, the ag run off is affecting the Gulf of Mexico by causing large alege blooms killing vast areas of vital fishing grounds on the coastal areas. Goes on to describe the process called hypoxia and how the USDA having policies in place that do not discurage the practice of growing large fields with no thought of the ag run off.
"Source: Greenpeace (http://www.greenpeace.org)" Creeping dead zones.. Greenpeace. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/pollution/creeping-dead-zones
Date and author unknown the article talks about the dead zones around the world. Brings to light that the dead zones have been an annual occurence in the Gulf of Mexico near the mouth of the Mississippi River. States that it is known to the UN that the problem is getting worse with some area affected the size of small counties.
Schmid, Randolph E. (2007, OCT. 10) Ethanol push could threaten water supplies.. The globe and Mail. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071010.wethanol1010/BNStory/Science/home
The push for finding a biofuel by using corn crops may have a big inpact on the nation's water supplies. A few reasearch panels reported that the boom in corn for fuel could be worse than thought. That in order to make corn a viable sorce better technologies need to come out. The reaserch looks into the amout of water needed to produce the corn and then the extra that goes into making the fuel.
Video uploaded from the North West Florida Daily News. Found on Brightcove TV. Retrieved March 1 2008 from http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1254115790 Just a view of the effects of the Red Tide and the problems effecting the states near the Gulf of Mexico.
Glenn, Lori. (2005, Aug. 20) A Florida Gulf Coast Dead Zone Eyewitness Report.. Rense. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.rense.com/general67/florida.htm
In a report of the author on a boating trip takes in the seen as she passes through a Dead Zone. She asks many quesstions to promote thought on what is going on and possibly to get action from the readers.
Zollo, Cathy. (2005, Aug. 20) Little left to catch in tainted Gulf.. Red Tide Alert. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.redtidealert.com/DeadZoneintheGulf.html
In a report about Florida billing itself as the "fishing capital of the world", the fishing has dried up. Many charter boats that depend on the Gulf for income have found that their best fishing spots are dead from the floor up. Most boats have been staying in hoping that the currents wash away the problems and look toward the Govenor Jeb Bush to help open the door to finacial aid. Some reasechers are saying that there is some life out in the Gulf but for those that go looking they say it is hard to find.
Lilley, Sasha. (2006, Jun. 01) Green Fuel's Dirty Secret.. Corp Watch. Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13646
An article from a Corpiration Watch Dog group finds holes in the attempt of companies to build "green" ethanol producing plants by using coal to power them. The big push from the Bush administation and environmentalist that corn is the fuel of the future are not looking at those that mack this so called "green fuel". Article further states that the EPA is having a hard time controling a company called ADM due to its big pockets in the markets of the world.
Gotfried, Steven. (2007, Sep. 26) Growth Rates of Emission-Fed Algae Show Viability of New Biomass Crop.. Green Fuels. Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://www.greenfuelonline.com/gf_files/GreenFuel%20Growth%20Rates.htm
In a press release from www.greenfuelonline.com the Arizona Public Service Company (APS) plans to replicate the success of an algae biomass facilaty built at a naturl gas power plant. This comes after the Algae biofuel produced crops 30 to over 100 percent higher than corn and soybean crops. the Arizona Public Service Company is planing to build one of these biomass feilds near one of their largest coal power plants.
Clayton, Mark. ( 2006, Mar. 23) Carbon Cloud Over a Green Fuel.. Christian Science Monitor. Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0323/p01s01-sten.html
The building of coal refinerys to turn corn to biofuel? Another article on the building of Coal burning plants to make "green fuel". The reasons sited is for economics, Coal is a cheaper fuel to use. The article states that there are nearly two hundred Ethanol refineries being or in planning to be built. Is the push for less forein oil dependency greater than reducing the carbon foot print? If not what is the point?
Amarante, Joe. ( 2007, Jun 14) Oceans expert foresees dire straits.. New Haven Register (CT) Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&hid=5&sid=fbd1891d-0bd7-46dd-93e1-afe51cad3828%40sessionmgr2
An oceanographer gives a speech on the foreseen death of the worlds oceans. Calling for reform of the way the world behaves with regard to the envorment to save the waters for our kids. Brings in the big picture with not only nutrient runoff but other equily harmful acts and global warming.
Block, Melissa (2007, Jan 01)Massive Florida Algae Bloom Leads to Accusations.. All Things Considered (NPR) Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&hid=117&sid=fbd1891d-0bd7-46dd-93e1-afe51cad3828%40sessionmgr2
More Dead zones in the Florida Keys are being pined on more pollution and cut and fill projects. When will these people learn? Some experts are having a hard time finding the true sorce of the problem and the timing of the algae blooms that cause these problems. On a bright note it reports that forcing companies to dump less junk in the water the better the water gets. Smart people...
Tomich, Jeffrey (2007, Dec. 07) Chesterfield firm leading the way on new ethanol.. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO). Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=11&hid=120&sid=fbd1891d-0bd7-46dd-93e1-afe51cad3828%40sessionmgr2
Finding cheaper diffrent ways to make biomass fuels for the future and facility in Nebraska experements with new plant material. The engineers are not there yet with the technology to mass produce the biomass fuels but are working this spring to build test refineys.
Lucas, Marlene (2007, May 20) Fueling research.. Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids, IA). Retrieve March 1, 2008 from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=12&hid=120&sid=fbd1891d-0bd7-46dd-93e1-afe51cad3828%40sessionmgr2
Schools and big oil companies are investing in the search to fall inline with the Presadent mandate of use twenty percent less oil over ten years. In Iowa State University the program looks at the intire picture from seed to pump and uses many resorces than that of the science department. There was a push in the 1970's for biomass fuels but now the technology is here to help save the day.
essay 2 info
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/6426/1
Monday, February 25, 2008
Week five assignments
Thesis for a slolution
Although some residents fear over development of the area, Navarre beach should be opened up to the Gulf of Mexico because it will bring more bussiness opertunities to the area, the city has been is almost finished preparing the infrastuction, and to make more money of course. (last one will be refined later once the brain fart has passed.)
Reading responses for the Big foot article.
* What is Specter's thesis? What does he argue? Where is it in the essay?
* What differentiates this essay from what a newspaper account of the honeybee situation would say?
* In magazine articles, writers don't cite sources, but the magazines do have fact checkers who check the facts for every article. Be a fact checker, and find 3 facts that Specter presents and check them for us (provide your sources).
Figuring out a thesis from this article has been very difficult for me. The first part of this article focuses on the food indrestry and the second part brings up power plants, trade markets and the planets resources to deal with the problem. I an effort to name a thesis I will guess at "How do we alter human behavior significantly enough to limit global warming? Personal choices, no matter ho virtuous, cannot do enough. It will also take laws and money" Just look at the part that starts with the big H.
I am not sure if I missed having to read an articale or essay on honey bees? What honeybee situation? Off the top of my head the differentiates would be global warming and bees. of course they could be tied and say due to global warming there will be a shortage of honey due to the bees moving or dieing.
Just the facts man! I realy need to get that class book in.
Looking into Finding were some of the facts for this articale I looked up Wikipedia.org and found... not what I was looking for. I was looking for the “I am not a scientist," speach in the Big foot article. So went the three other links and still found nothing on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Leahy
So moving on to where I found some information on where Tesco is and the clam that it is the largest retailer in England, and holding a quarter of the UK market share.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco#UK_market_share
Found the carbon foot print info for the Walkers crisps potato chips
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint#Other_activities
and also from there site as well
http://www.brittrips.co.uk/green/
And the bit about the “Green my Apple” campaign was found here,
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/we-love-our-macs26092006
Logical Fallacy exercise
Circulus in demonstrando (circular argument). Circular argumentation occurs when someone uses what they are trying to prove as part of the proof of that thing.
An Example I like to use often is " Sex is evil, evil is sin, sin is forgiven, so lets begin." I like to use this at times when people make a comment about sex being a bad thing, more or less a joke.
I am human, and to error is human, so I am sure I have made a few logical fallacys in my time. Otherwise I would not be human. That one may be a Cum hoc ergo propter hoc (with this, therefore because of this). This is the familiar fallacy of mistaking correlation for causation.
Some of the things on the site I understood but did not know the terms for.
Hit this TEXT LINK to see what I am talking about.
Although some residents fear over development of the area, Navarre beach should be opened up to the Gulf of Mexico because it will bring more bussiness opertunities to the area, the city has been is almost finished preparing the infrastuction, and to make more money of course. (last one will be refined later once the brain fart has passed.)
Reading responses for the Big foot article.
* What is Specter's thesis? What does he argue? Where is it in the essay?
* What differentiates this essay from what a newspaper account of the honeybee situation would say?
* In magazine articles, writers don't cite sources, but the magazines do have fact checkers who check the facts for every article. Be a fact checker, and find 3 facts that Specter presents and check them for us (provide your sources).
Figuring out a thesis from this article has been very difficult for me. The first part of this article focuses on the food indrestry and the second part brings up power plants, trade markets and the planets resources to deal with the problem. I an effort to name a thesis I will guess at "How do we alter human behavior significantly enough to limit global warming? Personal choices, no matter ho virtuous, cannot do enough. It will also take laws and money" Just look at the part that starts with the big H.
I am not sure if I missed having to read an articale or essay on honey bees? What honeybee situation? Off the top of my head the differentiates would be global warming and bees. of course they could be tied and say due to global warming there will be a shortage of honey due to the bees moving or dieing.
Just the facts man! I realy need to get that class book in.
Looking into Finding were some of the facts for this articale I looked up Wikipedia.org and found... not what I was looking for. I was looking for the “I am not a scientist," speach in the Big foot article. So went the three other links and still found nothing on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Leahy
So moving on to where I found some information on where Tesco is and the clam that it is the largest retailer in England, and holding a quarter of the UK market share.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco#UK_market_share
Found the carbon foot print info for the Walkers crisps potato chips
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint#Other_activities
and also from there site as well
http://www.brittrips.co.uk/green/
And the bit about the “Green my Apple” campaign was found here,
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/we-love-our-macs26092006
Logical Fallacy exercise
Circulus in demonstrando (circular argument). Circular argumentation occurs when someone uses what they are trying to prove as part of the proof of that thing.
An Example I like to use often is " Sex is evil, evil is sin, sin is forgiven, so lets begin." I like to use this at times when people make a comment about sex being a bad thing, more or less a joke.
I am human, and to error is human, so I am sure I have made a few logical fallacys in my time. Otherwise I would not be human. That one may be a Cum hoc ergo propter hoc (with this, therefore because of this). This is the familiar fallacy of mistaking correlation for causation.
Some of the things on the site I understood but did not know the terms for.
Hit this TEXT LINK to see what I am talking about.
Friday, February 15, 2008
week four English 213 Blog Assignments
Utube has useful videos on it, I swear!
One would have think this video is just a few firemen screwing around with water. Looking deeper, focusing water and using high pressure can and has had many uses in the past. Water drills and cutters for example, the technology of forcing tons of water through a small hole. Thinking about it, using technology like this is better for the environment. In this video they use fire trucks to power the stunt, but it can also be done using a big bucket (really big!) on top of a hill using gravity. Brings forth another idea of sustainable energy source that has been in use for thousands of years using water, a big wheel, and gravity. Now the need for high performance generators to draw clean power from.
videos on it
Grammar Girl.
I have found that it is very helpful to me and it was listed as the last of her four recommendations, and that is to give it time. I prefer to give myself at least a day. Consequently some assignments do not give me that time. It also helps me to read out loud. I have always found English classes hard and struggled to get through, But I have been able to read and my mind would add words to what I am reading to fill it out or make it sound right. I does not matter what I read my mind just puts in what it wants and sounds right. Made reading aloud in class slow and hard because I added words and lose half the class.
How Far Does My Food Travel?
Today I had Capt'n Crunch, milk, Peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and an Arizona watermelon fruit juice. It is past dinner and now I am hungry. The first things came from a grocery store and and the Juice came from a fridge in the local comic shop. Beyond that I am happy in the ignorance of my American consumer buy it now, pay later, screw the environment thinking. Now food and sleep.
Scout around Grist. org
I'm sure there's a Baywatch joke in here somewhere
Man it is sleepy time
One would have think this video is just a few firemen screwing around with water. Looking deeper, focusing water and using high pressure can and has had many uses in the past. Water drills and cutters for example, the technology of forcing tons of water through a small hole. Thinking about it, using technology like this is better for the environment. In this video they use fire trucks to power the stunt, but it can also be done using a big bucket (really big!) on top of a hill using gravity. Brings forth another idea of sustainable energy source that has been in use for thousands of years using water, a big wheel, and gravity. Now the need for high performance generators to draw clean power from.
videos on it
Grammar Girl.
I have found that it is very helpful to me and it was listed as the last of her four recommendations, and that is to give it time. I prefer to give myself at least a day. Consequently some assignments do not give me that time. It also helps me to read out loud. I have always found English classes hard and struggled to get through, But I have been able to read and my mind would add words to what I am reading to fill it out or make it sound right. I does not matter what I read my mind just puts in what it wants and sounds right. Made reading aloud in class slow and hard because I added words and lose half the class.
How Far Does My Food Travel?
Today I had Capt'n Crunch, milk, Peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and an Arizona watermelon fruit juice. It is past dinner and now I am hungry. The first things came from a grocery store and and the Juice came from a fridge in the local comic shop. Beyond that I am happy in the ignorance of my American consumer buy it now, pay later, screw the environment thinking. Now food and sleep.
Scout around Grist. org
I'm sure there's a Baywatch joke in here somewhere
Depressing ocean news buoyed by Pam Anderson's striptease
I would have to say this it got my attention just because it was funny. I guess this would have to be a delayed lead sentence.Man it is sleepy time
POSITION ESSAY WORKSHOP QUESTIONS
1. Thesis:
A. Restate the thesis in your own words. If the thesis is a question and not an assertion, make it an assertion. Make sure the words “although” and "because" are in it.
Although lab made medicines are advantageous, homiopahtic remedies are more beneficial because they are cost effective, homiopahtic remedies have less side effects, andhomiopahtic remedies have better long term benefits.
B. Does the thesis state the author's position on a controversial topic? Is it at the end of the first paragraph?
yes
2. Reasons: List below the author's reasons for holding his or her position. Are they listed in the thesis, or in the body of the essay? They should be listed in the thesis, and expanded upon in the body of the essay.
A. herbal and natural remedies are more beneficial because they have potential to be more cost effective
B. herbal and natural remedies are more beneficial because have fewer side effects
C. herbal and natural remedies are more beneficial because they have better long term benefits
3. Audience: Who is the author's audience? Do they already agree with the author, or is the author writing to the opposition? How can you tell? Give specific examples.
Audience would be all users of presription drugs or anyone interested in getting a healther drug with low side effects. Gives examples of use in China and Japan with growing popularity in the west. Should look into South America and Native Indian tribes for more examples.
4. Counterargument: List the counterarguments (arguments of the author’s oppositions) used in the essay (there should be at least three). Does the author adequately address these arguments? Do you think there are other arguments that could be addressed? Do you see any logical fallacies?
A.It was hard to find any counter arguments.
5. Title:Does the essay have an interesting title? If not, help author come up with one.
Seems rather plain. Try Herbal medicine making a come back. I do not know.
6. Introduction: Is there a catchy lead sentence? What is it? If there isn't one, what would you suggest?
Try this, Whould you rather take a sinthitic drug that has side effects like death or would you rather something natural that can have more benifits?
7. Conclusion: How does the author conclude the essay? What do you think of it?
I like the wrap up but it still needs to include a reworded thesis. ( I think that is how it is done, need to reread the essay notes)
8. Flow/Transitions: Does each paragraph expand upon the thesis? Do the paragraphs flow? Which paragraphs have bumpy transitions?
The flow is good but it still lacks the order set forth in the thesis. I am getting kicked off the pc now sorry i can not do more, or spell check.
http://kellylowry.blogspot.com/
workshop Kelly's position essay
1. Thesis:
A. Restate the thesis in your own words. If the thesis is a question and not an assertion, make it an assertion. Make sure the words “although” and "because" are in it.
Although lab made medicines are advantageous, homiopahtic remedies are more beneficial because they are cost effective, homiopahtic remedies have less side effects, andhomiopahtic remedies have better long term benefits.
B. Does the thesis state the author's position on a controversial topic? Is it at the end of the first paragraph?
yes
2. Reasons: List below the author's reasons for holding his or her position. Are they listed in the thesis, or in the body of the essay? They should be listed in the thesis, and expanded upon in the body of the essay.
A. herbal and natural remedies are more beneficial because they have potential to be more cost effective
B. herbal and natural remedies are more beneficial because have fewer side effects
C. herbal and natural remedies are more beneficial because they have better long term benefits
3. Audience: Who is the author's audience? Do they already agree with the author, or is the author writing to the opposition? How can you tell? Give specific examples.
Audience would be all users of presription drugs or anyone interested in getting a healther drug with low side effects. Gives examples of use in China and Japan with growing popularity in the west. Should look into South America and Native Indian tribes for more examples.
4. Counterargument: List the counterarguments (arguments of the author’s oppositions) used in the essay (there should be at least three). Does the author adequately address these arguments? Do you think there are other arguments that could be addressed? Do you see any logical fallacies?
A.It was hard to find any counter arguments.
5. Title:Does the essay have an interesting title? If not, help author come up with one.
Seems rather plain. Try Herbal medicine making a come back. I do not know.
6. Introduction: Is there a catchy lead sentence? What is it? If there isn't one, what would you suggest?
Try this, Whould you rather take a sinthitic drug that has side effects like death or would you rather something natural that can have more benifits?
7. Conclusion: How does the author conclude the essay? What do you think of it?
I like the wrap up but it still needs to include a reworded thesis. ( I think that is how it is done, need to reread the essay notes)
8. Flow/Transitions: Does each paragraph expand upon the thesis? Do the paragraphs flow? Which paragraphs have bumpy transitions?
The flow is good but it still lacks the order set forth in the thesis. I am getting kicked off the pc now sorry i can not do more, or spell check.
http://kellylowry.blogspot.com/
workshop Kelly's position essay
Part I: Exploratory Essay
Trying to find focuses on this subject has proved difficult. The scope of this essay can barely cover a small percentage of what is really going on. I need to to a ton of more research. Till then this is what I have.
Well I am living in Florida and the biggest thing affecting this state is the fishing business. The big push for corn to be made into new fuels is casing a negative effect as the fertilizes used is leaching into the the Mississippi river and flowing into the Gulf of Mexico and causing a dead area covering many square miles of fishing area. A large Red tide Killed thousands and thousands of fish at the end of this summer and now the sea bottom is dieing out due to a lack of oxygen killing off the food source of the fish in a 2000 square mile area. Miles of coast line have skeletons still lying on the beach. I just took a picture of an area that had washed up and it was a foot wide and almost as tall and as long as the eye can see pile of bones. This is a smaller portion of a big problem. There are reports of dead zones of black junk that could be the blame of global warming, and some scientist just do not know where this is all coming from due to many different things happening all at once.
Although moving to green fuel is good for mitigating the air pollution it is destroying the coastal areas that depend on the fishing industry because Nitrogen rich waters increase the growth of harmful algae, ??
In a process known as hypoxia, all of that free nitrogen feeds a giant algae bloom, which ties up oxygen and destroys most life underneath: hence the "Dead Zone." http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/7/16/161412/560
Dead zone in the Gulf
By CATHY ZOLLO
http://www.redtidealert.com/DeadZoneintheGulf.html
Well I am living in Florida and the biggest thing affecting this state is the fishing business. The big push for corn to be made into new fuels is casing a negative effect as the fertilizes used is leaching into the the Mississippi river and flowing into the Gulf of Mexico and causing a dead area covering many square miles of fishing area. A large Red tide Killed thousands and thousands of fish at the end of this summer and now the sea bottom is dieing out due to a lack of oxygen killing off the food source of the fish in a 2000 square mile area. Miles of coast line have skeletons still lying on the beach. I just took a picture of an area that had washed up and it was a foot wide and almost as tall and as long as the eye can see pile of bones. This is a smaller portion of a big problem. There are reports of dead zones of black junk that could be the blame of global warming, and some scientist just do not know where this is all coming from due to many different things happening all at once.
Although moving to green fuel is good for mitigating the air pollution it is destroying the coastal areas that depend on the fishing industry because Nitrogen rich waters increase the growth of harmful algae, ??
In a process known as hypoxia, all of that free nitrogen feeds a giant algae bloom, which ties up oxygen and destroys most life underneath: hence the "Dead Zone." http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/7/16/161412/560
Dead zone in the Gulf
By CATHY ZOLLO
http://www.redtidealert.com/DeadZoneintheGulf.html
week three last assignment chip cartoon
3) Look at this cartoon and discuss what the joke is. What argument does the cartoonist make?
I would say that the cartoonist is mocking the media and the weird things they do. I honestly have to say I have not be following any of this so it is hard for me to have an opinion on it.
I would say that the cartoonist is mocking the media and the weird things they do. I honestly have to say I have not be following any of this so it is hard for me to have an opinion on it.
Mark Fiore cartoon.
Assignment #2 my responses in black.
Watch this cartoon by satirist Mark Fiore and post on your blog what argument you think he is making and whether or not he is successful.
Are you trying to say there is an argument in this cartoon? I am not seeing it. I agree the market and the US is going down the craper and we are in trouble. But alas I have bigger fist to fry, you could say I am being self centered but divorce is ugly and tends to make me not care about the state of things around me.
Who is his audience?
I guess you are, I am not feeling it at the moment.
How would someone who disagrees with his opinion respond?
Well if you feel that the US is wonderful and not circling the drain then you could make all kinds of ignorant arguments. I am not feeling that creative to put words in your mouth so feel free to voice them.
Does his argument aim to offend? What specific techniques does he use to mock his targets?
First I guess it would to those disillusioned in their beliefs. The only technique I see is the cartoon itself.
Watch this cartoon by satirist Mark Fiore and post on your blog what argument you think he is making and whether or not he is successful.
Are you trying to say there is an argument in this cartoon? I am not seeing it. I agree the market and the US is going down the craper and we are in trouble. But alas I have bigger fist to fry, you could say I am being self centered but divorce is ugly and tends to make me not care about the state of things around me.
Who is his audience?
I guess you are, I am not feeling it at the moment.
How would someone who disagrees with his opinion respond?
Well if you feel that the US is wonderful and not circling the drain then you could make all kinds of ignorant arguments. I am not feeling that creative to put words in your mouth so feel free to voice them.
Does his argument aim to offend? What specific techniques does he use to mock his targets?
First I guess it would to those disillusioned in their beliefs. The only technique I see is the cartoon itself.
shit week 3
I do agree that all things at first are shit. I do not like forced writing. I would rather bitch and wine about it and not do it. Eyes gloss over every time i look at black board and I get lost at trying to figure out what it is I have to do. Knowing what to do helps things move smoothly. If you can not tell I have no problem writing shitty first drafts it is just the blank stare at the page before me trying to will my self to find the start point and get it down.
to begin one needs a starting point.
to begin one needs a starting point.
Monday, February 11, 2008
essy one final draft
Why rent when you can buy and be your own landlord?
Home equity is built in a few ways. The amount from the down payment, the monthly mortgage payments and through appreciation. Normally the down payment is on ten to twenty percent of the value but the appreciation is on the full value of the home. The argument can be made that one could put what they would save from the difference on renting as to owning a home and invest it. That would require very disciple financial work and being in a cheap rental unit. If renting a place was over $900 per month start looking for a house. Just remember to start small and do not get in over your head. Bankers and financial planers are the first people to talk to be for looking for that dream house or starter house. Now lets look into the next question, Is owning truly cheaper than renting?
When renting it is in some circumstances cheaper than home ownership, when there is a plan to move out of the area in a few years, or the rent is very low. The real value of home ownership does not come to head till after a few years when the equity and market value has risen on the home in question. Some may still say that renting is the cheaper way because of the other expenses that is paid by the owner of the rental property like taxes, insurance, and maintenance. Truth is most property managers and property owners will pass all of these expenses on to the renter while they build equity in the property. Over the course of the mortgage the payments remain the same. On small homes the cost of owning can be the same as if one was to pay rent. After the mortgage is paid then the only money going out is taxes, insurance, and maintenance. There is also the tax break for home owners. This break is on the interest paid on the mortgage. Lastly how can it be sold for profit?
As stated in the beginning, it is in the long term that being a home owner does the financial benefits take place. "Three out of four people have more equity built up in there home than in other assets in retirement plans, stocks, mutual funds, and savings." In the last few decades property values have increased on par or just above inflation." In the last five years, the median price of homes all across America has increased in value approximately 10% per year."(1) Remember that the equity built is on the whole of the value of the home. So that extra ten percent is put on top of that value. "On average, people who live in the United States move to new homes about every seven years" (2) So what this means is if only ten percent was put down on the house and after seven years there was an increase of ten percent on the home value every year then selling the home would net huge profit. That profit could be used for the down payment on the next home, or getting a bigger house. Now putting it all together.
Even with the volatile hosing market owning a home is the best investment because owning builds equity, after a few years the cost of owning gets cheaper than the cost of renting, and with the increasing property values homes can be sold after some time for a profit or the down payment on a bigger home. Bring all these factors in and It is cheaper to own a home than it is renting on!
(1) (http://www.realestateabc.com/insights/should-I-buy.htm)
(2) Howstuffworks "How buying a house works" by Lee Obringer (http://www.money.howstuffworks.com/house-buying.html)
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Daniel vs. Diagnostic Essay. Round one. Fight!!
TOPIC
An online course is quite different from a face-to-face course. Explain what skills and characteristics a student needs in order to excel in an online course.
An online course has its advantages over going to a class room. It has the flexibility on going to class at anytime, at home, work, lunch, middle of the night. Some of the draw backs would be if a need to do a real time conference or like any thing else procrastination. I personally like going to a class room and having the connection with the other students. I also like that going to a physical class room helps my stay on task. I am going to this class in the virtual world because I have move a small distance from the college. Well more like the farthest point while staying in the same country.
Skills I know I would need to excel at any writing class I take online would be; task management, steady internet connection, and the ability to B.S. my way, of which I lack. A good characteristic I could develop would be to push forward knowing my dislike for such things like essays.
Hard work and unwavering need to graduate will be my ally. The skills I take away from this class in the online realm may serve me to better my other classes this semester.
Daniel
this is the start
not much to say. i am a man of few words. this will be a struggle. I even lack the basic ability to bull shit my way through.
later
daniel
later
daniel
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