Egg Drop
So during the egg drop i was not here for most of it because i was getting heart surgery and then i was away at competition so i was only here for the final day where the eggs were dropped. i dont know anything about my teams design process
but i was able to see everyones design so i got a pretty good idea about what design worked and what didn't i think our idea would have worked better however it was too small so it cracked under the fall and it left the egg exposed.
PAPER AIRPLANE
Well our plane had an average of 32.5 feet unfortunately. Our plane had much better scores during testing around 50 feet. This was very sad especially because we couldn't use our special
rock even though it fit within all the rules. That design got a score of about 90 per throw.l we also had the wind against us because our plane was flying in an unusual pattern. Also the second best
team did not get penalized for having a negative distance so that also skewed the scores a little. For our design we used a plane from youtube but we made the wings larger because we found it gave us more
glide. We did this because we weren't throwing like the guy in the video because he had a lot of practice doing the perfect throw and we did not. We also tilted the wings up slightly so that the plane wouldn't
dive bomb like it was before.
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Egg Drop
So during the egg drop i was not here for most of it because i was getting heart surgery and then i was away at competition so i was only here for the final day where the eggs were dropped. i dont know anything about my teams design process
but i was able to see everyones design so i got a pretty good idea about what design worked and what didn't i think our idea would have worked better however it was too small so it cracked under the fall and it left the egg exposed.
House stuff
so for this challenge we had to build a house that could survive heavy winds. our design was sphere that would be half burried under the ground so the wind would blow right off. however, this dome was too hard to make with just
news paper and tape so we decided to make a box house instead and it worked but after two sides of the wind all our supporting dirt blew away our supports and our house did blow away. HOWEVER OUR HOUSE WAS THE BEST SCORING HOUSE. all of the other
winning houses didnt have floors and that was against the rules but they still won for some reason but thats fine because i beat nathan and michael so im happy.
draw down challenges:
Refrigeration management is a way of phasing out more harmful types of refrigeration such as hfcs that produce harmful co2.
this change will take place in 2019 and will start in wealthier countries. this solution has no starting cost because
it would be individual. individual families would have to pay for their new system so the government wont have to pay.
this specific method claims it wouldrage temperatures by 1 degree on average.
lower global aveages
a solar farm is a large area used to produce solar energy by putting thousands of solar panels together. this is cheap at a price
of 65 cents per watt this is cheap and efficient. because the sun never runs out of light it is almost unlimited energy.
these farms can be put on military bases or on floating platforms in the ocean.
36.9 gigatons
reduced CO2
$-80.6 Billion
net implementation cost
$5.02 Trillion
net operational savings
a walkable city is what it sounds like. it is a city that allows for better transportaion on foot reducing the need for a car or
public transport. it would would however be very hard to intigrate world wide and would be a slow change.
2.92 gigatons
reduced CO2
Cost too variable to be modeled
$3.28 Trillion
net operational savings
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