HI HI WELCOME TO MY third year first semester
year 3 semester 1 journal
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i started a google site for the first time its a gallery of my metal working so far. -amazing gallery-
1) What is an Arduino?
Arduino is an open-source platform used for building electronics projects. Arduino consists of both a physical programmable circuit board (often referred to as a microcontroller) and a piece of software, or IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that runs on your computer, used to write and upload computer code to the physical board.
2) What are some of the most important parts of an Arduino board? (The parts you've been using in your assignments)
Power USB,Power (Barrel Jack),Voltage Regulator,Arduino Reset,Pins (3.3, 5, GND, Vin),Analog pins,Main microcontroller,ICSP pin,Power LED indicator,TX and RX LEDs,Digital I/O,AREF
3) What activity was the most challenging for you to complete, and why?
the double button was the most troubling becasue we coundnt figure out the code to get both buttons to work
4) What are you looking forward to doing more of with your Arduino boards?
messing around and freetime to do waht ever. basucally free range coding and making the leds do cool things
1. a. What are some examples of artificial intelligence mentioned in the article?
some examples in the article are speech recognition, gmae strategy, mircrosoft's paperclip wizard. 1b. When and where did people start researching artificial intelligence?
Dr. Harris and WInston started AI in 1983 at Thinking Machines Corperation 1c. What devices fall into the spectrum of artificial intelligence? How do these devices differ in their level of sophistication?
paper clip wizzard gathers information and learns the common differences of searches to find tips that pertain to you. 1d. According to Dr. Winston, what is the appeal of artificial intelligence?
make common life simpler and solve common problems so that the general problems of life are nonexsistent. 1e. According to Dr. Hillis, what is intelligence?
Intellegence is the ability to learn and adapt to inputs. 2. Do you think that artificial intelligence will ever reach the same level of thought as a human being? If so, how would this affect the way that people interact with machines?
i think eventually AI will reach human level of complexibility and it will change how humans must interact with machines because AI will contain emotions and morals and then the question becomes where do you set the line for moral ethics and standards 3. Do you think that a machine could ever experience emotions the way a human does? Why or why not?
i think a machine could eventually experience emotions because a true AI would have the capabilities of self thought and opinions on a human level. 4. Do you agree with Mr. Hillis’ definition of intelligence? Why or why not?
I do not because while the machines may have and adaptive capability it is not a free learning program or computer 5. Do you think people depend too much on machines to think for them? What are some examples of this?
I think for some things we rely on machines too much such as mining and food processing and harvesting. 6. Are there some tasks that you would not trust a machine to perform for you? Why?
i would not trust a machine to be my therapist because empathy is still lacking in today's AI 7. What new applications do you think we might use intelligent machines for in the future?
Intellegent machines would be used for surguries and complex tasks that a human could not multitask as easily as a machine could. 8. What is your stance on AI? Provide an argument for or against AI, with at least three supporting pieces of evidence to back up your point.
My stance is that AI should be advanced if with caution and protocols such as Assimov's three rules of AI: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. Concepts that have been played through like iRobot movie have gone through a possible senario if AI is not handled right and if one cannot reign in the AI after it goes wild. Link to article: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20001228thursday.html
some examples in the article are speech recognition, gmae strategy, mircrosoft's paperclip wizard. 1b. When and where did people start researching artificial intelligence?
Dr. Harris and WInston started AI in 1983 at Thinking Machines Corperation 1c. What devices fall into the spectrum of artificial intelligence? How do these devices differ in their level of sophistication?
paper clip wizzard gathers information and learns the common differences of searches to find tips that pertain to you. 1d. According to Dr. Winston, what is the appeal of artificial intelligence?
make common life simpler and solve common problems so that the general problems of life are nonexsistent. 1e. According to Dr. Hillis, what is intelligence?
Intellegence is the ability to learn and adapt to inputs. 2. Do you think that artificial intelligence will ever reach the same level of thought as a human being? If so, how would this affect the way that people interact with machines?
i think eventually AI will reach human level of complexibility and it will change how humans must interact with machines because AI will contain emotions and morals and then the question becomes where do you set the line for moral ethics and standards 3. Do you think that a machine could ever experience emotions the way a human does? Why or why not?
i think a machine could eventually experience emotions because a true AI would have the capabilities of self thought and opinions on a human level. 4. Do you agree with Mr. Hillis’ definition of intelligence? Why or why not?
I do not because while the machines may have and adaptive capability it is not a free learning program or computer 5. Do you think people depend too much on machines to think for them? What are some examples of this?
I think for some things we rely on machines too much such as mining and food processing and harvesting. 6. Are there some tasks that you would not trust a machine to perform for you? Why?
i would not trust a machine to be my therapist because empathy is still lacking in today's AI 7. What new applications do you think we might use intelligent machines for in the future?
Intellegent machines would be used for surguries and complex tasks that a human could not multitask as easily as a machine could. 8. What is your stance on AI? Provide an argument for or against AI, with at least three supporting pieces of evidence to back up your point.
My stance is that AI should be advanced if with caution and protocols such as Assimov's three rules of AI: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. Concepts that have been played through like iRobot movie have gone through a possible senario if AI is not handled right and if one cannot reign in the AI after it goes wild. Link to article: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20001228thursday.html
the thought of material for designing safety gloves.
Engineers designed gloves that protected the wearer from hazardous chemicals by using certain materials such as rubber ans certains polymers that cannot be dissolved or frozen easily. such examples include gloves used in handling liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen which can freeze any normal item relatively quick. other materials such as butly rubber, latex, neoprene, and nitril rubber can be used to candle hazardous chemicals that would harm the user severely. by creating certain synthetic materials the uses of certain materials grow as the safety precautions advance and become stronger. Scientist and researchers are innovating new and greater polymers and materials to widthstand the dangers of chemicals on this planet.
1) What is safety engineering? Why is it important? Safety engineering is an engineering discipline which assures that engineered systems provide acceptable levels of safety. It is strongly related to industrial engineering/systems engineering, and the subset system safety engineering. Safety engineering assures that a life-critical system behaves as needed, even when components fail. 2) What device or system did you research and why? I chose protective gloves because while the concept is simple enough, years of researching and testing went into effect in finding, testing, and publishing findings of inhibitors and nontoxic unreactive materials that can widthstand unpossible conditions. 3) What are the built-in safety features/mechanisms that are engineered into the design of this device or system? Many gloves have a hidden weave inside the polymer or rubber that is simple enough but with the weave the gloves the chances of cut or burn ripping up the glove are greatly reduced. Precautions set up by engineers such as inner linings of the gloves with stronger resistance to corrosion are put in place so that if the outside layer should fail there will be a fallback to keep the wearer safe with enough time to get the glove off before the wearer is harmed. In addition waxes, chemical treatments, and additional plastics are applied by added specifically engineered and tested by safety engineers in order to keep people safe from potentially harmful senarios.
Project Drawdown Assignment
Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project solar power is reflected and amplified by mirrors to heat molten salt tanks to heat a fluid into steam and then turn turbines. With the location in nevada there is always blue skies and plenty of sun to keep the tanks warm. Because the plant relies on heat rather than light, it can continue to make energy well into the night.10.9 gigatons of carbon dioxide-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions from 2020-2050.greenhouse gas emission reductions over 2020-2050 of 26 gigatons and 22.4 gigatons carbon dioxide-equivalent, respectively, for both scenarios.
net cost startup: $1.32 trillion from 2020-2050
first costs: $2.2 trillion in cumulative first costs
vocab:
concentrated solar: an electricity generation technology that uses heat provided by direct normal solar irradiance concentrated on a small area, with and without storage.
CSP - concentrated solar power
interesting facts
Concentrated solar is particularly promising in regions with more than 2500 kilowatt-hours per meter squared per year of sunlight radiation, such as in the southwestern United States, Central and South America, Northern and Southern Africa, the Mediterranean countries of Europe, the Near and Middle East, Iran, and the desert plains of India, Pakistan, the former Soviet Union, China, and Australia (ESTELA, 2016).
Both the Drawdown and Optimum Scenarios are more ambitious in the growth of CSP technologies, with impacts on greenhouse gas emission reductions over 2020-2050 of 26 gigatons and 22.4 gigatons carbon dioxide-equivalent, respectively, for both scenarios.
The total addressable market for concentrated solar is based on projected global electricity generation in terawatt-hours from 2020-2050, with current adoption [2] estimated at only 0.04 percent of generation (IRENA, 2016).
bamboo
What is the Drawdown Solution presented? Provide a summary of this solution in 2-3 sentences.
bamboo sequentscarbon better than most plants. with bamboo being an invasive species it grows quickly and spreads to rediuce carbon.
How many tonnes (or gigatonnes) of carbon dioxide are proposed to be reduced with this solution?7.22 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2
What is the net implementation cost? What are the net operational savings? $23.79 BILLION NET IMPLEMENTATION COST.........$264.8 BILLION NET OPERATIONAL SAVINGS
List and define at least two new terms/vocabulary words from the reading hat you weren't familiar with before. Bamboo is a unique subtype of afforestation worthy of consideration on its own substantial merits. Bamboo is a woody member of the grass family that grows rapidly. Bamboo grows in a wide range of environmental conditions, and sequesters carbon at a rate greater than or equal to that of many tree species.
Share three of the most interesting statistics you learned from reading about this solution. Total adoption in the Plausible Scenario is 48.4 million hectares in 2050, representing 39.6 percent of the total available land. Of this, 9.4 million hectares are adopted from 2020-2050. The impact of this scenario is 7.2 gigatons of carbon dioxide-equivalent by 2050. Net cost is US$23.8 billion. Net savings is US$264.8 billion. st a grass, bamboo has the compressive strength of concrete and the tensile strength of steel. It reaches its full height in one growing season, at which time it can be harvested for pulp or allowed to grow to maturity over four to eight years. After being cut, bamboo re-sprouts and grows again.
What is the Drawdown Solution presented? Provide a summary of this solution in 2-3 sentences. decarbonized concrete used as building material instead of normal way. Conventional clinker can be partially substituted for alternative materials that include volcanic ash, certain clays, finely ground limestone, ground bottle glass, and industrial waste products—namely blast furnace slag (from manufacturing iron) and fly ash (from burning coal).
How many tonnes (or gigatonnes) of carbon dioxide are proposed to be reduced with this solution?6.69 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2
What is the net implementation cost? What are the net operational savings?$-273.9 BILLION NET IMPLEMENTATION COST........N/A
List and define at least two new terms/vocabulary words from the reading hat you weren't familiar with before. At high heat, limestone’s calcium carbonate splits into calcium oxide (the desired lime content) and carbon dioxide (the waste). Decarbonizing limestone causes roughly 60 percent of cement’s emissions. The rest result from energy use. To produce Portland cement, the most common form, a mixture of crushed limestone and aluminosilicate clay is roasted in a kiln.
Share three of the most interesting statistics you learned from reading about this solution. During 2010, 1.6 gigatons of carbon dioxide was released as a result of cement production (Boden, Andres & Marland, 2013). High Volume Fly Ash cement, and is based on a policy of increasing the mix to an upper limit of 45% fly ash by weight. High Volume Fly Ash cement is currently considered “novel” with a relatively small share of the market. Alternative cement solution can only abate around 5% of coal’s original carbon dioxide footprint, so it is much more beneficial to avoid burning coal in the first place - assuming that affordable Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is unavailable.
1. Why do scientists often use anomalies instead of actual temperature readings?
anomolies tell pattern of sudden changes and what happens during disasters rather than the regular day.
2. How can we separate fact from fiction in science?
Scientist verify facts with collected data and making an hypothesiss, rather than self proclaimed scientist with little to no research to back up claims.
3. Compare your graph with a historical timeline of events in the United States and the world. What associations do you see?
In the 1900s during the second world war, many ccountries used fossil fuels as a main source of power contributing to the sudden increase of the oddities.
4. What steps can you take to reduce your impact on global temperature rise?
reducing car emissions as well as using alternate sources of energy for daily use can greatly impact my carbon footprint.
5. How can we learn about global temperatures prior to 1880?
ice cores and following trends can help predict what the carbon concentration was before humans started to fully track carbon footprint.
the cad above is an open box that will hold things such as car keys. The design is a simple box that can be placed on the counter and will hold a certain thing in order to keep my desk tidy.the concept was originally going to have a hinge but the idea was scrapped when i saw the size and and quality of the machines. the design was set to be just a regular box but it looked slightly boring as just a 5 sided box so i added camfers and side panels to give it something unique.I started the sketch with a 2d design of a basic box. I then extruded the top and turned created a base so that there is a lip for the actual box. with the bottom lip it creates a sorta look of the kings tomb from lord of the rings. In LotR its is the dwarf king's tomb that is a stone casket with a lip on the bottom and a raised indentation.