Blogger Tools

Mrs. Forinash posts our blogging assignments on her blog.

I am learning how to upload an image/picture.

I can also change the color of my text.

My Solar Energy House

If I were building my house, the energy source that I would want to use to build it would be solar energy. First of all, solar energy is renewable. The sun will keep on shining away, so it makes sense to use it. Just the tiny fraction of the Sun's energy that hits the Earth (around a hundredth of a millionth of a percent) is enough to meet all our power needs many times over.In fact, every minute, enough energy arrives at the Earth to meet our demands for a whole year! Another great thing about solar energy is that it's free, and needs no fuel and causes no waste or pollution.
Passive solar energy for homes makes the best use of the sun, the wind, the construction material and the site to ensure a house is as comfortable as possible inside all year round. A disadvantage of using solar energy though would be that it will not work at night. However, it will never run out during the day as long as the sun keeps rising, and that is why I would use solar energy when building my home.

Should West Virginia allow mountain top removal for coal mining?

I think that West Virginia should allow mountain top removal for coal mining. First of all, it's much safer than having coal miners actually going down into the earth. After the Sego mine disaster that occured a few years back, and the recent mine disaster we just had, I think it would be a good idea for change. Also, there are a few disadvantages of mountain top removal such as the fact that mountain top removal generates huge amounts of waste. While the solid waste becomes valley fills, liquid waste is stored in massive, dangerous coal slurry impoundments, often built in the headwaters of a watershed. Although it may seem that surface mining is more of a negative idea, I believe that after all the mine disasters we've had in West Virginia it should at least be considered.