So one of this week’s focuses was on Oil! I watched the TED video by Rob Hopkins who spoke about what our world be like if we didn’t have oil as he was aiming to make people aware of just how quickly our oil levels and supply is dropping. I actually had no idea that oil could produce so many different items, such large amounts of energy and how imperative it is to our way of living. A quote that Hopkins used in his talk was that ‘energy and technology are not the same thing’. He was meaning that people believe we can invent out way out of these serious situations, but we have to realise once its gone we cannot create new land and technology. Once the oil is gone, it’s gone. Jenny also mentioned this in her lecture this week and added this picture for us to have a look at. I've also included Rob Hopkins's TED talk below if you'd like to take a look at it :)
It shows just how quickly we are running out of oil. The discovery levels are so low it’s worrying!
Also if you didn’t know, Jenny included a list of what oil is used for and it’s a really diverse and interesting list. I’ll just list some of the things that I thought were pretty cool.
- Cheap travel and flights
- Paints and dyes
- Cosmetics
- Building huge buildings
- Producing a lot of cars
- Fertilisers
I hope you found looking at oil and energy as interesting and eye opening as I did :)
This weeks tutorial presentation was on the topic of 'Scaling the Solar System.' I learnt that Earth is 149.6 million kilometres away from the Sun. The closest planet to the Sun is Mercury, as seen below on the photo journal from NASA. Mercury is 57.91 million kilometres from the Sun and the furthest planet from the Sun being Pluto, is a staggering 5,906,292,480 kilometres (3.67 billion miles) away from the Sun!
This is just an average distance however, because the orbit of Pluto around the Sun is elliptical, so the distance will change.
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