[A radiated affair (Eine strahlende Angelegenheit)]
[Have you ever heard of nuclear energy, radiation, or radioactivity? Of course, you have and if not, then this project will enlighten your mind. I will tell you who Marie Curie was and what she achieved in her life. Moreover, I will show you how nuclear energy is used today, and we are going to have a look of the nuclear accident in Chernobyl. I will also very briefly look at the atomic bombs. I will calculate some nuclear decay with the half-life-method, and I explain what the C14-method is. Finally, let yourself be surprised, what I have come up with for future nuclear energy.]
[I chose this project because nuclear energy interests me and I had a lot of different thoughts when I think about it. The path from the discovery of radioactivity to the present day has been a long one and has involved several catastrophes that have claimed many lives. I find it extremely interesting how people are trying to use nuclear energy for something good, even though the danger of nuclear war is always very present.]
[Documentary about nuclear energy_1.pdf (125,36 kb)]
[Author: Rémy Grass]
A radiated affair (Eine strahlende Angelegenheit)
[Have you ever heard of nuclear energy, radiation, or radioactivity? Of course, you have and if not, then this project will enlighten your mind. I will tell you who Marie Curie was and what she achieved in her life. Moreover, I will show you how nuclear energy is used today, and we are going to have a look of the nuclear accident in Chernobyl. I will also briefly look at the atomic bombs. I will show you how you can calculate nuclear decay with the half-life-method, and I explain what the C14-method is. Finally, let yourself be surprised, what I have come up with for future nuclear energy.]
Short summary
[I chose this project because nuclear energy interests me and I had a lot of different thoughts when I think about it.
The path from the discovery of radioactivity to the present day has been a long one and has involved several catastrophes that have claimed many lives. I find it extremely interesting how people are trying to use nuclear energy for something good, even though the danger of nuclear war is very present at all times.] More...
Main part of the IDAF project
"Energy 100 years ago, today, in 100 years"
My project will be about nuclear energy. I find it a really interesting topic and I know different things to write and research about it.
Below is my concept draft for the project - own thoughts of how I could start and what I could write about it.
100 years ago:
writing and researching about Marie Curie, polonian physician who discovered radioactivity and radiochemistry
Today:
- how is nuclear energy used today?
- is it more dangerous or safer than 100 years ago?
- Accident of Tchernobyl and atombombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- "Halbwertszeit" and the C14-method (S. 144 mathbook)
- Nuclear energy in our everyday life especially in movies/hollywood productions
In 100 years:
evtl. a new form of calculating the radioactivity - too little timespan for such a long timedurance - thoughts are working
Required calculation:
I will do a calculation about the radioactive decay with the C14-method and a simple example ( e.g. radioactivity in the area of Tchernobyl or something else with high radioactivity)
Required pictures, drawing, graphics, photos:
I don't know how to solve this problem yet. Because I can't travel to Tchernobyl only to take pictures of nuclear power plants by myself. I'm too bad at drawing and so I think I have to take pictures from the internet. (licensefree pictures or whatelse)
What is my heat source?
In our house we heat with a wood stove that is located in the kitchen.
That is our only heat source and we don't have anything else.
Our house is a very old one and that's the reason we don't heat with solar energy or electricity.
More...
This post is about the energie consumption in Thailand and in Switzerland. It is very interesting to see how big the difference between these two countries is.
- Energie consumption at a normal household in Thailand in a year: 168.3 billion kWh
Energie consumption in Thailand in a year per person: 2'422.26 kWh
- Energie consumption at a normal household in Switzerland in a year:
58.45 billion billion kWh
Energie consumption in Switzerland in a year per person: 6'914.25 kWh
Numbers from 2016
My to-do-list for today contains of writing our introduction in web-publishing in word-press and finish the evaluation of our survey. After that, we have to make our voice recording of the survey and we will make a little video of our interviews as well. But at first we concentrate us on one step and then on the other.
There is still a lot of work ahead of us but we are optimistic that we will make it.
- [header pic]
- [good title of the project]
- [short introduction]
- [content of our project]
- [media (images...)]
- [survey from kobotoolbox]
- [interviews with DiethelmTravel and HotelPlan]
- [our analysis and opinion with audio podcast and selfmade-video]
- [mentions of the team members and collaboration partners]
Hey everyone!
We are doing a project about sustainable tourism and we have created a survey.
It would be nice if you could fill out our survey, so that we can reach more people.
Thank you very much for filling out our survey!
Here is the link to the survey --> https://ee.humanitarianresponse.info/x/fYrN67lj
The following is some research from secondary literature about sustainable Tourism:
Advantages of sustainable Tourism
- Benefits local community
- Helps to converse precious nature resources
- Gives tourist more honest look in local area
- Helps saving endangered animals
How can you travel more sustainable?
- Don’t litter
- Bring reusable water bottles, straws and tote bags to avoid single use plastic
- Respect and follow local customs
- Ask before photographing people, especially children (ask their parents!)
- Support local shops
- Don’t support unethical animal tourism
Travel Options:
Cool and sustainable Accomondations:
- Treehouse / CHF 90 per night
- The Sarojin / CHF 250 per night
- Zeavola / CHF 290 per night
Podcast
Podcast.mp4
Project by Rémy and Lia
- Determine the data from the survey
- Like, support and comment the new instagram posts of "Don't waste my energy"
Partner: Lia
Vision
I think in the future it would be bad to travel if we don't take enough care to our environment. If we don't take action now, our future doesn't look really bright when you believe in the statistics which were made by scientists. But everybody wants a future where the children can grow up safely. We have to start now because it's too late if we start in 10 years.
Imagination
My imagination is, that there is a world where you can travel sustainable and don't use plastic anymore which is extremly bad for the environment. The aim in the near future is, that plastic waste will be reduced to a minimum so that we don't see so much waste in the nature.