It was a great pleasure for me to hear from the three great proffesors. First of all, I would like to thank all of them for giving us a wonderful presentation. Prof Palmer mainly explained us about the capture and storage techniques of carbon dioxide in the ocean. Followed by, Dr Sovacool who gave us a speech on renewable power and electric motor. At last, Assoc Prof Bala gave us a clear picture on changes in climate.
Prof Palmer has lectured us on the effect of green house gases and he showed us one of the way to reduce carbon dioxide emmission in the atmosphere. That is, CO2 can be stored in the ocean by using carbon capture techniques and can be put inside a membrane so that the ocean water won't get acidic leaving marine life safe. As we all know, CO2 is produced by burning coal. Therefore the emmission of CO2 can be reduced by using gas, biomass, solar or wind energy instead of coal.
Dr Sovacool from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, shared with us about his case studies on renewable power and electric motors through Science and Technology Studies. His speech was separated into STS,two case studies and conclusion. He explained on how technology has improved through the years to tackle global warming. The first case study was about the rejection of electric vehicles and nuclear energy and the second case study was about the technology when improved can be used to solve the global warming problems.
Assoc Prof Bala elobrated more on the climate change assessment and mitigation. He also explained us how people around the world are affected due to the global warming. He suggested some measures to mitigate global warming. For example, Government should impose tax on companies which impose green house gases and public should be educated to use renewable energy sources.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Global Warming - 'An Inconvenient Truth'
Global Warming is one of the biggest problem that both developed and developing countries are facing now. Global warming is caused due to the increase in temperature in the atmosphere layers. As Mr. Al Gore explained, the increase in carbon dioxide and other green house gases has increased the temperature of the earth in the past years. Excess increase in temperature will increase the velocity of water which in turn causes sea level to raise.
In order to reduce global warming, all the countries in the world should work together. Public and private sectors must be educated with basic causes of global warming and the impact on it. In India, there has been many steps taken to reduce the emission of green house gases and efficient use of energies. The great Himalayas on the north of India is melting due to excess heat from the sun which raises the sea water level. As a result, two low-lying islands in Sunderbans were submerged causing death of thousands of people. This will also reduce the availability of fresh water. Since the southern part of India is surrounded by ocean water, increase in temperature in the sea might cause huricanes and cyclones in the coming decades.
India has taken many steps in order to reduce global warming. One of them is the signing of Tyoto Protocol on August 2002, together with many countries in the world. The main goal of the Tyoto Protocol is to achieve "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system". Even though, India is not the main contributor of green gas emmission, as a developing nation it has the responsibility to control global warming together with other nations.
In order to reduce global warming, people must be educated on the impact of global warming, how they are creating it and how to reduce them. Many special interest group can control industries to reduce their emission of green house gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexaflouride etc... As a citizen of this world, each and every person should understand their responsibility in protecting the resources of nature.
In order to reduce global warming, all the countries in the world should work together. Public and private sectors must be educated with basic causes of global warming and the impact on it. In India, there has been many steps taken to reduce the emission of green house gases and efficient use of energies. The great Himalayas on the north of India is melting due to excess heat from the sun which raises the sea water level. As a result, two low-lying islands in Sunderbans were submerged causing death of thousands of people. This will also reduce the availability of fresh water. Since the southern part of India is surrounded by ocean water, increase in temperature in the sea might cause huricanes and cyclones in the coming decades.
India has taken many steps in order to reduce global warming. One of them is the signing of Tyoto Protocol on August 2002, together with many countries in the world. The main goal of the Tyoto Protocol is to achieve "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system". Even though, India is not the main contributor of green gas emmission, as a developing nation it has the responsibility to control global warming together with other nations.
In order to reduce global warming, people must be educated on the impact of global warming, how they are creating it and how to reduce them. Many special interest group can control industries to reduce their emission of green house gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexaflouride etc... As a citizen of this world, each and every person should understand their responsibility in protecting the resources of nature.
World of Engineers
Engineers with their systematic critical analysis have become a workforce of technology who builds, manufactures and manage informations in today's world. Engineers are being trained to think systematically starting from their tertiary education. They are required almost in all the fields ranging from building houses to banking. The systematic approach of engineers has made them more attractive towards all the fields to lay down better solutions.
The tremondous achievements in technology has made them more popular. In the past, engineers are meant for building and manufacturing product. But nowadays in the universities and polytechnics, engineers are trained with logical approach and critical way of thinking solutions to problem like health care, global warming. Apart from developing new technologies, engineers also play an important role in protecting the people from natural disasters by inventing monitoring and warning systems against tsunami, hurricanes, etc...
Many top universities in the world are producing tremendous number of world class top engineers. This has been achieved by practical and efficient way of teaching things to them and also by giving hands on experience about the problems. Engineers are not only trained in their own faculty but also trained as a multi disciplinary person by taking modules from business, design and other faculties. Nowadays, Globalisation needs more informations within short period of time, trained engineers are recruited for their systematic approach in lesser time.
The tremondous achievements in technology has made them more popular. In the past, engineers are meant for building and manufacturing product. But nowadays in the universities and polytechnics, engineers are trained with logical approach and critical way of thinking solutions to problem like health care, global warming. Apart from developing new technologies, engineers also play an important role in protecting the people from natural disasters by inventing monitoring and warning systems against tsunami, hurricanes, etc...
Many top universities in the world are producing tremendous number of world class top engineers. This has been achieved by practical and efficient way of teaching things to them and also by giving hands on experience about the problems. Engineers are not only trained in their own faculty but also trained as a multi disciplinary person by taking modules from business, design and other faculties. Nowadays, Globalisation needs more informations within short period of time, trained engineers are recruited for their systematic approach in lesser time.
In day today life, engineers will be facing different problems in their work place. Solving them needs step by step analysis. Engineers should be trained to learn things newly in shorter time, because this will help them to solve problems and invent things newly and quickly in all fields. The importance of engineers is growing very rapidly in the past decades due to the invention of new technologies. With no doubt, this growth will continue in the future.
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