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=**Background pages** = Log into the LEARNZ Renewable Energy field trip **Read the background pages** (remember - try to read the Std pages) **Choose 1 background page from each group to comment on here** Include: your name, the name of the page and your response/comment **Biomass Energy** || I wonder how much corn or sugar cane would be needed to create enough ethanol to run my car for a week? Could the fermenting process be set up in someone's backyard? Would there need to be changes made to the engine of my car for it to run on ethanol? I will need to do some further investigation to answer these questions. || ||
 * ~ Group 1 ||~ Group 2 ||~ Group 3 ||
 * * Energy
 * Renewable Energy
 * Biomass Energy || * What are Wood Pellets
 * Wood Pellets - Advantages & Disadvant.
 * Who is Using Wood Pellets || * The Carbon Cycle
 * The Greenhouse Effect
 * Climate Change
 * What You Can Do To Help ||
 * Jennie
 * Ethan
 * Solar PV energy** || We should put some solar panels on our roof because then we won't get any more electric bills and it will be less harmful for the environment. We could make a machine that stores the energy so we can use it on a cloudy day or at night. Like power plants do. Do they have power plants that use just solar panels? ||
 * EThan
 * Wood pellet fires** || My caregiver Jackie has a wood pellet fire and it does exactly what the website says. You put the pellets in the top at the back and then it drops pellets into the fire one by one, sometimes it does three or four. Its actually warmer than our fires at home. At my house we have two wood fires. We cut down wood and put them in the fire. The advantage of our fires is that we don't pay for our wood. We get it for free by scavenging wood that people cut down and leave to rot. I would like to get a pellet fire but mum says no because then we will have to buy wood pellets and it will cost more. I like that wood pellets produce less ash and smoke, so they are better than wood fires. ||
 * Ethan
 * Climate change** || We need to build more wind farms so we don't run out of energy. The first photo is my Uncle Aaron on top of a wind turbine in Ireland last week. He is trying to fix it. You must be crazy to do that. What if a big gust of wind came by and knocked him off? He designs and runs wind farms. The second photo shows how big the turbine blades are. This is my Uncle next to it. He looks like an ant!