I got two questions from my teacher a couple of days ago about energy and the environment. Here they come! (And what i answerd...)

1. Think about a way to get energy, which is not from fossil fuels.

Invent or present a alternative way you heard of.

I thought about the bicycle-lights that don’t need any batteries, the ones that start shining when you ride your bike. What if you could make something like that... But you attach some sort of machine-box-thingy that can store the energy that you build up while riding your bike? 

And it would be great if you could charge your technical things, like your phone or your computer at any time you want, with the energy that you have built up. Maybe you could save the energy, and then sell it and earn some money? You could take the little machine-box of your bike and bring it to some sort of station where they attract the energy out of the box. The energy you sold could be used for such things as trains, the subway, or to warm up houses? (Or other electronic-things like escalators, elevators, you name it)

But exactly how that is supposed to be invented, I have no idea.

2. Which one is most environment friendly. Paper or your computer?

Reflections and argument why!

I’m not really sure at all, that totally depends on the user of the computer. 

Is the user of the computer very careful when he/she is around it, or does the user do whatever he/she wants? 

If you don’t take care of your computer you’ll have to throw it after a little while, and... Well, it’s not so environment-friendly to buy new computers all the time.

But paper can easily be overused... 

It’s easy to write a couple of words on a paper, make something wrong and then just throw it.  What if you are a person who love to write, and then like print out your novels that you just wrote? Or if you love to print out pictures and tape them to your wall? (Or you just like to draw?) Then alot of paper is used... But ofcourse there are some people that almost never print out things, or write by hand. 

So I don’t really know what I think, but if I had to say something... I would probably say that my computer is more environment-friendly... Because you need new paper everytime you want to do something, but you only need one computer for a very long time.

Toodles! :D