Above is a short video that has to do with the article I read.
In the article I read about today, Tropicana (a fruit drink producer, as we all know) decided that to raise awareness for the benefits of fruit, they created an ad campaign to display how not only is fruit beneficial for your body, but for other resources as well. For this particular campaign, they took a group of oranges, and placed two medal rods in each orange (one rod was zinc, the other copper.) When the rods are placed in sync with the orange, a chemical change occurs within the orange, which creates a small form of power. This power allows for the flow of electrical current to take place, and sweep into whatever unit is on the opposite end of the electrical cords. In essence, oranges, lemons, and other fruits of similar chemical structures can power equipment requiring electricity! This would seem like a great alternate energy source, alas, it would be almost impossible to use.
Just to give power to charge an iphone, it would require approximately 2,380 orange slices for the iphone to be able to recharge. Just from the picture listed above under the video (the video is the filmed process of the creation of the above picture for those who didn't watch it), you can see how many oranges alone it would take just to solely charge that small amount of light. So even though we have another potential power supply, it would require many, many oranges if we ever wanted to use them to help juice (no pun intended) homes and power plants, factories, etc; much more fruit would need to be produced not just for eating, but also for powering, which is why it would be also pretty much impossible. Overall, we'll just have to keep searching for alternate energy sources. Even so, it's interesting to see what kind of creations mother nature does have in store for us.
Okay, so my questions are:
1. What are some other potential alternate energy resources we could use, other than the obvious ones we talked about/mentioned in class? (ex: I used orange juice power)
2. Why is finding an alternate energy source so important? Should we even care? Why? Explain your viewpoint on the situation.
3. What are other ways that companies can raise awareness for health and environmental problems? Name some ideas for campaigns they could use and why they would be useful, or list some you already known of.
I think this idea is okay but clearly not enough to replace coal in any way. i think that it is great because it is renewable but it doesn't give off nearly enough electricity in order to help our fossil fuel problems. I think that if something else were to come about like this that was similar but produced a greater amount of energy that it would be a great idea especially considering that if we can just basically go outside and grow our energy.
ReplyDeletethis reminds me of a sort of potatoe clock. it is a sort of typical science project that is commonly mentioned. i never really thought it was possible but after seeing about this i have second thoughts. I also think that if someone can find a way to make a fruit or vegtable create power that anything can pretty much create power.
2. finding an alternate energy sournce es extremely important because with out , we will have no power, and our society can't function without some sort of power. it is also important so the enviroment can continue to be safe or else we will not be safe in it. Once we stop hurting the enviroment and using up fuel we have very little of, then we can be assured that we will have power and a healthy enviornment for many years to come.
This is a really cool idea. Yet if it takes almost 3,000 oranges to charge one iPhone it doesn't seem capable to power anything else. If we could harness more power from the orange then I think this would be great or if we could power a car with this. Our need for energy only increases and there is no way that we could produce enough oranges to provide for a whole household. This could be turned into a great idea but we can't get enough energy from oranges yet.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of how large companies are trying to be better for the environment. It shows that if Trropicana can create energy with just oranges maybe other companies will be able to be just the same and be better for the environment.
2. Finding another energy source is so important because we will eventually run out of the current energy sources. We should obviously care too because we don't want the environment to crash because we used too many harmful energy products. So my viewpoint on this situation is that we need to do so much more to try to create more energy sources so we don't run out of the stuff we have.
The idea that oranges would produce energy is very unique, I know I wouldn't have thought of anything close to that. Its too bad that they produce so little because oranges (and other acidic fruits) are obviously renewable.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of GMOs because a farmer somewhere is using it to make sure the oranges survive through the cold seasons. They could genetically mutate an orange so it can produce more energy.
3. Some companies are already doing things to their products to make their consumers more aware of the environment. Deer Park is making their bottled with less plastic, and the same with Nestle, Poland Spring, and others alike.