Renewable energies

Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable.

Mainstream forms of renewable energy are:

Wind power: Airflows can be used to run wind turbines. Areas where winds are stronger and more constant, such as offshore and high altitude sites, are the best places for wind farms. Typical capacity factors are 20-40%.

Hydropower: Energy in water can be harnessed and used. Since water is about 800 times denser than air, even a slow flowing stream of water, or moderate sea swell, can provide amounts of energy. There are many forms of water energy: Micro hydro, hydroelectric, ocean energy…

Solar energy: Solar energy is the energy from the sun in the form of solar radiation.

Biomass: Liquid biofuel is usually either bioalcohol such as bioethanol or an oil such as biodiesel. Bioethanol is an alcohol made by fermenting the sugar components of plant materials. Biodiesel is made from vegetable oils, animal fats or recycled greases. Biodiesel can be used as a fuel for vehicles.

Geothermal energy: Geothermal energy is energy obtained by tapping the heat of the earth itself, both from kilometers deep into the Earth's crust or from shallow depths, as in geothermal heat pumps.

In my opinion this is a high innovation to improve the convenctional energies because these type of energies are much better than the others because they are cleaner. Even though they are more expensive than the tradicional ones.

Bulimia

Bulimia is an eating disorder characterized by restraining of food intake for a period of time followed by an over intake that results in feelings of guilt and low self-esteem. It starts at about 18 years of age.

The most common form is defensive vomiting, fasting, the use of laxatives, enemas, diuretics, and over exercising are also common. Bulimia is nine times more likely to occur in women than men.

These cycles often involve rapid and out-of-control eating, which may stop when the bulimic is interrupted by another person or the stomach hurts from overextension, followed by self-induced vomiting. This cycle may be repeated several times a week or, in more serious cases, several times a day.

Bulimics are much more likely than non-bulimics to have an affective disorder, such as depression or general anxiety disorder.

This is a very important and high problem: on the one hand because sometimes it can cause annorexia and seriously psicological problems and on the other hand because it's so sad for the person who suffer this and his family.

Summer work and crisis

Now it’s time to find a job for this summer because eighteen years old teenagers waste a lot of money:

First of all, they have to pay the college (and if it’s private more money), so it’s an important expense; secondlly, the driving licence which costs a lot of money and when they have it, the often have to buy a car.

In conclusion, all of this is a great expense.

So, teenagers have to look for a job, usually in bars, restaurants, camp sites, supermarkets... And it means that we spend a lot of hours working and with a low salary.

But nowadays, it’s so hard! We have an economic crisis which complicates the matter.

In addition, people who have businesses want their workers to be more than eighteen years old or minimum twenty, maybe because they have more experiance than boys or girls who are sixteen of seventeen years old.

So, in my opinion it is so complicated of difficult to find a job and if you get one, maybe you don’t earn so much money because in their place there are more people who want to do their work.

And everything is caused because of the crisis.

New (1)

Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant faces new reactor problem

 

 

The emergency cooling system is no longer functioning at the No.3 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, requiring the facility to urgently secure a means to supply water to the reactor, an official of the Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told a news conference.

On Saturday, an explosion blew off the roof and upper walls of the building housing the facility's No. 1 reactor, stirring alarm over a possible major radiation release, although the government later said the explosion had not affected the reactor's core vessel and that only a small amount of radiation had been released.

The nuclear safety agency official said there was a possibility that at least nine individuals had been exposed to radiation, according to information gathered from municipal governments and other sources.

Summary:

A quake-hit Japanese nuclear plant reeling from an explosion at one of its reactors has also lost its emergency cooling system of another reactor.

Japan’s nuclear power safety agency said on Sunday.

Personal opinion:

The earthquake that happened in Japan caused two reactions: on the one hand, it caused a terrible tsunami which destroyed a lot of buildings, cars and the worst is that people died.

And on the other hand, it caused a nuclear power accident which hasn’t cause an immediate problem for the society (only a low percent of people have radioactivity) but this could generate illness now and later.

Song

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (L)

I like this song so much beause of its author, Bruno Mars. He is a very good singer and I love his voice.

I chose this song for the lyrics, because it arouses a lot of good feelings. It talks about a couple. The boy sings this song to his girlfriend and he thinks that she’s perfect, although she thinks that she doesn’t look well. I identify myself with it because I live this situation everyday with my boyfriend.

My favourite moment in the song is this:

“When I see your facethere’s not a thing that I would changeCause you are amazing
Just the way you are.
And when you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
Cause girl you are amazingJust the way you are”

I think it is wonderful to find the perfect partner. Everybody knows that nobody is complete and we all have faults and defects but I think that there is nothing nicer than to find the person you love beautiful even though the years go by.

I hope that even when I am seventy years old and I don’t love the person so much, I will still find him as perfect as ever.

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Bin Laden's body buried at sea

The dilemma of what to do with Osama bin Laden's body appears to have been quickly resolved if reports that he has been buried at sea prove correct.
Burying him on land could have led to his grave becoming a centre of contention as well as raising questions about where he should be buried.
"Finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist would have been difficult," a US official said, adding: "So the US decided to bury him at sea."
Fears about Bin Laden's burial place turning into a shrine for Islamists were probably unfounded, since the Wahhabi/Salafi tradition rejects such things. Even Saudi kings are buried in unmarked graves.
Senior US officials initially told news agencies that his body would be disposed of in accordance with Islamic tradition, which involves ritual washing, shrouding and burial within 24 hours.
Although the swift burial complies with Islamic custom and should therefore avoid causing any offence in Muslim countries, the apparent haste could lead to claims that the person killed was not really Bin Laden – though the US authorities have taken DNA samples and appear to have no doubts.
The 24-hour rule has not always been applied by the US in the past. For example, the bodies of Uday and Qusay Hussein – sons of the Iraqi dictator – were held for 11 days before being released for burial.
Burial at sea is rare in Islam, though several Muslim websites say it is permitted in certain circumstances.
One is on a long voyage where the body may decay before the ship reaches land. The other is if there is a risk of enemies digging up a land grave and exhuming or mutilating the body – a rule that could plausibly be applied in Bin Laden's case.
For sea burial, according to alislam.org, the body should be lowered into the water "in a vessel of clay or with a weight tied to its feet". The website adds: "As far as possible it should not be lowered at a point where it is eaten up immediately by the sea predators."

Summary:

The new talks about Bin Laden’s death. The US soldiers killed him and they buried his body at sea.

Seniro US officials told news agencies that his body would be disposed of in accordance with Islamic tradition. But Muslim countries think that this is an offence.

Somebody thinks that the person killed was not really Bin Laden.

Personal opinion:

In my opinion this is an international news item and everybody knows what happened to Bin Laden.

The US soldiers looked for him since the different attemps that Al-Qaeda did.

I think that Osama Bin Laden uses the religion to do terrorists attemps and to dominate the people who are in his group (in my point of view, it’s a sect).

I really don’t know if Osama Bin Laden is dead or not, but I hop so, because he’s maybe the worst person in the world.