The temperature has been rising since the year 1901. The may cause of this is because of CO2 emission. The US is one of the countries with the highest CO2 emissions. High CO2 levels is also the reason for the insane weather storms that have been happening since 2012.

Obama’s Clean Power Plan will help reduce CO2 levels and cut peoples’ electric bills in half. By finding ways to find less expensive alternative energy sources people will be able to pay less. Also people are excepted to become healthier because of the reduction of pollution in the air. The plan is for the Environmental Protection Agency will propose guidelines for each state to follow. The EPA will set a goal for each state for how much CO2 they should be cutting out and the states will try to get to that goal. The plan’s goal is to cut electricity bills by 8% by the year 2030. Overall Obama’s Plan is quiet simple to save money and be healthier the US needs to find ways to cut down on CO2 and get more product for the energy used.

http://www2.epa.gov/carbon-pollution-standards/fact-sheet-clean-power-plan-overview

http://www2.epa.gov/carbon-pollution-standards/fact-sheet-clean-power-plan-benefits

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/06/18/2014-13726/carbon-pollution-emission-guidelines-for-existing-stationary-sources-electric-utility-generating

For the past 2 weeks in we split into partners built a robot car and discovered how to program it to drive in circles, different directions and different speeds. Building the robot was actually quite confusing even with the directions because of all the different lego pieces that went into it. Besides what is shown a battery had to be attached to the bottom of the car to give it power to move. 

Using a USB chord we were able to input instructions for how the robot should move by using the computer program Lab View and then transferring them from the computer onto into the robot. As my partner and I tried programing different speeds into each wheel we realized that keeping the wheels at the same speed allowed the robot to move in a straight line. When we changed the speed of one wheel the robot would turn in a circle. Another assignment the class got was to see if the robots distance traveled could be calculated before the robot moved. By taking the diameter of the wheel in centimeters and then multiplying that number by .01, so that the number could be converted to meters. Finally by multiplying the product by Pi the final answer gives the circumference of the wheel. The circumference is important because the distance traveled when a wheel does one turn is equal to the circumference. Using LabView the computer is able to calculate the number of times the wheel turns. Telling the computer the circumference of the wheel and multiplying that number by the number of turns allowed by the computer to calculate the distance traveled. My partner and I got these results:

There was only some difference in my and my partner’s results the error is most likely from the diameter measurement being incorrect. In conclusion however it is shown in this test the less amount of power the car has the less distance is traveled.

The Automobile Industry hopes to have mpg in the 30s by 2016. By 2025 the industry hopes to have this numbers basically doubled.

The two main ways to increase gas milage that the industry is looking into is electricity and a start-stop engine. An electric car would run on electricity which would need to be charged every once in awhile. A  start-stop engine is an engine that stops when the car is not in motion to avoid gas waste. Although electric cars are now a common thing people are still uneasy about the start-stop engine. What happens if the engine doesn’t start again and the car is stuck?  Automobile companies are still try to find ways to get around this. Engines cannot start all at once so what happens if someone in a traffic jam wants to move into an opening? Before this is common practice companies need to learn more about it. Basically there isn’t really a best way to increase gas milage without building an entire new engine.

MPG is tested in a lab where a car is run in a simulator that goes through different environments and different speeds.

Many people are afraid of the cost because if the technology of a car is more high tech it is more expensive. The industry argues with that even though the car is more expensive the savings in gas will be tremendous. Therefore once the car is paid off it will be worth because u will be cutting your gas bills in half.

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Gitlin, Jonathan, and Kyle Niemeyer. “The Road Ahead: How We’ll Get to 54.5 Mpg by 2025.” Arstechnica. 8 Oct. 2012. Web. 19 Sept. 2014. http://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/the-road-ahead-how-well-get-to-54-5-mpg-by-2025/2/

Vlasic, Bill. “U.S. Sets Higher Fuel Efficiency Standards.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 28 Aug. 2012. Web. 19 Sept. 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/business/energy-environment/obama-unveils-tighter-fuel-efficiency-standards.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1411118291-+UUJnv32QxmeCh3HcNWmAg