The Keystone XL Pipeline is an oil pipeline from Canada and runs into United States. The pipe is from Alberta, Canada and gets refined in Illinois and Texas. After that it gets distributed in Oklahoma. The first part of the pipes is 2,147 mi it was completed in June 2010.  The part is 300 mi and was completed in February 2011. The third part was completed in January 2014 and another part of it will be completed in 2015. The proposed is going to duplicate part 1 and 2. The pipe itself will carry crude oil from Alberta, Canada to Steele City, Nebraska. Currently only 40% of the pipe line is complete. This will be located right in middle of the United States. When completed the pipe line will move 830,000 barrels a day. That could supply so much oil to the US. Currently the environmental issue the pipe faces is a little greenhouse gas but other than that the pipes seem to be fine to the environment. The pipeline seems like a great idea for since we do import gas and this could save so much time and money on the American economy. As of now this plan has been approved by senate and will move forward. This pipeline will do some great things for the American economy and society. 

When the class was assigned a group project I felt like I was the only one that was going to do all work. But as of week 2 so far I was wrong. My group and I first scoured the websites that were given to us. After a half hour pasted we still hadn’t found anything that interested us so we decided to split up and look on our own for a little bit. After 10-15 minutes pasted we decided to perform the experiment of race day. Race day was to how much velocity a toy car had going down a ramp. We had finalized the idea but when we heard the group next to us was going to do the same experiment we decided to change it. On the second day only two members of the group were we decided on the experiment. The experiment we were going to demonstrate was a calorimetry. The calorimetry experiment we were going demonstrate involved burning food and when I asked Dr. Shatz if it was ok she responded by saying no she does not trust kids with fire since she had a bad experience with it in a past class. When that idea got shut down we decided to a lemon battery lab. The lemon battery lab was where you stick a nail in one end of a lemon and a penny in the other end. When you do that the nail becomes the negative end of a battery and the penny becomes the positive end of the battery. We had wanted to try and charge a cell phone with the lemons but that would require a lot of lemons. In the end we had to decide on the lemon battery definitely because the due date of the proposal was fast approaching. Even if we cannot charge a phone we would like to power a small led bulb or even a few of them.

Last week the class preformed the Generator Experiment. The generator experiment required a few things such as one generator which was an empty flash light with a part of it wrapped in copper wire with a magnet inside it. It also required a voltage probe, a NXT adapter, a NXT, and of course Excel. We first had to open up lab view and get the lab from the blog. After that was all set up we ten had to run lab view for 30 seconds while that ran we had to shake the generator as fast as we could and we had to count how many times we shacked. We then had to repeat that again but shake slower than the first time. But the first thing we had to do before anything was not even shake the generator what so ever. After we did that we opened excel and the data was imported in and we got the average. This lab was not that long at all my partner and I were done pretty quickly. The data we got I located below.