Thank you and Farewell.

TLT Batch 2011-2012

For every quarter, students from different grade levels in our school are made to do a C.E.O. (Creative Expansion Output) in every subject on whatever topic they are discussing. For this last quarter our batch was made to do a blogging project for our science class, and written on our blog posts are answers to the questions that our science teacher will be asking us, which he will post on Facebook or at the sciencebloggingproject.blogspot.com. After making a blog post we are required to comment on an assigned group with the following criteria: content, coherence, creativity, voice, mechanics, text layout, graphics and multimedia, and intellectual honesty. It doesn't end there, for every post that we make, a group will comment on ours and we will comment on theirs or another's then, our teacher will comment and grade everyone's posts and comments.

Before our teacher let us begin, he showed us a short video on how to make a blog to help us get started. Surprisingly, the very next day Jose had already started creating our blog so that we could begin making our first post. We didn't start on our post not until we were able to decide on the design of our blog. This is where we had a trouble on, picking a template. It took time deciding on which template to choose since there were around 4 good ones. A long thinking process took place and we ended up with the template your seeing right now. Another problem was, we were too focused on doing posts that we forgot to comment on one group and it was due 8 days ago so we had eight points deduction.


Despite the low grades that we acquired on some of the posts, it was still fun making the blog posts because while making them we were able to express our opinions that we kept to ourselves. So, if we were asked if we would do this again, we'd gladly say yes. I mean it wouldn't kill us if we were to do it all again but if were to do it again it will be great if there aren't any deadlines. This idea of our teacher making a blog as a C.E.O. was actually very creative, him asking us questions about our field trip is like writing a reaction paper. And to improve this C.E.O. we think that the next batch should have more field trips because what happened in our batch was we only talked about the field trip to PCC and BNPP which is why the questions only revolved around those 2 places.

Do not procrastinate!

We are asked if there's anything we want to change about how our C.E.O. was handled, and our answer is none we wouldn't really want to change anything because it's already well thought of. We don't really think that there's anything to change, we actually liked the people's choice award because even though we didn't get much votes we were able to talk to friends who we haven't talked to for months. And we learned something really important while doing this project, it was to not procrastinate because everything becomes harder when you let it off for tomorrow.

Thank you everyone!

Well, we hope that you enjoyed our posts and we are also very thankful for the readers who took time to read this. Thank to our teacher too because through this C.E.O. it got us worked up to exceed our best so that we could win a best blog post. Also we would like to thank you for this wonderful experience, thinking that this would be a really hard project it came out to be something really helpful. This was a first time for us and we really enjoyed it, we hope that the next batch will also have a great time doing this blogging project.

J.A.E.Y.L. here,

signing out

Le open or Le close

BNPP has been quite a talk in our batch lately and others have taken their sides already, using a scenario we'll tell you which side were on.

Power shortage

Pretend that I’ve been elected president of the Philippines, the country is suffering from a power crisis and the only solution is opening the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). So, it’s up to me whether or not to open it and I say we should. I know that there’s a huge risk upon this decision, especially having the nesting place of the endangered marine turtles only an 8 minute ride away. There is a risk of a meltdown, the power plant is also located near dormant volcanoes, there are problems towards the disposal of nuclear energy, no power plant is 100% safe, and 3 major effects of radiation are cancer, genetic mutation, and radiation sieness. However, there are no other solutions to choose from, therefore the BNPP should be opened. 


It’s quite a decision looking at all the disadvantages but, not opening it will become our economies down fall. Looking at other countries, many are already in use of power plants and as we are using the power plant, I will make sure that we do not depend on the power plant alone since there are other alternative sources. There are also advantages towards the opening of the BNPP, electricity will cost less and there is only a few emission of carbon dioxide. It may be only a few advantages but it can change a lot towards our country. Many will be able to afford electricity and as said earlier only little pollution comes from it.  So, this is only our opinion you may have taken another side however we just wanted to share what we think.

Thank you for taking your time in reading this, until next time.

Go Nuclear or No Nuclear?

Hello everyone! J.A.E.Y.L is back and we are here to talk about nuclear energy.

What is nuclear energy? Nuclear Energy originates from the splitting of uranium atoms in a process called fission. At the power plant, the fission process is used to generate heat for producing steam, which is used by a turbine to generate electricity. 

Nuclear Energy symbol

                                             
 How is nuclear energy produced? There are two methods on producing nuclear energy. One method is Nuclear Fission. In nuclear fission, the nuclei of atoms are split, causing energy to be released. Uranium is the element being used as the main fuel for fission take place. Uranium nuclei can be easily split by shooting neutrons at them. Also, once a uranium nucleus is split, multiple neutrons are released which are used to split other uranium nuclei. 

Nuclear Fission

The other method being used is Nuclear Fusion. Nuclear fusion is the process by  which two or more atomic nuclei join together, or "fuse", to form a single heavier nucleus.  This happens only under very hot conditions. Fusion is the process that powers active stars, the hydrogen bomb and some experimental devices examining fusion power for     electrical generation .

Nuclear Fussion

But let us put all things aside and see what are the advantages and disadvantages of Nuclear Energy. In this entry we will be showing both sides of the coin. First is the advantages. The Earth has limited supplies of coal and oil. Nuclear power plants could still produce electricity after coal and oil become scarce. This is because uranium has a long lifespan. Second, Nuclear power plants need less fuel than ones which burn fossil fuels. One ton of uranium produces more energy than is produced by several million tons of coal or several million barrels of oil. This means, less money being wasted. Third, coal and oil burning plants pollute the   air. Well-operated nuclear power plants do not release contaminants  into the environment. This would mean a less polluted Earth which would slow delay global warming.    

Power Plant 

Now time for the disadvantages. First, nuclear explosions produce radiation. The nuclear radiation harms the cells of the body which can make people sick or even kill them. Illness can strike people years after their exposure to nuclear radiation. Second,   One possible type of reactor disaster is known as a meltdown. In such an accident, the fission reaction goes out of control, leading to a nuclear explosion and the emission of great amounts of radiation. Two examples of this are The Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Lastly,  nuclear reactors only last for about forty to fifty years.    

                                                      
We are very much in favour in harnessing nuclear energy because electricity will cost less which is a huge advantage to us because we are now living in the present generation filled with technology. However considering that a lot of lives will be at stake it will be best to not harness energy since citizens are an important factor in a country.

Bataan Nuclear Power Plant

After coming to the Pawikan Conservation Center we went to the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). Before our trip even started, we've been expecting to learn so many things about nuclear energy and on how it's formed. We didn't take up this lesson last year so there are so many things that we have yet to learn. During our stay in BNPP there was a lady who first gave us an introduction about the BNPP. While she was lecturing us these were the notes that we took down. The construction of the BNPP started 1976 under the rule of President Ferdinand Marcos. It has a twin power plant in South Korea named Kori II. By 1979 an accident occurred in United States the Three Mile Island and so construction of the BNPP was stopped. After the lady gave out the introduction we were toured inside the BNPP. We found the control room the most interesting because it had so many switches, it would need around 10 to operate it. In the control room there was an old laptop which caught most of our interest. It was really rusty but it was amazing seeing one up close for the very first time. There was also a one way mirror, the ones in the outside aren't able to see the ones inside however the ones inside can see the others outside.




The trip was really fun and you'd really learn a lot through this experience. Thank you for reading our post till next time.