Extra Credit: Blue Planet Hawaii

Reading about Blue Planet Hawaii, I learned a lot of stuff that can benefit the state of Hawaii in the future. Blue Planet Hawaii is starting up a foundation to help save good energy and supplies as much as they can. In this website I see that they show many different types of energy technology that could be used towards the better of our future. I learned how to measure energy, and exactly what the numbers in this signify. "Rigorous definitions of power and energy can be somewhat difficult to present and understand, but a very simple automotive metaphor actually describes these concepts quite clearly in a way that is sufficient for our purposes here: power is the size of your engine and energy is the size of your gas tank." This is very interesting to me because it is very easy to understand.

Another thing that I learned was that the basic unit of electrical power is the watt and virtually all electrical products such as computer and light bulbs. and these are all clearly labeled to how much electrical power they require for operation. In this website there is a lot of useful information that I could take towards my life and bring it to the environment that I live in. And living in Hawaii for about two years, I see the diversity of alternative energy. “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait ‘til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” --Thomas Edison (1847–1931) this is a very important quote that I read and I thought this is a good way to spend money. We need to save our energy for the future because one day we might just run out.

Overall, reading about the Blue Planet Hawaii got me thinking about not only my future but the future to where we live. It is good to care about the environment and where we live and save the resources that we have to live better. We have to be cautious in the way we live our lives and not waist what we have in bad ways. After looking at this website I will try my best to help out any way I can, and for a start, I decided to make a donation to the Blue Planet Hawaii.