High-Level Project Summary
We develop a new solutions for global warming.It solves the challenge by providing a creative solutions for climate change.It's important because it talk about serious issue for our planet.
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Detailed Project Description
Climate change is a serious issue that threatens humanity. Global warming plays a huge role in climate change, as it’s a crucial aspect. Our team will be focusing on the issue of global warming that continues to jeopardize our planet.
Global warming is the long-term heating of the Earth's surface, observed since the pre-industrial period (1750-1850) due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning, which increase greenhouse gas levels in the Earth's atmosphere. Greenhouse gases are gases in the Earth's atmosphere that trap heat and prevent it from going back to space. This heat takes the form of sunlight and solar radiation, which includes infrared rays. This is the reason why our planet is heating up. Greenhouse gases mainly contain carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapor.
One of the most immediate and obvious consequences of global warming is the global increase in temperatures. The average global temperature has increased by nearly 1.1 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. Changes of one or two degrees in the average temperature of the planet can cause potentially dangerous shifts in climate and weather.
Glaciers are melting much faster than expected. From 2000 to 2019, the rate of glacier melt accelerated from an estimated .36 meters per year to .69 meters per year. In turn, the authors believe that glacier melt has contributed to an estimated 21% of sea level rise since 2000 – almost a quarter of an inch.
Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH value of the Earth's oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. Modern ocean acidification is caused by the burning of fossil fuels
The Nile River is a substantial water source for millions of people. The Nile provides about 85 percent of Egypt's water. Due to global warming, experts expect the country to face a nationwide freshwater shortage by twenty twenty-five. This places Egypt in a vulnerable position by making it more likely to face water scarcity, droughts, rising sea levels, and other adverse impacts of climate change. Licht und Wissen is more than glad to provide humanity solutions and proposals that improve our quality of living.
As most of us study in fields like science, engineering, and scientific research, we use scientific and creative techniques in our solutions.
Chlorophyll is a crucial pigment in the process of photosynthesis as it absorbs sunlight. There are five main types of chlorophyll present: chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, chlorophyll c, chlorophyll d, and chlorophyll e.
What distinguishes these types from each other are the wavelengths of light that they absorb.
Scientists have recently discovered a rare type of chlorophyll that absorbs more near-infrared light than is typical for the photosynthetic pigments.
This chlorophyll is known as chlorophyll f. Chlorophyll f absorbs infrared rays. Scientists have extracted it from cultures of cyanobacteria and other oxygenic microorganisms. They have also found that it belongs in a formyl group. We can imitate the pigment’s chemical composition, C55H70MgN4O6, and start using it in panels and devices so it absorbs the infrared rays that are heating up our planet.
Hence the thought that we can put pickup dishes on the surface of the earth. These dishes emit waves of a specific wavelength, and we control this wavelength so that It is the same wavelength and frequency as the Infrared rays trapped inside the earth's surface. When these rays come from the surface of the earth, they meet the other infrared rays in the dish. And when these two opposite waves collide In the same direction and have the same frequency and wavelength, they vanish each other or they may produce another wave, but it is much less In terms of energy, and thus we reduce the Infrared rays responsible for global warming.
Also an update on the proposed solutions. We suggest that a scientist or engineer design a machine that separates greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapor and chlorofluorocarbons. This machine separates these gases from each other and then deals with each gas separately. For example, we add hydrogen gas and do the process of electrolysis to turn carbon dioxide Into fuel for cars
For example, methane gas, we use a certain type of clay for it called zeolite clay, so the methane turns Into carbon dioxide, and then the previous process, because the harmful effects of methane are many times greater than those caused by carbon dioxide, so that one ton of methane is equivalent to 80 tons of carbon dioxide.
For nitrous oxide gas, we do the process of selective non-catalytic reduction and inject ammonia or urea Into the combustion furnaces and mix It with hot flue gases to react ammonia with nitrogen oxide gases to produce water and nitrogen
Space Agency Data
In this project, we were glad to use a variety of resources such as NASA, obviously, and the European space agency and the Australian space agency. We made sure to use accurate data in our research by referring to these resources and using the data from these agencies. These agencies also inspired our research by providing factual evidence and information for us to apply in our project. We felt confident in every word we typed and every piece of information we discovered.
Hackathon Journey
Well it was a really great trip because we made new friends and acquired skills or developed our own
References
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/what-is-climate-change#:~:text=Climate%20change%20refers%20to%20long,like%20coal%2C%20oil%20and%20gas
https://climate.nasa.gov/global-warming-vs-climate-change/#:~:text=Global%20warming%20is%20the%20long,the%20term%20%22climate%20change.%22
https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/what-are-greenhouse-gases#:~:text=Greenhouse%20gases%20(also%20known%20as,greenhouse%20gases%20in%20the%20atmosphere
https://climate.ec.europa.eu/climate-change/causes-climate-change_en
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-mountain-glaciers#:~:text=In%20State%20of%20the%20Climate,889%20millimeters%20(2.9%20feet)%20per
https://www.wired.com/2010/08/infrared-chlorophyl/
https://qz.com/1709757/climate-change-threatens-the-niles-critical-water-supply/#:~:text=Previous%20research%20has%20suggested%20that,by%20as%20much%20as%2025%25
https://egyptindependent.com/climate-change-impacts-egyptian-food-security-agriculture-minister/#:~:text=Climate%20change%20poses%20a%20serious,Land%20Reclamation%20Minister%20Ezzedine%20Abu
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#infra_red #green_house_gases