Science with Rainy

                                          Hello, my name is Amy Rainy Willis. I know that I haven't written about the ocean in a while due to other assignments at the time. However today I am not going to be discussing the ocean's problems but what I would do (given the money) to fix them. As most of you know from my previous posts I am focusing on plastic pollution in the ocean. This is a huge problem that kills 100 million marine animals per year! So here's how I would fix it.                    As mentioned in one of my previous blog posts I am a huge fan of a new invention called the Interceptor. It is a 600-meter long floating tube designed to filter the water and collect any filtered trash. The first model was launched in September 2019 by a nonprofit Dutch company called The Ocean Cleanup. The reason why I love this so much is that this invention gives humans a chance to basically press rewind (to a small extent) and this could just be the start of emptying our ocean

                          Hello, my name is Amy Rainy Willis. Today I am going to be expressing my opinion on an ongoing energy production issue. Having "electricity access" in the words of the IEA is a household that is able to afford 4 lightbulb working for 5 hours a day 1 refrigerator a fan operating 6 hours per day, a mobile phone charger, and a TV operating for 4 hours a day. When all of this is added up in a year this "average family" uses 1,250 kWh per household including standard appliances. So in other words, if you use 1,250 kWh annually or more you are considered having "access" t o electricity.                          Right now an average American household has 4-5 people in it. This means that electricity access is "gained" when one person uses 280 kWh per year. Unfortunately, this interpretation is quite insufficient. For instance, World Bank data puts the average electricity use per person at nearly 13,000 kWh per year. So in othe