I interviewed Mr Evans,who was my STEM mentor last year for research on renewable energy, for my signature project. Mr Evans is 66 years old and is currently a physics and chemistry teacher in Emma Willard School. He was born in New York and majored in astronomy and physics in college. He taught physics in two different schools in Vermont before he came to Emma Willard.
He definitely thinks that the rapidly developing renewable energy is a good replacement for fossil fuels. "With the temperature of earth increasing, the more we can switch into types of energy source that does not produce green house gas, the better for the environment and society." He also thinks that the main drawback of solar energy is its dependence on location, weather patterns and seasonal angles of the sunlight. Solar energy would be difficult to harness in location where they doesn’t get much sunlight, or especially during winter. The obvious advantages of solar energy for him is that there is no pollution or emission of green house gas as well as being renewable and sustainable. He thinks that the main environmental problem the earth would face 100years from now on would probably be climate change. There would be a lot of areas underwater, resulting in large migration of people to other locations. Mass movement of people would also lead to stress on new locations with overflowing people. They would all need housing, food and too many people in certain locations would definitely give a rise to new environmental problems. This was a chance for me to think more about the current and future environmental problems of earth and the resolution solar energy could offer.
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