In this week the Enviro Avengers were visited by Michael (once again) and Ivana, we were also visited by Jonathan from comet who took some photos of us while we were doing our thing and figuring out how to collect water and use it to water our plants.
Before we started, Michael briefed us on what we were going to do. Basically we had to go into groups of three, then he would give us a sheet of paper and we would circle the barrel of water that we would go to and decide our group name. After we would go out and onto either the field near the bike track or the Wekas to find our barrels. We would then get out our sheets and start wondering about the questions on the sheet and start answering them.
The first question asked us to see how we could get water into our tank. Everyone had a variety of ideas that we could all use, until one group suggested that we put gutters onto the roofs of all the sheds and houses (including the large school building), we all thought that this was a great idea and decided to work on what buildings we could put it on.
The next question was how are we going to move the water over to the actual water tank in the garden. Now we are obviously going to use kinetic energy to move the water as that’s how water moves with kinetic energy.
The third and final question is now that you’ve actually moved the water into the water tank how are you going to transport that water into the plants? We then finally decided to use a time system that has a sensor, when the plant gets ‘thirsty’ it will water it with the sprinkler until it gets ‘full’.
This Afternoon we were deciding on what power we would use to get the water over to the plants and to power the sprinkler, we decided on these 3 power sources (also the power can’t be from the city power plant), wind power, pump power, solar power. Everyone picked their own teams and started to get our research started, one group focused on solar power, one group on pump power and one group on wind power. Though we still haven’t figured out which kind of natural power is the best, all the powers seem really good to use and we can just use all of them to be honest, so we don’t have to just choose one.
