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Team 8: Sustainability of Technology and the Positives

Robert Sill Brian Roda Karl Tang Christopher Lynch

Design Your Life – Bobby Sill

• Personal – Religion influential but not be-all-

end-all

• Social Life – Multiple social groups, immediate

family of 5, dog

• Material Life – iPhone, iPad, laptop, video

game consoles

• Work – Busboy, Camp Counselor
• Recreation – Skiing, guitar, singing,

beatboxing, running

• Political – Liberal Republican

How Life is Getting Better

• Fossil Fuel Recycling

Plant Patents

– Breakdown of raw product (fossil fuel) into flue gas

• Common in

households

– Focus on conservation

• Reuse of water vapor

supply

– Absorption of reagent

• Relating to my life
• Conservation
• Commercialism

http://advanceseng.com/top- patents/fossil-fuel-fired- power-plant/

Design Your Life- Brian Roda

• Personal expectations: diligently keeping up with my academics, growing

deeper in my faith through the options offered at the university, and making a good impression on my peers.

• Social: Part of numerous clubs with many different types of people,

immediate family of 6, and many friends on my dorm floor

• Material Life: Smartphone, laptop, television.
• Work: Gap Outlet Store Employee for this past summer
• Some recreation things I partake in include soccer, tennis, golf, hiking,

skiing, and playing ultimate Frisbee.

• Weekly reader of the Wall Street Journal and a Republican

Positive Impact on Society: Hydraulic Fracturing

• A process used to extract oil from the ground and turn it

into useable energy

• Industry supports 1.7 million jobs

– Could rise to 3 million by 2020

• Generates $63 billion to federal and state governments

– Projected to rise to $113 billion by 2020

• Will enable the U.S. to produce as much oil as Saudi

Arabia by 2025 and become energy independent by 2030

• Relativity:

– Will make my home very efficient when I’m grown up

http://energyblog.nationalgeographic.com/ 2013/02/19/the-big-energy-question-how- has-fracking-changed-our-future/

The Life of Oskar Täng

• State of mind: Calm and dedicated
• Social life: The fencing team
• Material life: not much right now
• Occupation: Student athlete
• Recreation: a free day
• Political life: I’m very liberal

Fusion Fueled Engine

• Future Mars outposts or colonies may seem

more distant than ever with NASAs exploration plans in flux, but the rocket technology that could someday propel a human mission to the red planet in as little as 40 days may already exist.

• A company founded by former NASA astronaut

Franklin Chang-Diaz has been developing a new rocket engine that draws upon electric power and magnetic fields to channel superheated plasma

• ut the back.

Life of Chris Lynch

• I am an ambiverted type of person.
• Small family with an average size group of

friends.

• My material life would mostly include a car and

television

• Summer job at a transportation company but

have no current job.

• My avocations would be any type of sport pick-up

games.

• I am democratic, but never interested in politics.

Medical Benefits of Silver

• Researchers at Boston University studied the benefits of antibiotics and

silver.

• They recently discovered it’s possible to increase the antibiotics ability

by a substantial amount.

• By mixing silver and antibiotics, they created a way to kill bacteria that is

1,000 times more effective than antibiotics alone.

• People argue that silver has potentially toxic side effects, but scientist

disagree, saying small non-toxic amounts make the antibiotics thrive.

• This discovery is taking care of some medical problems faced by the

economy.

• It relates to my personal agenda because I would like to make

pharmaceuticals and this shows how much the industry can improve.

http://listverse.com/2013/07/12/10-recent- scientific-advances-that-signal-the-future/