Watts family

The first half of the last decade of the century proceeded as the previous decade i.e. regular hard farm work, children at school, women providing the warmth of a home. Zachariah was still winning in the fall fair for colts and geldings, shearing rams and of course the best fat sheep. Occasionally, he would get lucky with his Holstein bull, a ram or sow and come in first or second. His potatoes usually ran into competition but he sometimes would still win and lucked out once winning the Hubbard squash entry. The competition was becoming harder as there were by now lots of established farms and, with a growing community, many new ones. Perhaps the first difficulty of the new decade for the Watts was the birth and death, in the same day, of…

average cost for industrial wind turbines is estimated to be $149 per megawatt-hour. This figure accounts for $23 per hour in federal policies and subsidies paid for by taxpayers, the cost of $15-$27 to build new transmission to the wind turbines, and the mechanical capital costs of running the windmills themselves from $48 to $88. As well, the wind turbines require backup plants to compensate for times of less wind – which can add a cost from $2-$23 per megawatt hour. What is a megawatt? How…

data the temperature setting on the thermostat was set sixty-eight degrees. I have realized at the end of this project, this was not a energy conscious decision. Not only did I raise the temperature from sixty-eight degrees to seventy-two degrees. Coupled with the rise in temperature, utilizing peak times to raise and lower the temperature. The energy savings “are achieved by reducing or lowering the temperature in a residence during specific hours, such as unoccupied or night hours” (Carey,…

Pollutants are becoming more prevalent in the field of horticulture due to the mass production of harmful chemicals, and other toxic material that somehow find their way into the ground. With this in mind botanists are ever increasing their knowledge of how to combat against the ever looming threat of toxicity by using microbes. Microbes are living bacteria that are found naturally on pretty much everything you have ever touched. So using microbes instead of harmful pesticides, and fertilizers…

Imagine a world where everyone was the same. Wouldn’t that be uninteresting? Everyone would walk, talk, and dress the same. There would be NO creativity! Luckily every individual is unique and spontaneous in their own way. Like many others I have numerous talents, stories, hobbies, and dreams. On August 19, 2001 it was a rainy morning. On this magnificent day a princess was born and that is me Jade Rachul Cazeau. I was born in Crystal River, the gemstone of Florida’s nature coast. I am the…

to flesh. Near by is, the child of Aphrodite, Eros the god of love and human desire. The artist does well in not only creating a beautiful piece of art, but capturing Pygmalion's own desire and search for beauty. Moving into a more modern era we look at Keith Sonnier's and Simon Rodia works. Sonnier creates pieces that are meant to involve the viewers as well the surrounding environment. In his work Motodom he has fashioned neon colored lights to a building's outside lobby. He is trying to…

researchers to measure the sphere 's width to nanometer precision, while x-ray crystallography provides images of the crystal 's structure Currently there are only two of these super-spheres, shared by all the teams within the international collaboration, due to the difficulty and expense of manufacturing them: they each cost about $3.2 million and had to be hand-crafted by a master lens maker.”(NIST) Seeing how these kilograms are very expensive and difficult to make most governments have been…

Critical Review of the Personal Software Process Mihika Shah, Arizona State University Quality management is a very important part of software organizations, and it is imperative to produce good quality products. In order to do that, it is necessary for every individual involved in the team to do superior quality work. The Personal Software Process provides guidelines that would provide an engineer with a disciplined approach to solve problems, and complete products which are of high…

I am my 4-H club’s president. My club has 52 people in it with most of them being under the age of ten. Sometimes I regret running for president, but then at other times I feel it is a great leadership experience. The duties of a president are not only running the meetings and showing animals. It is about helping out the community, helping the younger members with their projects and teaching them how to be a better person and also teach them responsibility with taking care of their animals.…

societies. Manufacturing switched from people’s homes into factories, speeding up production time and increasing production rates. With factories coming in and becoming such a necessary part of society, a new problem arose; how will they be powered? The Industrial Revolution came up with an effective response, courtesy of Thomas Savery. The steam engine* started being used to pump out water from mines, and produce energy in factories. Now factories didn’t have to rely on water powered mills. The…