Library was closed!

Today the library was closed!!!!! It was really sad. I think it's because the new wing of the library downtown is opening, which is a huge inconvenience to me. However, i have the newsweek so I have a paper source, technically. I am about to start working more on the paper tonight, although i have a lot of finals to study for.

progress

Today I went through my house and found a newsweek article and several very good online articles to help me start my paper. I wrote two pages about electric cars and ethanol fuel, and i believe the paper is going along very well. Tomorrow I will work more on it, and I will go to the library to get books to help write it. I am writing two paragraphs for each type of fuel, one paragraph with pros and one paragraph with cons.

physics+english?

We talked about alternative fuels today in physics, which i found really interesting obviously because I will write my paper about them. Mr. Napier was having a question day, and somehow we got on the subject of alternative fuels, which i gladly jumped into at certain points, although there were a lot of things that were said that I didn't know about, such as that on the subject of ethanol fuels, there is no clear data of its efficiency because the people doing the research are usually biased in some way. On the subject of Hydrogen fuel, we talked about how the biggest problem is that there would be a delay in pressing the gas pedal to when the car would actualy accelarate, because it needs to allow time to produce the hydrogen. However, this problem could be solved by using gasoline for the primary accelaration. Also, Hydrogen is highly flammable, and since it is a gas, if there is an over production of it, any small collision could, in mr Napier's words, level several blocks.

I found this interesting. I figured I would mark it as progress