Welcome to our website! This is our interdisciplinary unit, with the goal of linking the idea of fossil fuels and "hidden fire" to a topic of our choice. We chose the internal combustion engine, and divided up the four subsections. Each group member did one, and their work is displayed in the top sitebar. A button link in each pages' header will bring you to the next person's research, and convey you smoothly through the site. Happy browsing, and we hope you'll leave some constructive comments for us in the comment sections near the top and bottom of each page. Start by clicking the button in the header that says "To "Are We Addicted?"", and begin floating through the research.
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Group #36 (Leo Bao, Brian Ma, Santiago Montano, and Matthew Wiest)
A description of Hidden Fire is right below this!
~ Happy reading,
Group #36 (Leo Bao, Brian Ma, Santiago Montano, and Matthew Wiest)
A description of Hidden Fire is right below this!
What is Hidden Fire?
Hidden fire is in everything in eye's sight. Though, quite obviously, nothing is blazing, it holds fire in it. Take a school-use journal, for example. Paper and cardboard are made from wood, which is taken from logs of trees grown by tree farms. Growing trees requires fire, as the machinery uses fossil fuels to run engines and workers eat food. The food is made in factories, which use power from burning fossil fuels. Fire again. The trees from the farm are cut down and transported to the plant, which takes machinery and workers using hidden fire. Then, the plant goes through the paper-making process, which involves electricity and heat, both of which are made by burning fuel. After the paper and cardboard are created, they're taken to another factory where the plastic, metal, paper, and cardboard are assembled into a notebook. The plastic and metal also went through their own manufacturing processes. The plastic is made from naphtha, which is distilled from oil in a temperature-powered distillation tower. That requires fire for heat. The oil itself was drilled by machinery and workers, which both need hidden fire. Then the plastic was shipped to the factory. The metal is made by another factory process, which includes melting the metal to shape it. Of course, that uses fire as well. At the assembly plant, the materials are all put together by machines and robots monitored by workers. They all use hidden fire. When assembly is finished, the notebooks are shipped to stores which takes fire in engines and drilling of oil. The stores are powered and maintained by electricity and workers among other things. They all have a connection to fire as well. So, taking everything into account, each school notebook is made by not a mean amount of fire, but lots of it. Hidden fire, which we can now describe, is the fire "hidden" in everything we see and use from food to computers to climate control. It's "hidden" in the manufacturing process, which is seriously underestimated. In summary, hidden fire is the fire hidden in all of our everyday products that went from material to product.
Hidden fire is in everything in eye's sight. Though, quite obviously, nothing is blazing, it holds fire in it. Take a school-use journal, for example. Paper and cardboard are made from wood, which is taken from logs of trees grown by tree farms. Growing trees requires fire, as the machinery uses fossil fuels to run engines and workers eat food. The food is made in factories, which use power from burning fossil fuels. Fire again. The trees from the farm are cut down and transported to the plant, which takes machinery and workers using hidden fire. Then, the plant goes through the paper-making process, which involves electricity and heat, both of which are made by burning fuel. After the paper and cardboard are created, they're taken to another factory where the plastic, metal, paper, and cardboard are assembled into a notebook. The plastic and metal also went through their own manufacturing processes. The plastic is made from naphtha, which is distilled from oil in a temperature-powered distillation tower. That requires fire for heat. The oil itself was drilled by machinery and workers, which both need hidden fire. Then the plastic was shipped to the factory. The metal is made by another factory process, which includes melting the metal to shape it. Of course, that uses fire as well. At the assembly plant, the materials are all put together by machines and robots monitored by workers. They all use hidden fire. When assembly is finished, the notebooks are shipped to stores which takes fire in engines and drilling of oil. The stores are powered and maintained by electricity and workers among other things. They all have a connection to fire as well. So, taking everything into account, each school notebook is made by not a mean amount of fire, but lots of it. Hidden fire, which we can now describe, is the fire "hidden" in everything we see and use from food to computers to climate control. It's "hidden" in the manufacturing process, which is seriously underestimated. In summary, hidden fire is the fire hidden in all of our everyday products that went from material to product.
Works Cited
Benson, Tom. "Four Stroke ICE." NASA. NASA, 12 June 2014. Web. 16 Dec. 2014. http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/engopt.html.
"Enviromental Impact of Cars." Impact of Cars on the Environment. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2014.
"Internal Combustion Engine." Princeton.edu. Princeton, n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2014. http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Internal_combustion_engine.html.
"Internal Combustion - HowStuffWorks." HowStuffWorks. How Stuff Works, n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2014. <http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine1.htm>.
"H2g2 - Atmospheric Pollution from the Internal Combustion Engine in the Urban Environment - Edited Entry." H2g2 - Atmospheric Pollution from the Internal Combustion Engine in the Urban Environment - Edited Entry. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2014.
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