Letter from the Oakland Tech Runners from Royal Oak, MI, USA

After our creative weekend with tuning the robot and finalizing research for consolidation we have received an interesting letter from the United States, Michigan.


Hello-

[The following is a letter to your team from the Oakland Tech Runners from Royal Oak, MI, USA. We are seeking teams with which to correspond for the research portion of the 2008 FLL Challenge. We were told to contact your team. We are researching the effects CO2 (carbon dioxide) has on our local climate. We are looking at using algae as a way to control the excess. CO2.]

Dear South African team,

We are the Oakland Tech Runners from Royal Oak, Michigan. Our team this year is Trent, Devan, and Sarah. My name is Trent and I’ve been with the team for five years. My brother is Devan and he’s been with us for 5 years and our third member is Sarah. She has been with us for two years.

If you know the answers, would you please answer the following questions? It would help us with our research presentation.

1. If the extra CO2 in the air is collected in South Africa, do you know how CO2 from power plants, cars, etc. is taken care of, or stored in your country. We know that Norway and some other countries are starting to put it under the sea. Is South Africa doing that?
2. Do you know if the average temperature is rising in South Africa? If you do, could you send us some temperature charts or figures so that we could put them into a chart. If you want information about the temperature here since 1930 we can send you that information. If you don’t have the figures, do you know of a web site where we could find them?
3. How is the extra CO2 in the air making life different in South Africa than it was before this problem started? Is the plant or animal life changing?
4. What is your country doing to control CO2 production? For example, do you have laws that limit how much CO2 cars can produce? Or how about power plants?

Thank you for your help. We look forward to hearing from you.

Trent
Oakland Tech Runners