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Facts of Rome for "Drying up of Resources" Problems. The Roman Empire was starting to loose materials later and later in history but eventually there resources were being lost too. The most useful resource to Rome which as vanishing was the wood. The wood was used for a lot of things. For one, it was used for building the houses of most Romans. Also it was used for smelting and heat in a furnace. Why the wood ran out was because houses kept being replaced with more wood and they weren’t really using and other fuel for burning. (Except for charcoal occasionally) Another really abundant resource was now being last picked out. This was the gold and silver mines of Rome. The mines were starting to dry up and with nothing precious left inside. Once Rome had reached major loss of resources they had no choice but to take down part of the arena for building supplies. People around Rome started hoarding materials that were about to be extinct which meant nothing could re-grow or re-product itself for more. (If possible for item) Also the farming soil and nutrients were over worked and had lost there nutrition to grow more crops and grain. This lead to starvation. Last but not least the water supply was shortened. It was shortened because the lead pipes were carrying water through them which had cause lead poisoning, which meant that a small amount of water was still able to be drunken for people and animals.

Facts for Rome "Modern Day Dry Up of Resources" Solutions. The way America these days use oil is like no tomorrow. We attempt to change this by these ways. One way America is changing using oil is electricity. An example would be like in a car. The new cars are starting to have a certain new way of fuel. You can plug your car into an outlet and charge it. By this you get further in mileage without filling up for gas. Also it saves more oil consumption. One of the most used re-new able energy source we use is wind turbines. These turbines are pushed by air which causes a copper coil to spin and make energy. Most wind turbines are located in free space (away from population) and next to a shore line or lake. Why??? The waves of air coming from the water are pushing mass amounts of air from the water onto the shore or coastline where these wind turbines are located. Another re-new able energy we use to help us in oil saving is the __solar panels__. This helps us because the sun usually is always hot in certain places and shining a lot more in these places as well. So this produces energy through thermal energy. How it works is that the solar panels get hot, they release heat which turns a copper coil. A huge example of these solar panels would be the Kennedy Space center in Florida. A very productive way to make energy is through water rapids. This is called hydroelectricity. How this works is that water goes through a shape like oil rig (which doesn’t have oil) and spins around. It keeps spinning around until it can find the exit out of the pump and keep traveling its ways on. This is like anything else for energy. While the water is going through the pump it is turning a turbine. Something in America that we are trying is to raise gas prices up. We do this because of the amount per barrel oil is but also we are trying to stop the amount of oil we use everyday. So eventually prices will be sky high so that we can’t buy it. But also because most likely we will be out of oil if prices are that high. Something America is also trying to do is stop coal burning. We need to stop because of the emissions from this but also if we keep up at this rate, we will have minimum coal left by 2015. That is why a lot of plants are dying out because of how we are stopping the feed of coal. One type of resource we are attempting to thrive on is the natural gas. This is a way that people “hopefully” will start to get their heat. This is an idea that is used today but most people can’t afford to switch too. Natural gas is a series of pipes that lead down to a very far and deep, hot layer of the earth. From there the heat from the depth rises up through the pipes and heats your houses. (Of course there is a switch to turn on and off) One last way we are trying to stop getting our energy is the way of nuclear energy. This is where there is a big dome and buildings around it. What happens is that they heat nuclear things such as uranium or radioactive things and cause explosions. This causes heat to turn a turbine which turns a copper coil. This is bad because after words we are left with a heap of radio active trash. So then we store it in barrels and plant it in a fenced area, underneath the ground. Another thing is that Americans are working on is to try making smaller cars compatible with more mileage per gallon on gas. A big example of this would be the smart car or the priest. One last thing that is what most people are taking part of is packing more things into one. Example of this would be like the commercials of Wal-Mart and how when items come cheaper it’s because of the “Roll Back.” Which they explained as…”Less gas, less transportation, more goods.” We are working to solve things like this by using things such as natural gas and solar panels. If we keep up with non- renew able resources we will never have any left incase something does go wrong and we need them again. Wind turbines conduct up to 2.7% of America’s electricity source. Solar panels will conduct up to 8.2% of the nation’s electricity use. Oil consumed in America is an average of 18,600,000 BBl.

Deforestation is a big problem in Rome and in the world today too. If we keep this pace of trees being cut down every year, we could loose rainforest in a 100 years! Most people use the wood for burning and for paper. So there for people do this forr money. Information that I have found through [|www.NationalGeographic.com] has told me that one way we try to improve on forsts being chopped down is clear -cutting. Clear-cutting is the process of which lumber jacks go and cut down specific trees. After the lumber jacks have found the tree and have cut it down they will plant two more trees by the place or around it for more wood to grow later. Unfortunately not everyone does this ecause nothing is free and the buisness has to pay for seeds, which means they loose a fraction of money later on.

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Questions I need to know from an expert...


 * How much oil is consumed in the American country daily?
 * What is the roughly amount of gallons of oil in a barrel?
 * What kind of idea do you have to stop deforestation?

Attempts for contacting... Bp oil info: did not reply My Dad: Gave me all of my modern day notes

Citation: Information from Dad.

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"Deforestation." . 2012, n.d. Web. 7 Feb 2012. .