Today, i read this article.

U.S. to Overtake Saudi Arabia, Russia as World's Top Energy Producer

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2012/11/121112-iea-us-saudi-oil/

 

REFLECTION

After I read this article, I became to be interested in energy and worry about world economy.

I thought if USA will become the top country of energy producer, USA will develop more and more, after then USA’s position as top of the world will become unassailable. Now, USA’s economic is very big for the world as you can know from Worldwide Financial Crisis or Lehman Crisis. So, I thought that USA will become the top country of energy producer by those energy industries, but this may prove a great serious because if USA’s energy industries happened such as happening of nuclear power plant of 3.11, USA’s economy will be broken like domino effect from energy industries, next this depression will spread out all over the world.

In conclusion, I thought it is bad that USA will become the top country of energy producer. So I thought industries have to be dispersed.

 

WORDS

renaissance(n): the period of time in Europe bitween 4th and 17th centuries.

 fulfillment(n): the feeling of being happy and satisfied with your life by your interst, usefle, or important things.

unconventional(adj):very different from the way people usually behave, think, dress, etc...

 forefront(n): to be in a leading position in an important activity

 efficiency(n): quality of doing smething well and effectively, without wasting time, money, or energy.

Light From First Star

Today I read this article on NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.
"Light From First Star Detected in Cosmic ""Fog"""
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/11/121101-gamma-ray-fog-first-stars-universe-science-space/


REFLECTION

This article is very attracted article for me! I think, this is a great discovery of a human being!

First, this discovery made that scientists could the figure of the first universe. This mean is that we can know how state about 13billions years ago. The light that was observed this time was about 0.5billions years later from universe was born. So, this time light is almost first figure of first universe. And then, some scientists have already study about first universe.

Second, I think that we can know why this universe was born. If this reason is known about this, we can know about universe more. And possibly, we will become that we can go out to outside the universe by to know about this. Because, I think we can know how to close, we can open the gate as the door of complex vault. But in fact, a famous cosmologist said that to go out to outside of this universe is very easy.

In concluding, this discovery is very big one step to know about universe. But also, universe has many mystery that we cannot discover.

NEW WORDSdetect(verb): to notice or discover something that is not easy to see, hear, ect...
flicker(verb): to burn or shine with an unsteady light that gose on and off quickly.
collide(verb): to hit something
concerted effort: be done by people together
evidence(noun): facts or signs that show clealy that something exists or true

Why New York City Is the Worst Place for a Hurricane

　  Today I read this article on NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.

“Why New York City Is the Worst Place for a Hurricane”

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/11/121101-new-york-city-sandy-hurricane-bight-science-environment-nation/

    REFLECTION

I heard that NY will be damaged by Hurricane Sandy. But I couldn’t imagine that NY’s damage is so this bad. Before I read this, I didn’t know that NY’s a lot of facilities were such old as that. As the article said, about 5 hundreds million tons water came to NY by 160km/h. However, this hurricane’s level was Category-one, so this means very weak. But some NY’s landforms were not convenient. These bad landforms were put together, and it happened this damages. I think, there are some reasons which should be covered before about this damage, and especially, people should pay attention to these two points.

First, the sea around NY is shallows. If sea is shallow, the wave becomes high like tsunami on 3.11 Sendai. This theory has been known from the old days.

Second, vital facilities were located along the coast of NY. There were many vital facilities like a hospitals, wastewater treatments, and Wall Street. If someone supposed that high waves came, who couldn’t place these facilities. However, reasons of almost cities’ damages by the natural disaster are to be careless such as this.

I think, old people should remove the vital facilities to anywhere when someone knew that around the NY is shallow, but if who did it, possibly more terrible disaster  will come to there.

5NEW WORDS

landform(noun) : the shape of an area of land

facility(noun) : rooms, equipment, or services that are provided for a particular purpous

shallow(adjective) :measuring only a short distance from the top to the bottom.

vital(adjective) :extremely important and necessary for something to succeed or exist

wastewater treatment(noun) :a facility to clean sewage