Monday, February 02, 2009

Japan's Sharp Electronics Corporation promotes Gore's CO2 scam in US schools

Marketing Solar Panels to Fifth-Graders - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
Employees of the Sharp Electronics Corporation were at Joyce Kilmer Elementary School in Mahwah, N.J., recently to teach a lesson on climate change and renewable energy. The cartoon image of an ailing Earth — a thermometer sticking out of its mouth — was the opening slide in their presentation.

Climate change and energy are complex issues, so I was interested to observe how they would be distilled by the Japanese electronics giant — and one of the world’s largest makers of solar panels — to an audience of 10 and 11-year-olds. I recently sat in the back of a fifth-grade class and listened in.
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The renewable energy portion of the presentation mentions several technologies – including hydro, wind, and ocean power – but solar quickly becomes the focus. The students watched a short video about how solar panels work, and then tried a hands-on activity in which they discovered how much work is required to power a 60-watt light bulb with hand cranks, compared to using a small solar panel.
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The students, for their part, did seem to enjoy the class — though they were not without questions for the Sharp team: “If you used only solar power,” asked one student, “wouldn’t you not be able to use it at nighttime?

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