The Horse 2020/21

Environment & Technology

Task 17: The unit kWh

In my task I would like to calculate the electricity consumption. I always find it interesting what you can calculate from the electricity. First I want to enter in the power consumption calculator the number of watts, in my case it is 5. Then I enter in the calculator the number of hours, which was then 2. At the end, I can calculate this using my formula (see above) and come to a result of 0.33 kWh. You can calculate the result either with a formula or with the electricity calculator. The solution should be the same. 

Power (watts) x time (hours) = energy consumption in watt-hours (Wh), this divided by 1000 = consumption in kilowatt-hours (kWh)

What was also exciting to break out the electricity consumption in the year. What did I calculate?

Living space in sqm * 9 kWh + 4 people in the household * 400 kWh + 15 electrical appliances in the household *400 = kWh in the year.

 

 

Task 7: WWTP Winterthur

Which WWTP (Waste Water Treatment Plant = Kläranlage) is cleaning my personal waste water? 

Stadtwerk Winterthur

What is it dimension?

The Winterthur wastewater treatment plant  reaches more than 120,000 people in Winterthur and also in other villages of Winterthur, like Turbenthal, wich belongs to Winterthur. 

Where is it located? 

Stadtwerk Winterthur is located at the Schöntalstrasse 12, 8406 in Winterthur

map.search.ch/Stadtwerk-Winterthur

How does it look like? 

 

Glacier melt- Goals update

>24 June 2021

What we reached:

- Project bubble- Genti and Tiziano

- Artikel about Glacier (Genti) 

24 June 2021

Our next steps:

- Publish our project on the website "don't waste my energy"

- Clarify the "expence report"

- Contact the camera team for receiving videos of our trip on the "Aletschgletscher"

Genti and Tiziano

[in progress]

Glacier melt - Collaboration update

With team Basque we are in contact via e-mail. We wrote each other for the first time in March 2021. We try to help each other, but we don't have so many points to share. We now try to talk about a survey, that they could create.

We are in contact by WhatsApp with team Kerala. We started to coperate in April 2021. Then we did a video conference via "Google" on 22nd April, 2021. In the next days, we will have another video conference to talk about their interview with some professors of India the progress of the surveys of both teams. The surveys should then be posted here on "The horse".

Genti and Tiziano

[in progress]

Glacier melt - Interview with Swiss Climate Protection Association

This online interview was taken the 19th May 2021 with Marcel Hänggi, scientific Assistant

- How can we as human beings actually save our glaciers? What countermeasures do we have?

We have to stop global warming and to do this we have to stop the emission of greenhouse gases. However: glaciers react with a delay. If it didn't get any warmer from now on, the glacier melt would still continue for More...