Written and performed by the Sandy Lego Fiddlebots

Ian Schroeder and Lynda Morris, vocals

Brannon Smudz, keyboard

Nadya and Brennan Dooley, violin

Ciara Dooley, cello

Drawings by Brennan Dooley.

Slideshow Layout by Ciara and Nadya Dooley.

Fossil fuel is organic remains of long agocovered with mud and rock it makes oil, gas, and coal.

Burning these fossil fuels for our electricitymakes more greenhouse gases a reality.

Greenhouse gases let sunlight come in. Greenhouse gases don’t let energy go out.

This creates the global warming talked about in our reportingalso known as the greenhouse effect.

The gases that make up the greenhouse gascome from water vapor, C-O-2, and grass "from cows as methane!"

Coming in they are transparent to sunlight that's in the air butthey absorb the radiant heat from the earth.

The response is warmer winds and rising seasThe poles and icy mountains will unfreeze.

Life is rearrangin' and our planet is a changin', Soon LaJolla will be drownin', o-oh please! oh no!

The water’s getting warmer all the timeOcean levels getting higher - it’s a crime!

Coral’s dying all around us, toxic algae will confound us,and erosion will be causing us to climb.

The ice caps are melting at unchecked ratesCausing animals and such to meet their fates.

The penguins must hunt harder, for the krill are getting smaller,Floods and hurricanes are frequent as of late.

Heat from fossil fuels turns water into steam Steam turns turbines for power, so it seems.

When fossil fuels are gone where will we get our steam? Find a solution or life may go downstream.

We must use resources that are renewableInstead of depending on fossil fuel.

Solar, wind and hydro power can all be used again.There is also energy from the ocean.

Unlike the energy from wind and sunWe can predict when the ocean will run.

Wave, tidal, thermocline, current and gradient of salinityare five ways to get energy from the sea.

Wave energy generates electricityBy the up-and-down motion of the sea.

In Isle of Islay, Scotland they use wave energy,to make 5 mega-watts commercially.

With tidal power the tide goes up and then declinesinto a system of water turbines.

France and Nova Scotia are two locationswith commercial-sized plants in operation.

Take the surface and the deep water temperaturesIf the difference 25 degrees Celsius measures

This is thermocline energy used in Japan and Hawaii.Small scale designs are producing electricity.

Swift currents moving close to the shoreare a way to make energy forevermore.

Using salt water and freshwater's different densityis power from gradient of salinity.

Wader holds a patent on a method

of generating energy through a process involving the mixing of salt and fresh water.

This device is called the Hydrocratic

Generator.

We have designed an offshore platform for the task.Although building it will be a lot to ask.

Diagram A Entire platform (top)

Design for an offshore power generator/ocean research platform, Aquatic Solutions to Air Pollution, known by its acronym, ASAP.

Dock

Buildings

It uses current and wave energy and also gradient of salinity,to harvest lots of power from the sea.

Diagram A Entire platform (bottom)

Diagram B Current turbine

Diagram C Wave Energy Generator

Diagram DSalinity gradient generator

Diagram F batteries and storage tank

Probe bay

The salinity gradient generators are in a ring. They also filter minerals and harmful things

Diagram A Entire platform (side)

Diagram B Current turbine

Diagram C Wave Energy Generator

Diagram DSalinity gradient generator

Diagram E

tide sensor

Lots of pistons on the sea floor, lots of turbines on the platform bottom from fossil fuels will give us freedom.

Diagram C Wave generator

Diagram B Current turbine

ASAP!