Blue Economy isn‘t only about the water
pollution, but includes the air too. This subject has much bigger meaning. It’s
affects a lot of sectors, but we decided to go for carbon sequestration and
most importantly how to remove it. We thought that it will be great
opportunity to show our idea, because we want to help the Earth and most
importantly we want to help us – all living organisms.
We decided to create a product that helps the
environment and that is good for the development of the Earth. We created a
website which can provides information by statistics created by NodeMCU which
could help you to track your bought tree.
We hope that our project is going to make a
great impact of the future plans about quicker afforestration and
reforestation. We think that people now have a more intense life who love in
hurry and sometimes there‘s no time for our relatives and friends, and what is
happening with the plants that cannot say they need water. We should help each
other, but not only a human to a human – an organism to an organism.
We chose this theme, because we think that not much is said on this topic as not a lot of people really care about the oceans. I am Hristo Hristov and made this website to grow awareness in the people that think ocean and overall water pollution is not that big of a problem. For the realisation of my website I used Visual Studio Code and images from Google. W3schools was the website where I got the necessary information and the lines of code to make my website what it is now.
The main problems that I got into in the process of making Overwater were the low quality images, positioning and structure of the website and some of the animations. Some of the paragraphs, images or videos did not go where I want and that made it hard for me to continue developing my project. I did not have the knowledge to build a well-structured, good looking and impressive page but I think that it turned out well.
Every page starts with a fresh looking menu. I used a water image for the background of the navigation bar . In the very start there is the logo which is the symbol of the “O“ in the word “Overwater“. The nav bar has 4 tabs and the first one of them is the “Home“,2nd – Mission,3rd– About and the forth one is the “Contact Us“ tab. When you press on the “Home“ tab you go to the main part of the website.
The main team goal is to make small, but multifunctional weaher station, that can measure barometric presure, air temperature and humidity, wind direction and speed and rainfall. It will serve to make the weather forecast for the coming days. In agriculture, it is very important when it rains, how long it rains and what is the amount of rainfall.
As we all have heard, the oceans are the biggest resource, which the humanity have. We have explored only 10% of our oceans and seas, whereas they are 71% of the world’s surface. The idea of our team is to show one side of the whole potential of the oceans and seas, namely electricity production. Ocean energy technologies are currently being developed to exploit the potential of tides and waves. Wave and tidal energy are currently the most mature technologies. Why is it necessary for every country with an ocean outlet (high tides) to invest in the construction of such power stations? Because tidal energy is an inexhaustible resource for electricity generation and does not pollute the environment as no harmful substances are emitted. The amount of electricity produced by this type of power station can be determined much more accurately than other power stations operating with inexhaustible sources (wind, sun, etc.). At 250MW of tidal power, more than 860,000 barrels of oil can be saved per year. Yet, despite all the advantages, they also have some disadvantages. For example, building such a facility requires serious financial investment. The dam wall, on the other hand, is an obstacle to the movement of sediments carried by the water, which leads to their accumulation. Salinity also changes, which also affects ecosystems. Because the tides in our country are too small to build such power stations, our country can begin to make use of the hydropower potential of rivers. Rivers are renewable sources that, in addition to water, are used in energy production. They are part of the oceans and are an important natural resource. The water resources in our country are limited and unevenly distributed, which necessitates the construction of hydroelectric power stations (HPSs). They cause less environmental problems than other power stations, but just like tidal power stations require large financial investments. The share of electricity produced from hydropower stations is low. Electricity produced from renewable sources is only 22% of the energy produced in our country.
