7 days. Pass it on.

A thrilling CPR investigation was presented to periods 2 and 3 today by Eric Hanamoto, Raymond Lin, Emily Liang, Stephanie Pascua, and Annie Yau. "A Breath of Biofuels," an informative horror video presentation, taught us about biofuels, which are any solid, liquid or gas fuels created from biomass. In their video, while hanging out in a classroom, a group of friends found a DVD about biofuels. But suddenly, some of the friends were murdered mysteriously. Later, it was discovered that if they didn't pass on the DVD after watching it to other people and spread the knowledge of biofuels, they would die in 7 days. Through the video and the explanations from the speakers in between, they taught us a lot about biofuels. Here's some of the things we learned.

• In July 2009, biofuels production was banned in CA because of safety reasons with the storage of pure biofuels. =/


• Ethanol may be an ALTERNATIVE FUEL, but it has its pros (safer, has same amount of CO2 emission as regular fuels) and cons (takes away corn supply, energy production is not efficient)


• Biofuels - made from oils and fats used for vehicles that run on diesel only; its the greener choice because it helps reduce air pollutants like carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and sulfur oxide.


• What's the future of biofuels? Much research is going on to see if biofuels really is a potential fuel alternative. Even though its production has tripled (4.8 billion gallons in 2000 to 16 billion gallons in 2007), today, it still accounts for less than 3% of the world's transportaion fuel supply.

This CPR video was one of the most interesting CPR presentations we've had this year. Many people agree that because the didactic film kept us students at the edge of our seats waiting to hear what would happen next, we became more interested in biolfuels. In addition, we learned more about potential sources of energy in the future that could be helpful to our environment, such as ethanol, biodiesel, and algae, which was the most interesting to me. Before, to me, algae was a plant that I learned about in Biology Honors last year. However, now, I know that algae can be another potential energy source because not only does it consume carbon dioxide as food, which would be a huge plus to our planet, its production and growth is also easier because it takes up less space. Overall, this was a fresh, funny, and suspenseful "breath of biofuels".