Technology Depleting Resources and Pollution

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Technology Depleting Resources and Pollution

Answer to these questions:

1. When does most of the environmental impact of technology take place?
2. What takes more enrgy, creating a computer or using it? Give a reason?
3. List the amount of resources required to build a single computer
4. Why does Santa_Clara County have more EPA-identified toxic waste sites, called Superfund sites, than anywhere else in the USA.?
5. What is Technotrash?
6. What happens to american Technotrash? Who proccesses it?

Technologies timeline

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http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/12-technology-timeline.htm
Answer these questions:

• When did they invent the first known calculator?
• Where did they invent the suspension bridges?
• Who invented the microscope? When?
• Vaccunation was a breaktrouh in medicine. When was it invented? Who did it?
• When was electric motor invented?
• In which two centuries have more inventions happened?