Team Sentience

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Z29V83f23BVqJHlKE5uEy2jZdBMPNq8HMYXCdMNDOEU/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nAGCScwceB1j_mg4pAlIPCpFa1AfaQzPhBt4xXEL_XM/edit?usp=sharing

Our Project:

• Nicolai Kardashev, an astrophysicist, proposed three levels of civilization based on their energy consumption and technology advancements. Our planet Earth's civilization is the only known civilization in the whole universe. It lies between 0-1 on Kardeshev Scale. If we keep on using the energy sources we are currently consuming like petroleum, coal, oil, it would take around 100-200 years to reach Type- I civilization and there are huge chances that the Earth's resources would get exhausted before we reach 1. That's why we are trying to find alternatives like renewable energy technologies to reach Type-I. One of the most abundant, safest, and cleanest ones is solar energy. In our project, we have carried out some calculations using NASA's and other government sites' datasets to prove that if we consume total solar potential, we can reach 1 on the Kardashev scale in few years.
• Using Solar energy as our primary energy source would solve other problems too such as the number of illnesses and deaths due to air pollution from fossil fuels, greenhouse gases emissions, and limited availability of fossil fuels.
• Also, the agriculture sector is one of those which produce greenhouse gases on a large scale. We have tried to depict the uses of solar energy in the agriculture and food industries to increase the consumption of solar energy as well as to decrease air pollution.

Tools Used:

1. Google Slides- for preparing a presentation
2. Google Colab- for writing codes and plotting data
3. Excel - for datasets
4. NASA's Giovanni - for data visualization of "Time Averaged Map of incoming Shortwave flux monthly"
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Coding Language Used:

Python

• Libraries: matplotlib, pandas, seaborn

• NASA's Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Mission - for information about the use of solar energy to power rockets.
• NASA's Science Mission Directorate Multimedia - for images related to Earth, Sun, Solar Energy, Satellites, etc.
• NASA's Giovanni - for data visualization of "Time Averaged Map of incoming Shortwave flux monthly"
• NASA's EOSDIS Calibrated Radiance and Solar Radiance Data - to extract information about solar irradiance
• U.S Energy Information Administration - for total solar energy power generation dataset
• Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, India - for India's solar energy potential data
• Statistical Review of World Energy, 2021 (bp.com) - for world's and India's total solar energy consumption dataset

Mahvash Fatima:

Taking up a challenge,specially in a team, is always a decision that helps us grow together , open up our minds to the undiscovered aspects of our universe. NASA SpaceApp challenge 2021 gave us the opportunity to experience this wonderful journey. It has been an exciting journey from the start till the end , collaborating with people from different domains i.e. CSE and Mechanical in our team helped us identify the different perspectives of our challenge.

All the challenges were equally interesting and would be fun to solve for sure. However for us, our challenge "Discovering Science connections " stood out from the rest of the challenges because it gave us the space to look beyond the limited domain.

To explore the undiscovered , to establish a connection between two totally different sciences and put it out in such a way that it would benefit the whole humankind.

Azeem Ur Rehman:

It’s been an extremely rewarding and joyful experience for our team due to the many learning opportunities that came our way in various forms where we had to force ourselves to see at the world with a fresher perspective and how it can be made better. The motivation behind choosing this challenge was the need to think critically and analytically in order to find hidden underlying connections from various fields and NASA’s missions. 

Our approach was very simple and clear which was to brainstorm and discuss ideas with each and then measuring their pros and cons to find the best possible solution for any arising problem which I believe has brought our team closer in many aspects and consequently allowed us all to work together in harmony and in a compassionate way.

Aleena Ariz:

Participating in NASA Space Apps Challenge is a remarkable journey for me as well as our team. Through our challenge "Discovering Science Connections" we got to learn about different science domains of NASA and came to know that NASA not only works on space missions but also on the missions related to natural events occurring on our planet Earth. Together our teammates worked to explore the data on NASA repositories and other government sites, to find meaningful connections between different sciences, and to plot and present data in insightful and interesting forms.

The advantage of working in a team is that if we face any setback individually or as a team, we can always discuss it together and find out a solution, and if we still feel stuck we can talk to our mentor, Tazeen ma'am.

In the end, if we can think of one person that we would like to forward our gratitude to, then it would be our Local Lead Dr. Tazeen Jamaal Siddiqui. She has been there all the time for us and provided us with clear vision every time our sight got blurry and the required morale to find solutions and keep going. It wouldn’t be possible without her. In the end, we are happy for the experience cause there are plenty of doors that were opened by this challenge for us as individuals. All in all, it was an amazing journey.

1. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/sep/index.html
2. https://mnre.gov.in/solar/current-status/
3. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804448-3.00003-7
4. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817012-0.00031-1
5. https://nise.res.in/wp-content/uploads/NISE-AR-2019-20-English.pdf
6. https://strelkamag.com/en/article/backcasting-kardashev-one
7. https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-stats-review-2021-global-insights.pdf
8. https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-stats-review-2021-india-insights.pdf
9. https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy 
10. https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/largest-solar-power-plants-india/

Datasets

1. https://www.eia.gov/international/data/world/total-energy/total-energy-consumption?pd=2&p=00000000000000000000000000000004&u=2&f=A&v=mapbubble&a=-&i=none&vo=value&&t=C&g=00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001&l=249-ruvvvvvfvtvnvv1vrvvvvfvvvvvvfvvvou20evvvvvvvvvvnvvvs0008&s=315532800000&e=1546300800000&ev=false
2. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules/collection-details?p=C1214599897-SCIOPS&pg[0][v]=f&pg[0][gsk]=-start_date&q=total%20energy%20consumption&ac=true
3. https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/#service=TmAvMp&starttime=2021-05-01T00:00:00Z&endtime=2021-08-31T23:59:59Z&data=M2TMNXRAD_5_12_4_SWGDN&dataKeyword=Solar%20energy
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Image links:

1. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasas-parker-solar-probe-sheds-new-light-on-the-sun
2. https://science.nasa.gov/toolkits/smd-multimedia

Code:

1. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1HqNHmZsZBvhSB7Z56WxCoBFGNY2qzO2g

#discoveringscienceconnections, #solarenergy, #earth, #sun, #aliens, #kardashevscale, #renewableenergy, #extraterrestial, #energy, #earthscience, #heliophysics, #energyconsumption

This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.