Time-9days
Direction-North East
Latitude-25North-55North
Attempts-2
Helpful winds-Prevailing westerlies
Hurtful winds-Horse latitudes
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Voyage 2 Lima to Cape Town
direction- South then East
time- 15 days
attempts-2
helpful wind-prevailing westerlies at first
hurtful winds-prevailing westerlies then
Latitude-25North-55North
time- 15 days
attempts-2
helpful wind-prevailing westerlies at first
hurtful winds-prevailing westerlies then
Latitude-25North-55North
Voyage 1- San Francisco to Sydney
Latitude- 40North- 72South
Time-12days
Helpful winds- Trade winds
Hurtful winds-Trade winds
Direction- South West
Attempts-1
Time-12days
Helpful winds- Trade winds
Hurtful winds-Trade winds
Direction- South West
Attempts-1
Monday, November 17, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Acid Rain

Acid rain is rain or any other form of perticipation that is unusually acidic. It has harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals, and infastructure. Acid rain is mostly caused by human emissions of sulfur and nitrogen compounds which react in the atmosphere to produce acids. The issues are burning of coal ,pollution,rain, sleet, snow, fog, and dry particles carrying nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide. There are lots of consequences like damaged buildings , statues damanged lakes and ponds-plants, amphibians, fish and insects dyin. The solutions for all those problems may be burning less coal use low-sulfur coal and use scrubbers(remove most sulfur oxides in air).
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