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From the Ted Talk by John Hardy: My green school dream
Unscramble the Blue Letters
We're on the grid. We're not proud of it. But an amazing alternative energy company in Paris is taking us off the grid with solar. And this thing is the second veotrx to be built in the wolrd, in a two-and-a-half meter drop on a river. When the tbrniue drops in, it will produce 8,000 watts of electricity, day and night. And you know what these are. There's nowhere to flush. And as long as we're taking our waste and mixing it with a huge amount of water — you're all really smart, just do the math. How many people times how much water. There isn't enough waetr. These are compost ttelios, and nobody at the school wanted to know about them, especially the principal. And they work. pleope use them. People are okay. It's something you should think about doing. Not many things didn't work. The beautiful canvas and rubber skylights got eaten by the sun in six months. We had to rclepae them with recyclable plastic. The tearhces dragged giant PVC wroedaitbhs into the classrooms. So we had some good ideas: we took old automobile windshields, put paper behind them and created the first alternative to the whiteboard.
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We're on the grid. We're not proud of it. But an amazing alternative energy company in Paris is taking us off the grid with solar. And this thing is the second ______ to be built in the _____, in a two-and-a-half meter drop on a river. When the _______ drops in, it will produce 8,000 watts of electricity, day and night. And you know what these are. There's nowhere to flush. And as long as we're taking our waste and mixing it with a huge amount of water — you're all really smart, just do the math. How many people times how much water. There isn't enough _____. These are compost _______, and nobody at the school wanted to know about them, especially the principal. And they work. ______ use them. People are okay. It's something you should think about doing. Not many things didn't work. The beautiful canvas and rubber skylights got eaten by the sun in six months. We had to _______ them with recyclable plastic. The ________ dragged giant PVC ___________ into the classrooms. So we had some good ideas: we took old automobile windshields, put paper behind them and created the first alternative to the whiteboard.
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- people
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- whiteboards
- teachers
- replace
- toilets
- world
- vortex
Original Text
We're on the grid. We're not proud of it. But an amazing alternative energy company in Paris is taking us off the grid with solar. And this thing is the second vortex to be built in the world, in a two-and-a-half meter drop on a river. When the turbine drops in, it will produce 8,000 watts of electricity, day and night. And you know what these are. There's nowhere to flush. And as long as we're taking our waste and mixing it with a huge amount of water — you're all really smart, just do the math. How many people times how much water. There isn't enough water. These are compost toilets, and nobody at the school wanted to know about them, especially the principal. And they work. People use them. People are okay. It's something you should think about doing. Not many things didn't work. The beautiful canvas and rubber skylights got eaten by the sun in six months. We had to replace them with recyclable plastic. The teachers dragged giant PVC whiteboards into the classrooms. So we had some good ideas: we took old automobile windshields, put paper behind them and created the first alternative to the whiteboard.
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