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toyotas solar tower project. certainly a different take on solar tower technology.
hinode spacecraft captures total solar eclipse.
annular solar eclipse at high resolution
a new sort of concept in solar energy. possible greenhouse/power plant combination?
this is nano-solar, a company located in palo alto, cali(and a plant in germany). they have revolutionized the making of solar technology. nanosolar is on track to make solar electricity: i. cost-efficient for ubiquitous deployment. ii. mass-produced on a global scale. iii. available in many versatile forms. more info at nanosolar.com.
in a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, mit researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn`t shine.
tokyo (reuters) - ladies, take your battle for the environment a little closer to your heart with a solar-powered bra that can generate enough electric energy to charge a mobile phone or an ipod. lingerie maker triumph international japan ltd unveiled its environmentally friendly, and green colored, "solar power bra" on wednesday in tokyo which features a solar panel worn around the stomach. the panel requires light to generate electricity and the concept bra will not be in stores anytime soon, said triumph spokeswoman yoshiko masuda, as "people usually can not go outside without wearing clothes over it." but it does send the message of how lingerie could possibly save the planet, masuda said, adding that the bra should not be washed or sunned on a rainy day to avoid damaging it. being eco-friendly is now fashionable in japan, and the "solar energy bra" follows the company's other green-themed undergarments that include a bra that turns into a reusable shopping bag and one that featured metal chopsticks to promote the use of reusable chopsticks. "it is very comfortable and i can really feel involved in eco-friendly efforts as well," model yuko ishida said. source
a company called nanosolar invented a new way to create solar energy collectors. this video was posted earlier by "i eat sand" but cut out 1/2 way through.
clip from james may's big ideas where bunch of hippies burn and melt stuff with their 'solar furnace', oh and it has something to do with making petrol out of thin air.
solar eclipse, aug. 11, 1999, seen from the mir space station. an eclipse appears total only while you're directly in the moon's shadow. normally the darkness lasts only a few minutes … but in 1973 a concorde supersonic jet managed to stay in the shade for 74 minutes.
explanation: parts of saturday's (march 3) lunar eclipse will be widely visible. for example, skywatchers in europe, africa, and western asia will be able to see the entire spectacle of the moon gliding through earth's shadow, but in eastern north america the moon will rise already in its total eclipse phase. of course if you traveled to the moon's near side, you could see the same event as a solar eclipse, with the disk of our fair planet earth completely blocking out the sun. for a moon-based observer's view, graphic artist hana gartstein (haifa, israel) offers this composite illustration. in the cropped version of her picture, an apollo 17 image of earth is surrounded with a red-tinted haze as sunlight streams through the planet's dusty atmosphere. earth's night side remains faintly visible, still illuminated by the dark, reddened moon, but the disk of the earth would appear almost four times the size of the sun's disk, so the faint corona surrounding the sun would be largely obscured. at the upper left, the sun itself is just disappearing behind the earth's limb.
nasa scientists were calibrating some cameras aboard the stereo-b spacecraft and they pointed the instruments at the sun.
i bet it's very hot.
i wonder just how many of these they sell each year.
great for an emergency kit or if the power is out.
interesting new technology to help reduce energy costs.
technological device that keeps abreast of other developments and shouldn't brass off people. i hope you find it titillating.
no, not naked women. based on the theory of the "big bang."
this hot!!
watch a sea slug eat algae to nab some of its chloroplasts, and then harvest the genes that keep chloroplasts functioning.
this is either an engineering marvel... or a trash bag.
we get a tour of a home that is powered by only solar energy and hydro-electric energy
today, there will be a total solar eclipse, visible from brazil, parts of africa, parts of europe and mongolia.
the total solar eclipse will last for about 4 minutes.
the eclipse will occur at 5 am est. those not able to travel to a place where the eclipse will be visible can still follow it, courtesy of nasa.
nasa live webcast from turkey
those unfortunate to miss this one will have to wait. on august 21, 2017 there will be another total eclipse, which will be visible in the us.
madrid, spain — a new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change. santa coloma de gramenet, a gritty, working-class town outside barcelona, has placed a sea of solar panels atop mausoleums at its cemetery, transforming a place of perpetual rest into one buzzing with renewable energy. flat, open and sun-drenched land is so scarce in santa coloma that the graveyard was just about the only viable spot to move ahead with its solar energy program. the power the 462 panels produces — equivalent to the yearly use by 60 homes — flows into the local energy grid for normal consumption and is one community's odd nod to the fight against global warming. "the best tribute we can pay to our ancestors, whatever your religion may be, is to generate clean energy for new generations. that is our leitmotif," said esteve serret, director conste-live energy, a spanish company that runs the cemetery in santa coloma and also works in renewable energy. in row after row of gleaming, blue-gray, the panels rest on mausoleums holding five layers of coffins, many of them marked with bouquets of fake flowers. the panels face almost due south, which is good for soaking up sunshine, and started working on wednesday — the culmination of a project that began three years ago. the concept emerged as a way to utilize an ideal stretch of land in a town that wants solar energy but is so densely built-up — santa coloma's population of 124,000 is crammed into four square kilometers (1.5 square miles) — it had virtually no place to generate it. at first, parking solar panels on coffins was a tough sell, said antoni fogue, a city council member who was a driving force behind the plan. "let's say we heard things like, 'they're crazy. who do they think they are? what a lack of respect!' "fogue said in a telephone interview. but town hall and cemetery officials waged a public-awareness campaign to explain the worthiness of the project, and the painstaking care with which it would be carried out. eventually it worked, fogue said. the panels were erected at a low angle so as to be as unobtrusive as possible. "there has not been any problem whatsoever because people who go to the cemetery see that nothing has changed," fogue said. "this installation is compatible with respect for the deceased and for the families of the deceased." the cemetery hold the remains of about 57,000 people and the solar panels cover less than 5 percent of the total surface area. they cost 720,000 euros ($900,000) to install and each year will keep about 62 tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, serret said. the community's leaders hope to erect more panels and triple the electricity output, fogue said. before this, the town had four other solar parks — atop buildings and such — but the cemetery is by far the biggest. he said he has heard of cemeteries elsewhere in spain with solar panels on the roofs of their office buildings, but not on above-ground graves. source
