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Wind, Molten Salt Storage Solar May Power Australia by 2020
Posted by admin in General Sciences on August 24, 2010
A report from Beyond Zero Emissions asserts that Australia’s energy needs can be fully met by renewable sources within 10 years with technologies that are already available, with 40% coming from wind generation, and 60% from large-scale Concentrating S…
Mars technology creates self-dusting solar panels
Posted by admin in General Sciences on August 23, 2010
Technology developed for space missions to Mars enables terrestrial solar panels to self-clean and stay dust free.www.bbc.co.uk
Solar-Powered Toothbrush Doesn’t Require Toothpaste
Posted by admin in General Sciences on August 21, 2010
Researchers have designed a toothbrush that cleans teeth by creating a solar-powered chemical reaction in the mouth, doing away with the need for toothpaste.www.physorg.com
DIY Homemade Solar Panel Project
Posted by admin in General Sciences on August 17, 2010
A homemade solar panel can supply power to your home appliances. By using the sun’s radiation, you can cut your monthly energy bill. Solar panels can be made in a modular fashion, and you can install a panel today and add to it in the future.findport…
Sun’s ‘quiet period’ explained
Posted by admin in General Sciences on August 14, 2010
Changes in the way that plasma circulates in the Sun may help explain the recent prolonged period of weak solar activity.www.bbc.co.uk
Turning Your Windows into Mini Power Plants
Posted by admin in General Sciences on August 10, 2010
Norwegian company EnSol AS has patented a ground breaking, a thin film solar cell technology which they seek to develop commercially by 2016. They are working to develop the revolutionary new type of solar cell material that could be coated as a thin f…
New and Improved Solar Pool Cleaner
Posted by admin in General Sciences on August 8, 2010
We have the robot vacuum cleaner, so why not a robotic pool cleaner? Solar Breeze, the world’s only fully autonomous – and solar powered – pool cleaner received an update recently on its already fascinating features. Created by Solar Pool Technol…
Single cell plants that sweat hydrocarbons, Ethanol & Diesel
Posted by admin in General Sciences on August 7, 2010
The organisms are single celled plants, live in panels similar to solar panels; these cells take in sunlight, CO2 and small amount of chemical nutrients and later sweat hydrocarbons i.e. Ethanol or Diesel. Photo-bioreactor is used to grow them with ne…
Solar Tsunami Revealed in New Photo
Posted by admin in General Sciences on August 7, 2010
An ultraviolet camera was able to capture the intergalactic display – which prompted incredible skies around the world this week – in all its glory.www.dailymail.co.uk
Popular DIY Wind & Solar Power Guides
Posted by admin in General Sciences on August 5, 2010
The average homeowner has plenty of bills to pay just to cover essential utilities, such as water and electricity. Added to this are the bills for home phone, Internet access, cell phone bills, and the list goes on. A person working at an average job w…
A Solar Salamander
Posted by admin in General Sciences on August 4, 2010
Photosynthetic algae have been found inside the cells of a vertebrate for the first time.
www.nature.com
Nasa scientists braced for ’solar tsunami’ to hit earth
Posted by admin in General Sciences on August 3, 2010
The earth could be hit by a wave of violent space weather as early as Tuesday
after a massive explosion of the sun, scientists have warned.www.telegraph.co.uk
Engineeres Develop Solar Cell Powered Both by Light and Heat
Posted by admin in General Sciences on August 2, 2010
Stanford engineers have figured out how to simultaneously use the light and heat of the sun to generate electricity in a way that could make solar power production more than twice as efficient as existing methods and potentially cheap enough to compete…
Engineers Develop Solar Cell Powered Both by Light and Heat
Posted by admin in General Sciences on August 2, 2010
Stanford engineers have figured out how to simultaneously use the light and heat of the sun to generate electricity in a way that could make solar power production more than twice as efficient as existing methods and potentially cheap enough to compete…
Silicon can be made to melt in reverse
Posted by admin in General Sciences on August 2, 2010
Like an ice cube on a warm day, most materials melt — that is, change from a solid to a liquid state — as they get warmer. But a few oddball materials do the reverse: They melt as they get cooler. Now a team of researchers at MIT has found that silic…
Earth as an Extrasolar Planet
Posted by admin in General Sciences on July 25, 2010
Astronomers successfully test a technique that could be used to find life beyond our solar system news.sciencemag.org
CO2 Could be Decreased To Pre-Industrial Levels in 10 Years
Posted by admin in General Sciences on July 25, 2010
A new solar-powered process could decrease carbon dioxide to pre-industrial levels in 10 yearswww.physorg.com
Unmanned Solar Plane Makes Record Breaking 14-Day Flight
Posted by admin in General Sciences on July 23, 2010
A week ago we wrote about the Zephyr “Eternal Aircraft”, an unmanned solar plane that had just broken many records by staying up in the air for 7 days. Well, the Zephyr has finally landed at the US Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona after 14 days an…
MIT Researchers Create Paper Solar Cells
Posted by admin in General Sciences on July 23, 2010
Still in its preliminary development stages, eco-friendly alternative energy sources have many limiting factors. www.solar-energy.co.uk
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