SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY. An article by Joseph Romm on Salon.com says “the solar energy you haven’t heard of is the one best suited to generate clean electricity for generations to come.” Eureka! That’s the kind of positive report most of us would like to hear more often. The article, “The technology that […]
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Sunlight and mirrors - voila! electricity!!
Published April 16th, 2008 in Invention, Change, Climate, Technology, Future, Science, Solar Energy, Electricity, Cleanup, Ecosystems, Innovation, Energy, Earth, Global Warning, Ideas, Greenhouse Gases, Environment and Sustainability. 0 CommentsThe worldwide telescope coming in march
Published February 29th, 2008 in WorldWide Telescope, Software, Stargazing, Virtual Observatory, Invention, Science, Education, Images, Photographs, Natural phenomena, Astronomy, Space, Time and Space, Ideas, Visual Imagery, Trends and Innovation. 0 Comments***”We may be tiny, but we are truly, wonderfully significant”***
Roy Gould, researcher at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, gave a presentation on TED TALKS announcing the arrival this spring of the WorldWide Telescope (WWT), sometimes called the Virtual Observatory, a new software capability created by Microsoft that takes the best raw images from […]
Eclipse excitement building for february 20
Published February 13th, 2008 in Visual Imagery, Celestial event, Images, Stargazing, Science, Lunar eclipse, Eclipses, Earth, Space, Astronomy, Natural phenomena and Moon. 0 CommentsA great buzz is going around about the upcoming total lunar eclipse that will occur on February 20th, and just in case you can’t find news about it absolutely everywhere else as well as on this site, I thought I would add a little more to the excitement. We haven’t had a total lunar […]