"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Escaping the Illusion's Web: Why you're trapped in your current life and how to change it
Why you're trapped in your current life and how to change it If a genie suddenly popped out of a bottle and offered to answer to any question that has been troubling you, what would you ask? That was pretty much the situation posed to thousands of ...
Taking Care of your Cell Phone Batterie
Picking a new cell phone model and pricing plan is more confusing now then ever with all the different offers available to you! Having a dependable cell phone battery is crucial so your family, friends and business associates can reach you. After all ...
Weather Working with Clouds
Working with clouds is a great way to start developing your weather working and psychic abilities. Here's a simple way to work with them: 1. Choose a day that has scattered, puffy clouds for this exercise. Get into a comfortable position (either sitting ...
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Solar energy directly from the source? Clean, non-polluting, nearly limitless, and renewable energy - sound too good to be true?
In the coming decades, this pipedream may just become a reality.
solar panels on Earth are a clean and moderately efficient means of collecting solar power. But atmospheric turbulence, combined with localized weather and climatic factors, make earth-based solar powers only efficent to a degree. A space-based solar station would function at optimal capacity nearly all of the time, and would simply have to beam the energy to earth via radio waves to harvest clean, renewable energy at efficiency ratings previously unheard of.
Several challenges must first be addressed, however.
First, it's appearant that the cost of launching and assembling the materials in space is going to be an issue for the profitability for the company that undertakes this momentous task. Advances in
launch technology combined with the impending privitization of the space-faring industry should reduce launch costs per kilogram by as much as a factor of 5 in the coming century, and a large-scale solar power plant in space could become a reality.
The second major consideration is the cost of assembling such a structure in space, but this can be addressed by advancements in robotics and teleoperation, which could make a the large-scale construction of a kilometer-sized object in space a much more economically feasible undertaking.
Time will tell if such a project ever gets off the ground, but we can only hope that as our oil resources dwindle and technology advances, this option will become more affordable and the world can benefit from a clean, steady stream of energy directly from the sun.
About the Author
David Saharkhiz is a contributor to various website publications related to solar panels.
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The nations weatherNewsdayNation Newsday > News > Nation The nations weather Published: February 8, 2012 4:59 AM By The Associated Press WEATHER UNDERGROUND (For The Associated Press) Weather Underground Forecast for Wednesday, February 08, 2012. A strong ridge of high pressure ...The nation's weatherWashington Postall 43 news articles » |
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