Did you know that many scientists would like to discover light-catching substances in order to transform more of the sun’s energy into carbon-free electric power? A new study announced in the magazine Applied Physics Letters in August 2010 (published by the American Institute of Physics), explains how solar power could potentially be collected by using [...]
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Japanese Corporation Aims to Build a Solar Ring on the Moon
The world’s energy needs are coming to a crisis point but technology could solve this in a Japanese plan to put solar cells around the moon’s equator. That’s 11,000 km of solar cells twinkling on the moon. The electricity from the solar cells would be converted to microwaves and lasers would beam the power to [...]
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Solar Power Beamed To Earth From Space?
There are many renewable, green sources of energy one of them being solar power. This can be taken 1 step further by having the solar panels put into space. Obviously that requires a little more, OK a lot more effort than the words imply but would be worth it. There are benefits to outsourcing solar [...]
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Nuclear Fusion and Its Future Uses In Spacecraft
I was getting confused about fusion and fission the other day. Is there a difference? Yes, there is looking at fission it’s like the difference between chalk and cheese, one is nice and cuddly the other is prickly and unfriendly. Fission is the unfriendly one and is the one used in nuclear power stop. The [...]
