Tag: solar
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World’s Largest Fully-Operational Solar Plant Opens in Arizona
from inhabitat.com: Somewhere between Yuma and Phoenix, Arizona on a desolate stretch of 2,400 acres of land, construction was just completed on the world’s largest fully-operational solar-power plant. Known as Agua Caliente, the renewable energy plant can generate 290 megawatts at peak capacity – which is enough to power 230,000 homes and is comparable to…
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World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency
Credit: Fraunhofer ISE from phys.org: German Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin announced today that they have achieved a new world record for the conversion of sunlight into electricity using a new solar cell structure with four solar subcells. Surpassing competition after only over three years of research,…
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Order Of The Days = Freemason Solar Doctrine?
How did days of the week end up in their present order?
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The Solar Revolution
In Solar Revolution, world-renowned German biophysicist Dieter Broers makes a compelling case, pointing to a wealth of scientific evidence that shows a remarkable correlation between increases in solar activity and advances in our creative, mental, and spiritual abilities
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listening to the sun improves sunspot forecasts
from latimes: Sunspots, those dark regions on the surface of the sun whose high magnetic activity has ripple effects for Earthlings, seem to emerge and fade without warning. But now, by listening to the sounds the sun makes, scientists have managed to predict when a sunspot will appear up to two days beforehand. The findings,…
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3/31 defcon: morpheus, auroras, smartbombs & omg’s!
secret space plane can’t hide from amateur sleuths* secret x-37b space plane caught on video by skywatchers* nasa tracking ‘a large object approaching the sun’* video: will ‘morpheus’ be the first vehicle on the moon since apollo?* video: stunningly beautiful time-lapse footage of aurora* nsa said to focus its decrypting skills on nasdaq cyber attack*…
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aurora alert: year’s largest solar flare
The largest so far this year, a category M6.6 solar flare is earthbound. A skywatcher alert has been issued for auroras in possibly lower as well as higher latitudes. Experts agree a cloud of radiation from a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), will hit the Earth’s magnetic field on or about Feb. 15th. The source of…
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your solarcast: dalton minimum repeat
The lack of sunspot activity seems to support predictions of cold temperatures? Anthony Watts, in an article at Watts Up With That?, predicts a repeat of a Dalton Minimum. Watts recaps solar cycle expert David Archibald’s graphs. What is a Dalton Minimum and its weather implications? “The Dalton Minimum was a period of low solar activity,…
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nasa says solar flare will strike earth nov 14 or 15
Sunspot 1123 hurled a C-4 class solar flare in the Earth’s direction just south of the Sun-Earth line, sometime, in the early hours of Nov. 12, 2010. The coronal mass ejection (CME) could glance off the Earth’s magnetic field on either Nov. 14th or Nov. 15th to create auroras. Full article is at Before It’s…
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1859 carrington event
NASA website recaps 1859 Carrington Event the largest known solar flare observed by English astronomer Richard Carrington. “Just before dawn the next day, skies all over planet Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight. Indeed, stunning auroras pulsated even at near tropical…
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10/21 Defcon: Do-It-Yourself Domestic Domains
US says military can respond to domestic cyberthreats // Cyberspace is the new domain of warfare // Cybercom operational this month
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defcon 8/19: flashback flares & jackal hacktivism
video: top physicist says solar flare would set us back 100yrs* sun affects earth more than you might realize* call it ‘operation ajax truth’: iranian activists deface uk genetics website* 19 aug ’53 – anglo-american military coup in iran* ‘day of the jackal’ & ‘odessa file’ author/journalist blames nsa for wife’s laptop hack* wikileaks says…
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Sun Storms May Bring Northern Lights South
The sun may be about to put on a colorful light show. That’s because of two minor solar storms that flared on Sunday and are shooting tons of plasma directly at Earth.