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Set aside, for a second, the myriad complaints that get lobbed at solar power—that they’re too expensive, that they’re hated by Republican politicians and have become "partisan"—and just look at the brass tax; the potential electrical output of... 
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Stanford University researchers have invented goggles that can send information to chips, which behave like solar cells, implanted into eye retinas. The invention could solve blindness. Via Kalani Kirk Hausman
Dr. David Blair's curator insight,
June 8, 2014 4:30 PM
This is very early technology but it is a very exciting advancement. Scientists have invented an exciting technology that may be an option some day for the millions of patients suffering from blindness every year. The technology is pretty amazing. The team developed goggles which create high res images which are then optimized by a computer the size of a smart phone. Once the images are optimized, they are transferred to tiny cells under the retina via lasers from the googles. From there, the body's normal biologic processes take over and convert the light into electric impulses sent to the brain. This technology is currently only being tested in rats.
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(Phys.org) -- Artemis Innovation Management Solutions has been given some seed money by NASA to look deeper into a project the company first proposed last summer; namely, building a satellite that could collect energy from the sun and beam it back down to Earth to add to the electrical grid. Articles about TECHNOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=technology
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Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas have been increasing over the past decades, causing Earth to get hotter and hotter. There are concerns that a continuation of these trends could have catastrophic effects, including crop failures in the heat-stressed tropics. This has led some to explore drastic ideas for combating global warming, including the idea of trying to counteract it by reflecting sunlight away from Earth. However, it has been suggested that reflecting sunlight away from Earth might itself threaten the food supply of billions of people.
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SUNSHADE ENGINEERING IS CRIMINAL - THIS IS A MISGUIDED ATTEMPT BY IDIOTS AND CRIMINALS WHO THINK THEY CAN DUMP TONS OF POISONS INTO OUR AIR WITH LITTLE REGARD TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS. SUNSHADE ENGINEERING IS CRIMINAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEfJO0-cTis
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Imagine if the next coat of paint you put on the outside of your home generates electricity from light -- electricity that can be used to power the appliances and equipment on the inside.
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Water splitting in photo-electrochemical cells to yield hydrogen is a promising way to sustainable fuels.
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From NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. This video takes images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory and applies additional processing to enhance the structures that are visible. The result is a beautiful, new way of looking at the sun.
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MIT researcher Andreas Mershin has a vision that within a few years, people in remote villages in the developing world may be able to make their own solar panels, at low cost, using otherwise worthless agricultural waste as their raw material.
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Visitors to Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building may have experienced a curious acoustic feature that allows a person to whisper softly at one side of the cavernous, half-domed room and for another on the other side to hear every syllable.
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A new sunflower-inspired pattern increases concentrated solar efficiency.
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It's always sunny in low-Earth orbit, so what better place to look for a source of solar energy?
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change will increase the amount of electricity generated by solar power in some parts of the world while decreasing it in others.
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