It is possible to turn water into electricity. Solar energy is one of the cleanest and cheapest ways to convert liquid H2O into steam. The energy in steam is 9 times greater than the energy in the same weight of boiling water. The math suggests that each gallon of evaporated water is equal to running […]
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Turning Water Into Electricity
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The Costs of Solar Energy
A lot of the environmental costs of solar depend on how the panels and batteries are produced, transported and disposed of… and most importantly how the energy is stored. As renewable energy grows, storage will become a greater problem. In general, we would be better off producing energy like the sun (fusion) than trying to […]
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Tagged batteries, climate change, evaporation, fusion, global warming, Nuclear Energy, nuclear fusion, solar panels, storage, The Economics of Turning Water into Electricity, toxic waste, turn water into electricity, water
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Nuclear Fusion
Nuclear fusion offers the most hope at rectifying human induced climate change. Nuclear fusion is how the sun works. In a press release, Lockheed Martin states a breakthrough: The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Skunk Works® team is working on a new compact fusion reactor (CFR) that can be developed and deployed in as little as […]
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Dreadnoughtus
The world’s largest dinosaur has been discovered. The creature Argentina lived about 77 million years ago. Though it is huge, about two stories high, it is believed to have been an immature specimen still in it’s growth stage. “We thought it was time a plant-eating dinosaur got a badass name,” said Matt Lamanna, Carnegie Museum […]
Colorado River Running Dry
NASA reports: A new study by scientists from NASA and the University of California, Irvine, has found that over 75 percent of the water loss in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin since late 2004 came from underground resources. The extent of groundwater loss may pose a greater threat to the water supply of the western […]
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Strange July Weather
NASA reports that North America weather patterns for July 2014 were upside down: If you live in the northern hemisphere, the past few weeks have been strange. In places where it should be seasonably hot—the eastern and southern United States and western Europe—it’s just been warm. In places where weather is usually mild in the […]
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European Extremely Large Telescope
Astronomers are building a new telescope called the “European Extremely Large Telescope”. Construction has started in Chile where they have blown the top off of the Cerro Armazones mountain. The telescope will be the largest in the world and consisting of 789 hexagonal mirrors.
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Swimming In Ice Cubes
Air temperatures in the states and provinces around the Great Lakes suggest that meteorological summer has arrived. But the icy grip of winter is lingering in cool water temperatures and drifting chunks of ice. For nearly seven months, ice has been afloat somewhere on the Great Lakes, an ice season longer than anything in the […]
Collapse Of West Antarctica
The collapse of the ice sheet in West Antarctica have raised concern about the rising sea level. “This is really happening,” Thomas P. Wagner, who runs NASA’s programs on polar ice, said. “There’s nothing to stop it now. But you are still limited by the physics of how fast the ice can flow.” “Today we […]
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Self-healing Materials: Vascular Blood-like Plastic
Self-healing materials have been a breakthrough in this millennium. “Self-healing materials are a class of smart materials that have the structurally incorporated ability to repair damage caused by mechanical usage over time. The inspiration comes from biological systems, which have the ability to heal after being wounded. Initiation of cracks and other types of damage […]
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