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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

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Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. It’s our hope in 2024 to validate our model and then, as [they] say in Silicon Valley, design it once and build it a million times.” in computer science.

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Study: Atmospheric Engineering with Aerosols Could Reduce Effectiveness of Certain Kinds of Solar Power

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The atmospheric engineering scheme of using sunlight-scattering stratospheric aerosols to combat global warming could reduce the effectiveness of certain kinds of solar power generation systems using parabolic or other concentrating optics. Murphy, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Daniel Murphy. Technol. ,

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Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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Adolf Goetzberger Photovoltaics pioneer Life Fellow, 94; died 24 February Goetzberger was an early proponent of solar energy technologies. Today solar is the third largest renewable-electricity sector behind hydropower and wind. The research paved the way for more effective solar power generation. Sauer served in the U.S.

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Video Friday: Strandbeest

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MIT ] A clever design for an antidrone drone, although from the look of things, you’ll have to be very talented to catch anything with it. It’s the most zoomed-in, highest frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse ever taken from the Martian surface. [ At that point I declare them extinct and they go to the bone yard.

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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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Traditional orreries were mechanical models of the solar system. These often beautiful and intricate instruments were devised by skilled clockmakers to illustrate how the planets and their moons moved through the solar system. Not only was Musser an amazing performer and composer, he was also a designer of musical instruments.

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How Will EV Charging Powered by Renewable Energy Create a Greener World

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The tectonic-plate-related power is generated most in Iceland, El Salvador, New Zealand, Kenya, and the Philippines. Solar and wind are the easiest to locate, scale, and convert to energy. Solar power ranges from single solar panels on individual roofs to large distributed solar “farms.”