Building Light Mercury Solar 
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MAY 1, 2024
The use of models to show the movements of the planets and stars goes back centuries, starting with mechanical orreries that used clockwork mechanisms to depict our solar system. ZEISS Archive At first, Bauersfeld focused on projecting just the sun, moon, and planets of our solar system.
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NOVEMBER 25, 2023
On the rooftop of a quiet building, a set of panels cools the rooms within and keeps the lights on, removing heat and generating electricity using the coldness of the sky. That cold isn’t in the air around the building—the night is warm. Consider solar radiation, which carries heat from the sun to Earth’s surface.
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FEBRUARY 24, 2024
So IEEE Spectrum is making one of its occasional forays into science fiction, with a short story by Karl Schroeder about the unexpected outcomes from building a computer out of planet Mercury. This strategy would also make it easier to harvest solar energy. The specks blazed with light and shot away from the sun, accelerating.
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FEBRUARY 18, 2022
George Porter’s flash of insight at a lighting factory On a trip to collect a mercury arc lamp for the searchlight, Porter saw flash lamps being made at a Siemens factory. In the lab, they had been using a continuous light source without much success. He needed a faster light source. The figurative lightbulb turned on.
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OCTOBER 26, 2021
You notice the smell of smoke, and when you try to turn on your bedside light you discover that the power is out. sensor units mounted on buildings to stream data via Wi-Fi to Web-based mapping programs. Sensors that mount on buildings can just plug into a wall outlet. Why is the dog barking, you wonder, as you wake up?
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JULY 6, 2022
“Build something that will absolutely, positively work.” This was the mandate from NASA for designing and building the James Webb Space Telescope—at 6.5 micrometers, whereas Webb is built to observe infrared light that stretches to 28 ?m meter-diameter light-collecting area. m in wavelength. NASA and the U.S.
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OCTOBER 22, 2009
Health and other non-climate damages by life-cycle component for different combinations of fuels and light-duty automobiles in 2005 (top) and 2030 (bottom). GHG emissions (grams CO 2 -eq)/VMT by life-cycle component for different combinations of fuels and light-duty automobiles in 2005 (top) and 2030 (bottom). Click to enlarge.
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