learnin to learn Posted November 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 we could always just send 2 satellites up in space and connect them with a wire and harness the power of the earth's magnetic field... lol that would be awsome.... but is it possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
learnin to learn Posted November 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 What about nuclear fusion? I know we do not yet the technology to accomplish this amazing feet but, do yall think it is even logically possible for us to use nuclear fusion here on earth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartock Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 who thinks that solar power would be a better form of energy compaired to nuclear power?fell free to commit!!!!solar energy is clean and safe. :friday: i an against neclear power plants.i remember chernobyl very well. :friday: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 ol that would be awsome.... but is it possible?it is very much possible and has even been tested by NASA... here is one of the articles: http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast08sep97_1.htm what you get is a low voltage, high current generator at a relatively short tether (about 3 miles or so if i'm not mistaken) Nasa doesnt really release a lot of data about the experiment (96) but its the space station was powered by this sort of generator for about 5 hours until the tether broke off... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry3 Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 This is for all you eco-minded bloggers and webmasters our there. I found this banner that you can put up to show your support for solar energy. I put it on my site and I'm really proud of it. I've been using solar panels for 6 years now, and this is my way of letting others know that they too can do their part. you have to have a special html code to put it on your site, but this is it: <a href="http://www.solarpanelinfo.com/"><img border="0" src="http://www.solarpanelinfo.com/supportsolarenergy.gif" alt="Support Solar Panels"></a> but its the space station was powered by this sort of generator for about 5 hours until the tether broke off... was it an equipment fault? That sounded like an excellent idea...at first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 no, there is all kinds of debree in space, and traveling at speeds that it does, it breaks anything, but it definitely was not an equipment fault.... the cool thing is that the tether was visible from the ground... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 Is solar energy really just a surface area issue... greater surface area of PVs, greater energy? Or is there a way to increase the efficiency of the panels beyond their current specs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 there is, by focusing light using a series of curved mirrors to a center piece of specially designed solar panel of about 1 in^2 (damn, i gotta work on that latex plugin for such occasions...), but yeah it beats the efficiency of any solar panel to date, it quite crazy, sorry i dont have time for a link right now, it was on science channel a while back, maybe someone else has some more info and a link, if not i'll post those tomorrow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guadalupe Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 who thinks that solar power would be a better form of energy compaired to nuclear power?fell free to commit!!!! Hi! learnin to learn. :) I understand that the nuclear energy coming from our sun helps with our solar energy in providing us with a much cleaner and safer source of energy. :cup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 there is, by focusing light using a series of curved mirrors to a center piece of specially designed solar panel of about 1 in^2 (damn, i gotta work on that latex plugin for such occasions...), but yeah it beats the efficiency of any solar panel to date, it quite crazy, sorry i dont have time for a link right now, it was on science channel a while back, maybe someone else has some more info and a link, if not i'll post those tomorrow...Cool. Thanks. That'd be cool to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 first off this is a good site: http://www.konarka.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 here you go, there is a lot of info on all kinds of solar panel things in here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Of course... wiki. Why didn't I think of that? Thanks alexander! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 anytime :singer: Michaelangelica 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armofreek Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 What about the power of Solar Wind? There must be a way to harness this energy. I don't know much about it, but catching the radioation in solar flares would defenatly produce some sort of power :evil: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Let's see - what is the ratio of people last year killed in automobiles over those killed by nuclear power plants? :) ___The night issue of solar is mediated with storage systems - batteries, flywheels, etc. ;)The Europeans are still tring to work out how many people are going to die early as a result of ChernobylEG http://www.chernobyl.co.uk/ * Increase In Thyroid Cancer. Between 1981 - 1985, the five years preceding the accident, the average thyroid cancer rate was 4-6 incidents per million Ukrainian young children (birth to 15 years). However between 1986 - 1997 this rose to 45 incidents per million. * Reachers also found that 64% of all Ukrainian thyroid cancer patients age 15 of younger lived in the most contaminated regions (the provinces of Kiev, Chernigov, Zhitomir, Cherkassy, and Rovno and the city of Kiev) Research is still happening in other countries. Apparently people who consumed contaminated milk products (like many European farmers) are most at risk.So we don't yet know the answer to your question: "what is the ratio of people last year killed in automobiles over those killed by nuclear power plants?" The reality is that we will go nuclear. China is, and thats 30% of us.(Australia and Canada with most of the world's uranium are happy. Yet Australia has refused to go nuclear. (Despite letting the Poms drop an A-Bomb on them once) Has Canada gone nuclear?Russia's old technology and inability to fix it is a big worry. Solar just has not (yet) delivered the goods. Yet I love the idea of solar. Is that because I am a Romantic?The idea of making plastic thin solar cells to put on high-rise windows is interesting. So too is "Green Design" of high rise. Sunlight is reflected and flows down to light dozens of stories of building.(I don't think the Chinese, who are building a city the size of Brisbane -capital of Queensland- ,every MONTH !, have heard of anything "green" yet.) What has happened to battery technology? It seems to have stoped 50 years ago?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 batteries are getting there, Toshiba, who does research for the Japanese army, has developed a battery that gets 90% of its charge in the first 5 minutes of charging, yet they last for as long as a regular battery and it looses i think .1% of its capacity in 1000 charges or something like that, incredibly small is my point. with that, and a suit that is covered with a solar pannel material and we can get our laptops to be much more environmentaly friendly :confused: recharging them on our way to work.... :eek2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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