Solar Man's Blog – November 2009 Archive (14)

Any Global Warming Deniers Here? Take A Look at the Video and Please Comment

http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/09-10/qq-2009-11-28.html

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Added by Solar Man on November 29, 2009 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Global Warming Report Finds that Time is Running Out

There's even less time for humanity to try to curb global warming than recently thought, according to a new in-depth scientific assessment by 26 scientists from eight countries. Sea level rise, ocean acidification and the rapid melting of massive ice sheets are among the significantly increased effects of human-induced global warming assessed in the survey, which also examines the emissions of heat-trapping gases that are causing the climate change.

"Many indicators are currently… Continue

Added by Solar Man on November 25, 2009 at 4:34am — 1 Comment

COP15---THE FUTURE IS BEING DECIDED NOW!

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Added by Solar Man on November 21, 2009 at 5:03pm — No Comments

Solar Power ---Here's What A Solar Expert (Dr. Knies) Has To Say ABout It Now--Desertec Project

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Added by Solar Man on November 20, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Solar Power Ground School--a few terms defined

System Efficiency

Energy conversion efficiency - is an expression of the amount of energy produced in proportion to the amount of energy measured as incident solar radiation. Conventional photovoltaic (PV) systems generating either electricity or hot water are able to achieve 12% to 40% efficiency respectively

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Photovoltaics convert light energy to electricity. When GaAs is exposed to sunlight, a small amount of electricity is released known… Continue

Added by Solar Man on November 20, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Human-Carrying, Solar-Powered Aircraft Ready For Maiden Flight--The Around-the-World Capable "Solar Impulse" Has Arrived!!!

Aerovironment eat your heart out....

Yesterday (11/19/09), the Solar Impulse HB-SIA taxied down the runway powered by its own engines.

At the controls of the HB-SIA, Solar Impulse test pilot Markus Scherdel cautiously took to the runway under the watchful eyes of the whole team, with computers monitoring the plane’s behaviour online via the embedded telemetric devices.

This inaugural day out on the runway allowed low-speed runway testing with the… Continue

Added by Solar Man on November 20, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Satellite Solar Power Station ("SSPS") Revisited---by the Japanese This Time Around

Harvesting solar power from space through orbiting solar farms sounds extremely interesting. Mitsubishi Electric Corp., a manufacturer of solar panels, has decided to join an AUD $25 billion Japanese project to construct a massive solar farm in space within three decades.

Japan has already started working towards achieving its goal by developing a technology for 1-gigawatt solar farm, which would include four square kilometers of solar panels that will be stationed 36,000 kilometers… Continue

Added by Solar Man on November 20, 2009 at 6:08pm — No Comments

Cheap Energy Comes at High “Hidden” Cost

U.S. consumers pay much less for their energy, per kilowatt, than consumers in most industrialized nations. Yet electricity and fuel prices typically fail to reflect the full cost of energy production and consumption, especially in terms of health effects.

The U.S. Congress requested a clarification of "hidden" energy costs as part of its 2005 energy bill. The result, released on Monday, concluded that the external effects of burning fossil fuels cost the United States more than $120… Continue

Added by Solar Man on November 13, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Say Goodbye to Greenland-It's Melting Faster Than EVER!

ScienceDaily (Nov. 13, 2009) — Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science.

This mass loss is equally distributed between increased iceberg production, driven by acceleration of Greenland's fast-flowing outlet glaciers, and increased meltwater production at the ice sheet surface. Recent warm summers further accelerated the mass… Continue

Added by Solar Man on November 13, 2009 at 5:45am — No Comments

Global Warming Will Yield 12ft Sea Level Rise --New Drill Core Samples Yield Info--12 ft Sea Level Rise is Coming Soon

Inaugural Lectures are very traditional university events, held these days to permit outstanding researchers to present an overview of their work to the wider academic community and public. Last night Prof. Tim Naish delivered a clear and decisive verdict about human-induced climate change: the evidence is unassailable.

Held in the very formal surrounds of the Hunter Building Council Chambers, the room was full to what I would guess its capacity of 400-500 people. His presentation… Continue

Added by Solar Man on November 7, 2009 at 2:45am — 1 Comment

Last Chance to See...Smell....Touch

Anderson: On this first day of a new century we humbly beg forgiveness and dedicate these last forests of our once beautiful nation to the hope that they will one day return and grace our foul earth. Until that day may God bless these gardens and the brave men who care for them.

Freeman Lowell: It calls back a time when there were flowers all over the Earth... and there were valleys. And there were plains of tall green grass that you could… Continue

Added by Solar Man on November 6, 2009 at 5:00am — No Comments

We Live in a Time of Environmental Consequences

Melting Glaciers May Release Trapped Legacy Pollutants

Historical trends of (A) ΣPCDD/F, (B) ΣPCB, and (C) ΣDDT in sediment from Lake Oberaar and from low-altitude lakes in Switzerland, normalized relative to their maximum historical peaks. The “second peak” for Lake Oberaar supports the hypothesis of pollutant release from melting. Credit: ACS, Bogdal et al. Click to enlarge.

Melting glaciers in the Alps may cause severe environmental damage due to the release of… Continue

Added by Solar Man on November 5, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments