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View Poll Results: which is a better form of energy?
solar power 37 66.07%
nuclear power 19 33.93%
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Old 11-09-2005   #21 (permalink)
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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...t08sep97_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...


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Old 02-01-2006   #22 (permalink)
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Re: Solar energy

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:

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<a href="http://www.solarpanelinfo.com/"><img border="0" src="http://www.solarpanelinfo.com/supportsolarenergy.gif" alt="Support Solar Panels"></a>
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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.
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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...


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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?
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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...


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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.




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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.
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first off this is a good site: http://www.konarka.com/


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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


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Of course... wiki. Why didn't I think of that? Thanks alexander!
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