Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Global Warming Killing Rice Production
This makes me very sad. Politicians argue while very bad things happen.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Can a Disruptive PV Technology Topple First Solar?
There is a nice article at http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Can-a-Disruptive-Solar-Technology-Topple-First-Solar/ discussing the many competing technologies for harvesting energy from the sun.
A lot of bets have been placed. Some of those require gallium nitride (GaN), most don't. A very new report of new research results makes GaN look even more interesting for solar cell applications - see http://www.getsolar.com/News/California/Solar-Panels/Breakthrough-Solar-Technology-Could-Double-Cell-Efficiency-19918012 where we find the article:
"Breakthrough Solar Technology Could Double Cell Efficiency" and see that the materials play is based on cesium-coated GaN.
Very cool!!!
Global Warming
Remember what Al Gore said in his book "An Inconvenient Truth?" He pointed out that most scientists agree, or was it all of them, yet the politicians seem relatively evenly divided on the issue of whether global warming was indeed occurring?
I figured the heck with human interpretation: lets just see what is happening to the Polar Ice Cap. You can get the latest Wikipedia thoughts at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_ice_cap and then you get introduced to an interesting term "Arctic Shrinkage" and you can read more about the latter at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_shrinkage.
But again, the heck with interpretation, lets just look at the pictures. Go to http://www.google.com/images?q=Arctic%20shrinkage&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1680&bih=933 and see for yourself.
Sincerely yours,
Captain Nitride
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