Items tagged with solar

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Expedition 21 Crew Launches from Kazakhstan Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 - 09:43:18 - Anuradha Menon Flight Engineers Jeffrey Williams and Maxim Suraev of the 21st International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft from the... read more

Solar Cycle Linked to Global Climate Thursday, July 16th, 2009 - 16:38:36 - Anuradha Menon Establishing a key link between the solar cycle and global climate, research led by scientists at the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded... read more

Solar for Dark Climates Saturday, July 11th, 2009 - 10:30:13 - Anuradha Menon Cool Energy, a startup based in Boulder, CO, is developing a system that produces heat and electricity from the sun. It could help make solar energy... read more

Solar Impulse Concept Plane Unveiled Friday, June 26th, 2009 - 09:18:24 - Anuradha Menon Today, Swiss engineers unveil the Solar Impulse HB-SIA prototype plane. As the name suggests, the plane is designed to fly solely on solar power, and... read more

Planet-Hunting Method Finally Succeeds Friday, May 29th, 2009 - 16:11:05 - Anuradha Menon A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch -- a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known. The technique... read more

Transparent Solar Cells Fitted Onto Windows Saturday, May 9th, 2009 - 14:28:47 - Anuradha Menon Solar company Konarka has developed a transparent solar cell that it hopes will be built onto electricity-generating windows. The Lowell, Mass.-based... read more

Solar Systems Around Dead Suns? Monday, April 20th, 2009 - 17:54:15 - Ehud Rattner Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found that at least 1 in 100 white dwarf stars show evidence of... read more

Discovery Docks With Space Station Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 - 16:28:22 - Anuradha Menon The space shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station at 5:20 p.m. EDT Tuesday, delivering the final truss segment and pair of U.S... read more

Making Solar Cheaper than Coal Sunday, March 8th, 2009 - 20:37:35 - Iddo Genuth Starting in the 1970s, the Masssachussetts Institute of Technology mechanical-engineering professor had made significant contributions to solar... read more

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