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Want to know how a business or home can go solar? CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos speaks with Gary Gerber, founder of Sun Light and Power, about what needs to be installed to start running apart from the electric grid.
An international team of more than 100 researchers has used the huge Borexino detector to detect low-energy solar neutrinos for the first time. These results confirm recent 'theories about the nature of neutrinos and the inner workings of the sun and other stars.' In particular, it's now almost certain that neutrinos oscillate between three types, namely electron, muon and tau neutrinos. The Borexino detector used for these discoveries is located near L'Aquila, Italy. It is a 18-meter-diameter dome shielded by 2,400 tonnes of purified water and lying more than a kilometer underground to block interferences with cosmic rays. Impressive...
A revolutionary recipe to cook hydrogen has been elaborated by European scientists, and this might be used to drive our future hydrogen cars in about ten years.
A Sun guru's warning of the risk of data center failure fatally undermines the company's Red Shift strategy. Don't listen to the lobbying of the techno-utility complex. Ever-larger data center consolidation is strategically untenable in the modern world.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) reports that a new service using its satellites can deliver the UV index to your cellphone via SMS. The HappySun service will advise about how to protect you and send you details about sea surface temperature and sea water transparency if you plan to dive. So far, the service is limited to two areas in Italy.
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New scientific data shows that not only is the Arctic warming, but human-caused air pollution is cancelling out a natrual trend that would otherwise have the Arctic cooling. The Arctic is the warmest it's been in 2000 years.
It wasn't widely reported at the time, but a major sun flare that took place last December 6 did quite a number on our planet's GPS systems. "Our increasingly technologically dependent society is becoming increasingly vulnerable to space weather," David L.