Archive for February, 2010

Rhone Reach, President and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is interviewed by Renewable Energy World.

I am thinking of someday in the near (or little farther) future using solar power to replace, or reduce my current electrical company usage, so that I can slowly wean myself of the "government grid".

But I am wondering, how feasible it is to use solar panels, and related items, to generate the amount of electricity necessary to power all the electrical items used daily in a home, like the lights, fridge & freezer, the stove, oven, TV’s, computers, clocks, etc.

Of course, I doubt, at least at first that it will be possible to completely eliminate the need & use of traditional electric services.

But as much as I hate government (and eventually hope to emigrate elsewhere) I want to wean myself off the government controlled system as much as possible, if not totally someday.

Is it possible to run a home entirely on solar power, and still generate enough power to run all the appliances of daily life??

Physics question about solar energy?

The amount of solar energy reaching your body when you sunbathe on an ocean beach in summer is about 760 W/m2. Assume that your body absorbs 45 percent of this incident radiation and that your exposed body area is 0.45 m2. How much solar energy do you absorb in 1 h?

Also, Estimate how much perspiration must evaporate to dissipate this energy.

Time passed and the existence of dark energy remains as strange as possible to astrophysicists. Examples

a) They say that the universe appears to be expanding at an accelerated rate, which implies the existence of a strange new form of energy – dark energy.

b) They say that a subtle difference in brightness of such distant supernovae have led to the conclusion that no idea which formed 70% of the cosmos, but space is at a different substance – which makes them believe that the universe is expanding, not contract.

c) They say that the Cosmological Principle implies that the universe is expanding, getting colder and is full of reminiscences of his early overheated.

d) They are almost impossible to point a telescope to a black hole, because you can not see it, unless he is surrounded by luminous matter.

e) Around this difficulty seeing the black hole, they say it is located in the center of gravity such activity.

f) Binary System: They say that some black holes have a star as a companion. The two orbit each other – while the black hole is illuminated by the star, the field will swallow up all the star disappear.

g) said that an accretion disk it is matter that will be sucked inexorably toward the black hole in spiral trajectories. Full saying that the internal parts of the accretion disc, matter is so heated that emits X-rays detected in telescopes.

h) To complete a small part of the astronomical controversies, they discriminate against our own Earth – used to say that the earth in his remarks on the outskirts of the Solar System – can be considered an insignificant object orbiting our sun king – they call them ordinary star – what makes people believe that there is nothing special about our location. Ironically still say we are insignificant in this cradle existential.

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Something never change, at any time or place of the universe.
Around this sentence are constructed theories of physics that define the structure of Nature.

Physics has progressed to make measurements increasingly accurate for their values.

Nevertheless, dwindle until today could predict or explain these constants through the specific numerical values of the International System of Units (SI), numbers that follow no discernible pattern.

But physicists have hoped that such a theory show that each constant of nature has only one possible value.

Would thus revealed some order behind the apparent arbitrariness of (SI). In recent months the confusion has put increasing instead of decreasing. For a mere mortal described a diagram of the Theory of everything in accordance with mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology:

Sol (+)> <{(-) Earth (+)}> <(-) Interstellar system, as well as with this math: a neutral force between two opposite forces at different temperatures, have different kinetic energies, covers responding infinitely by translation and rotation of the earth beyond the Circle of the lives of genetic species, be they human, animal or vegetable, are part of the cycle of Chemistry, which is linked to the environment: flora, fauna and micro-organisms which are the factors balance geological, atmospheric, meteorological and biological, materials and energy cycle of the ecosystem of Our History with the alternating cycle of Prehistory.

Have you found your theory of everything in accordance with the law of physics, chemistry and biology?
The two best answers Brazil

a) Milton W

"They say …"

Aristocrats academic Aristotelianism use "according to Tom, et al, et alii, operates citata, etcetera." Evoke the religious scriptures. The native remembers what his grandfather used to say. The diarist confirms when he "heard on the radio."

"They" is great. "They" is the bibliographic reference of a Diogenes, a Protagoras. It cynicism raising a flag of irony in the empty barrel of lucidity. "They say" it’s like a plumber who came to fix a drumbeat on the roof of the University but was found at the cafe when the storm was pouring a stream over the provision of the rector. "They" is the one who, while it is expected that the cellist and violinist of the orchestra reafinem between a Mozart and Bach, asks from the back "of Cazuza touch that!"
"They" is very good. If one day the ISS falls down and crashing on a residential neighborhood killing thousands of people, the causes are not explicable in the light of technology – the causes are summarized in a "say".

b) Titina

Tarcisinho, when physicists can find a "constant" they say "Phew!" and apply for the annual competition of scientific discovery. Beijooooooooooooooooooooo!

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