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A sea microbe humbles scientists and inspires reverence
… genome of any photosynthetic cells so, with the smallest number of genes, it can convert solar energy, carbon dioxide and inorganic compounds into organic carbon. “I think of it as the …
April star of the month: Vindemiatrix
… than the Sun. From its temperature and distance of 102 light years, its luminosity is 83 times solar, these combining to give a radius 12 times that of the Sun, all similar to the brighter, …
Morning Briefing
… … Little Rock, Ark. … Diocese faces scrutiny over priest … Catholic University Students Design Solar Picnic Table … The story behind the Catholic college prof and the stripper story: … Schools …
On nuclear power, the warnings are clear
… energy “an important part of our energy future, along with renewable sources like wind, solar, natural gas and clean coal.”) More significantly, in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel …
Japan disaster raises ethical questions about energy
… would "give impetus to jump starting massive research" in other energy technologies, such as solar and wind power, according to William French, director of the Center for Ethics at Loyola … compared to $3.1 billion for fossil fuels and $1.4 billion for renewable energy, especially solar. If subsidies are not counted, electricity from natural gas is cheapest, followed by hydroelectricity, conventional coal technology, wind, geothermal, biomass, nuclear and solar energy, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Some experts say that if renewable …
Ways the pentagon uses our treasure
… interesting problems to engineers and scientists who might otherwise be perfecting windmills, solar reflector pools and photovoltaic cells. These unmanned systems and communications tools …
Japan's tsunami, the Stations of the Cross, and resurrection
… facilities. All of them are vulnerable . We need to convert these nuclear plants into wind and solar farms and alternative sources of energy. While in L.A., I visited friends who recently …
Environmentalists spar over nuclear power
… Club, on the other hand argues that the best approach for the future would be to “develop solar, work on geothermal and research nuclear,” rather than building new plants. Pope is … a 30 percent level of sources that do not emit carbon, and even assuming a big increase in solar power, the country would need to build more than 40 nuclear plants by 2020, which is not …
March night skies
… easy to pick out. It rises in the east in mid-evening. The largest and smallest planets in the solar system slide past each other the week of March 14. . Jupiter is the larger and brighter of …
Canadian cathedral installs solar panels -- inside stained glass
… Catholic Church, a $28.5-million cathedral under construction in Saskatoon's northeast, has solar cells embedded in the large stained glass windows that will be installed this spring. The … a library. Back in 2009 I wrote an NCR story for my Mission Management column about the use of solar power by the Diocese of San Jose, Calif. …