Have a Grat Ass Christmas everybody.. Its ben a little busy around here so I havent been able to show too much Great Ass Information recently.. But we have some great things on the horizon.. 
Have a Happy Holidays and a Great Ass New Year.
Wow, We have been waiting for this for such a long time. This is a dream come true. If we can spread this technology for cheap so that everyone can use it, then we can finally stop wasting fuel and money.
But there are always some obstacles to something so great such as this. First is obviously cost, and I’m pretty sure that this new technology won’t be cheap so that everyone can buy it, but I guess a public solar power plant is fine. Second is greedy corporations who will try to block this technology to maximize their monopoly of the market. Finally, … no finally, these are the major problems.
Sunlight that comes to Earth has provides more energy than thousands of hydrogen bombs each day. If we can harness this energy, such as with this new solar panel, then world energy crisis would be solved.
We can expand this to automobiles, houses, public works, skyscrapers, the LHC, and many other power consuming factors.
Solar energy to electricity is the most efficient way to generate electricity in general.
Other forms of power requires you to go from:
Plants absorb light (3% efficient at most), plant decomposes, millions of years you get fuel, extract fuel, burn fuel, boil water, push turbine, store energy, send energy, and appliances are less than 75% efficient.
Through all of these steps, so much power caused by friction and other resisting forces will be lost.
Solar power is simply:
Sunlight to panels which is greatly more efficient than burning fuel or even hydroelectricity.
article courtesy of TG daily
Columbus (OH) - Researchers at Ohio State University have accidentally discovered a new solar cell material capable of absorbing all of the sun’s visible light energy. The material is comprised of a hybrid of plastics, molybdenum and titanium. The team discovered it not only fluoresces (as most solar cells do), but also phosphoresces. Electrons in a phosphorescent state remain at a place where they can be “siphoned off” as electricity over 7 million times longer than those generated in a fluorescent state. This combination of materials also utilizes the entire visible spectrum of light energy, translating into a theoretical potential of almost 100% efficiency. Commercial products are still years away, but this foundational work may well pave the way for a truly renewable form of clean, global energy.
A complete study of the team’s work appears in the current issue of “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” (PNAS).
Fluorescence and phosphorescence
Traditional solar cell materials use a property called fluorescence to gather electricity. Energy from the sun strikes whatever material they are made of resulting in a momentary “dislodging” of electrons into an excited state. The excited electrons exist due to a property called fluorescence. They last only a dozen or so picoseconds (trillionths of a second) in this state, which is also called a “singlet state.” The many picosecond dwell there is fairly typical among traditional solar cell material in use today.
The new material, which was accidentally discovered using supercomputers to determine possible theoretical molecular configurations, causes not only fluorescing electrons in the singlet state to be created, but also phosphorescing electrons in what’s called a “triplet state.”
These triplet state electrons remain in their excited state of phosphorescence for scores of microseconds (up to about 200 microseconds, or 0.0002 seconds). With such a long lasting state of free electron flow, their ability to be captured is theoretically significantly greater than existing technologies.
And if the research team’s current efforts (of using only a few molecules of the hybrid materials suspended in a liquid solution) can be extended into practical real-world scales, then products yielding nearly 100% solar efficiency may soon be achievable.
Solar cell technology
Today’s best solar cell technologies utilize several material layers to convert the infrared, ultraviolet and visible portions of the spectrum into electrical energy. This equates to about 61% efficiency in the furthest extremes of the technology, though something around mid-40% is far more typical. Solar cells like these are also incredibly expensive, fragile and impractical for mass production, making them useful for projects like satellites. They have no real potential to become real alternatives for the base consumer’s energy needs.
Quite recently, plastic solar cells have been created which achieve between 7% and 11% efficiency. While this may not sound like a lot, such products and materials are extremely inexpensive to produce in bulk quantities, costing about $3 per square meter. The idea of having a rooftop covered by plastic solar cells in place of tar-based shingles has drawn many a consumer’s thought since being first reported in 2007. Commercial consumer products based on the technology, which could offer up to 14% efficiency if theories are to be believed, are promised within the next five years.
Alternate forms of using solar power
One of the biggest downfalls of using solar energy on the Earth’s surface is that it only works when there is strong sunlight. If it is overcast or if there are clouds, then the resulting efficiency drops sharply and much less power is generated. Also, on most places during most of the year it is dark about 50% of the time. This means some kind of battery storage system must be used to gather the energy during the sun’s brilliance in daylight hours, only to then rely on batteries during the night. This adds expense and complexity to solar cell solutions and produces a solution which has peaks and valleys of available power.
Another form of solar power, however, has bypassed some of those limitations. A phenomenal heat absorbing material (made primarily of sodium) uses a relatively simple technology to power itself. By directing the sun’s rays through a large array of mirrors which focus the sun’s heat and light onto a single spot of the material, it quickly heats up to a few thousand degrees. The material’s properties allow it to absorb and store much heat, and then release it slowly over time.
Building technologies around this solution have allowed the sun’s direct energy to continue to give off power during darkened times, much like a battery solution but without the need of a battery. The heat is stored in an insulating container, only to be tapped to power steam turbines or some other form of heat-sensitive motor technology.
Still not enough, more to come
The materials these researchers have created is not ready for prime time. Only a few molecules were created through a joint effort of the Ohio State University team and a team of chemists from the National Taiwan University. They synthesized enough of the material to carry out preliminary tests. And while these early findings are truly remarkable, there are still more on the horizon.
Supercomputers are enabling an entire new area of materials. No longer do scientists have to physically create samples of every possible material in the lab, only to test and document everything they find about it. Today they can set up a series of parameters and instruct a supercomputing machine to find the one that best aligns with their desires, wants and wishes. And while such computations often takes many days or even weeks for each trial material, it’s more economical and feasible than the old route. Plus, it enables materials like these which were, in this context, accidentally discovered using computers.
The materials analysis these supercomputers carry out is only as good as they are properly designed, and the machine is powerful. Technology sciences like semiconductors and machine manufacturing are quickly overcoming every aspect of limitations regarding the machine’s power. And ironically, faster computers are allowing research teams to develop better and more comprehensive models for materials research.
It won’t be too long before supercomputers light the way for the truly revolutionary form of renewable energy generation. Who knows, it may come from a bacteria inside the digestive tract of a beetle. But, if you believe anything in science then you must believe it’s out there. We just have to find it. And tools like supercomputers, and efforts like these at Ohio State University, are proving time and time again how valuable they are in increasing man’s knowledge.
Nootdorp the Netherlands
An amateur film maker who started to film wildlife.
Wanted to film an eagle but then caught a UFO instead over a lake in the Netherlands.
Today the footage is on the internet.
There is no chance of this being a bird.. so the question remains.. what is it??
Here is some Great Ass Information for Everyone..
How to make a stove from a soda can
How to identify wild plants for eating
How to survive in a cold environment
How to survive in a hot environment
Just a few videos that I hope you guys find useful.
Check this out..
Download it now before Nasa changes their mind.,.
During all the hassle with the Space Craft from GFL I too became obsessed with errors in cloud data and have indeed posted to that effect. In any case something good did come out of all this: I found NASA World Wind thanks to member alphabetaone pointing it out to me.
Ofcourse I started fiddling with it right away because it is so much better than google earth with regards to accuracy. It is a beautiful piece of software with all sorts of goodies plugged in like Geofysical data for elevation, weather, temperature, etc. Most importantly: it is as accurate as can be.
Then I found that they even had the Moon mapped in there with satellite data, elevation and lighting features.
So, I, who always wanted to flip the moon over to see what is on the DARK SIDE (the one side that is not reflecting sunlight because of the relative position of the Moon towards the Earth and Sun) was thinking “Hmmm…”
IF there is something there as legend has it (Ancient base or new structures made by covert projects from Earth) it is quite sure that those parts are censored as missing data, i.e. the famous “Black Patches”. Simple missing satellite data as so well explained by knowledgable members on this forum.
What if they missed something?
Let´s fly & find out.