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Solar Power Has Its Day

There is Sunday of course which was originally and literally Sun’s day as a vaguely religious observance.

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Sun May Soon Plunge Into Hot Cloud of Interstellar Gas

Don’t worry about stocking up on sunscreen, but our solar system may be headed for a celestial version of global warming. A new analysis suggests that in about 100 years the sun could plunge into a hot cloud of interstellar gas. The change should have no impact on our planet, but it could boost the amount of deadly radiation in space, making missions more challenging for future astronauts.

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Solar Plane Almost Ready for Record Flight

In Switzerland, two pioneers are coming closer and closer to a flight around the world powered only by solar energy. It doesn’t make good business sense, physics sense, or much of any kind of sense, to try to fly an airplane on solar power. Not yet

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Our Own Solar System Still Holds Surprises!

NASA scientists have discovered a mysterious ribbon around our solar system, a stripe made of hydrogen. This was entirely unexpected, and inconsistent with what scientists thought the edge of the solar system might look like

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Our Own Solar System Still Holds Surprises!

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Finally, Some (Almost) Good News About Ice Sheets!

New ground measurements made by the West Antarctic Global Positioning System (GPS) Network (WAGN) project suggest the rate of ice loss of the West Antarctic ice sheet has been slightly overestimated.

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"Revelry by the River" Honors Some, Inspires All

On a balmy summer night this week, the kind perfect for reflecting on the beauty and vitality of nature, supporters of Solar One gathered to champion just such a vision at the “Revelry by the River” event.

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SOLAR 1’s REVELRY BY THE RIVER JUNE 2nd

Solar 1’s annual Revelry By The River Benefit to build enthusiasm, awareness and help raise funds needed to break ground in 2009 for Solar 2, Green Energy, Arts and Education Center in New York City. This will be the first Platinum LEED certified public building in the city to leave a “zero carbon footprint”, generating more energy than it consumes becoming a prototype for many major cities in this country.

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Pumping Green Power from Fake Plastic Trees

Dutch founder of London’s Solar Botanic Ltd.

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Pumping Green Power from Fake Plastic Trees

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Shellfish reefs are ‘most imperilled sea habitat’

Globally, 85 per cent of reefs have been lost. Destructive fishing practices, disease and coastal development threaten many of the survivors. What sounds like an apocalyptic vision of the future for the world’s tropical corals is in fact a chilling assessment of the current state of reefs built in cooler waters by oysters and other bivalve shellfish.

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U.S. Carbon Emissions Fall by Most Since ‘82

U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide related to energy use fell 2.8 percent last year, according to an estimate by the Energy Information Administration, driven down by high oil prices and the sagging economy.

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