Posts Tagged ‘science’
Below we have a video of a very progressive thinking guy. Taking the asphalt road that we have been taking for granted all these years and replacing it with a newer, very 21st century technological, power producing, solaricious road. The idea is to take glass, that is as hard as steel and place solar panels under the glass. That way the road, that is just sitting in the sunlight all day now becomes a power-plant taking electricity to you and your neighbors doorsteps, for free..well until the power company finds some way to charge you for it.
In the video he talks about how they plan to put LEDS in the panels to light up the roads, and give dynamic warnings to drivers, as well as make the pieces weathers, shatter and slip proof. Problem is that I can’t see power companies really enjoying the thought of their billion-dollar business going the way side for free power. I for one would love to see something like this because you know the web will spring up with hundred of ways to hack into the grid for the free energy. I enjoy the idea of taking all of these technologies and combining them into new, innovative and useful applications. With the impending loss of loss fuels, oil and energy derived from rocks we find in the ground, humanity needs progressive thinkers that are willing to take risks and push forward to harness the powers that we have around us for the free use of energy, that is clean and green. If we hope to ever get off this rock and explore the universe before our sun explodes or we kill each other, getting this world more energy efficient is a must and this is a great idea…plus when we get hover/flying cars we can just have normal glass since we won’t be going 80 over it and smashing into one another all the time. Kudps to this guy! Check out the video below.
~ Cannoli ~
The study, that was headed by Dr. Ian Stephen, showed that with five additional portions of vegetables per day to ones diet, that over the course of 2 months participants skin had a much healthier and radiant glow. The research isn’t anything too revolutionary, but it went something like this:
1) Get willing participants
2) Have half of them double their fruit/vegetables.
3) Observe how Carotenoids (which are found in high volumes in RED vegetables and fruits) affect the skin.
4) Get participants a tan.
5) Ask strangers to judge them. (best part)
If the research could be photographed it would look something like this:
The face in the middle shows the woman's natural color. The face on the left shows the effect of sun tanning, while the face on the right shows the effect of eating more Carotenoids. Participants thought the Carotenoid color looked healthier.
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Scientists over at Standford U have their heads in the right places. The science comes from dipping fabrics into an “ink” of carbon nanotubes, and was first demonstrated last year on plain copier paper. The advantage to using fabrics or textiles is that now batteries” become flexible!
…Stanford University in the US has shown that [their] “ink” made of carbon nanotubes – cylinders of carbon just billionths of a metre across – can serve as a dye that can simply and cheaply turn a t-shirt into an “e-shirt”.
The researchers hope that they can eventually make wearable solar cells integrated into clothing, meaning we could charge our cellphones, for example, by just walking around outside. In my opinion I hope that besides solar cells researchers eventually integrate wireless receivers into everyday dress-ware so that we can access the network from anywhere….crazy!