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and store energy from wind and the Sun. As designs improve oe and get cheaper oe the idea of a home on the ocean will become more affordable.

Wafer-thin artificial leaves separate with the rising sun as buildings wake up. They continue to follow the sunlight over the course of the day,

India's electricity grid is kind of like the sun, White explains. You get electricity every day,

A group led by British-born plant scientist Stephen Long is trying to improve the ability of plants to harness energy from the sun. Their aim is to turbocharge photosynthesis,

and ramp up the plant's ability to harness the sun. That is easier said than done.

However, this is not the only way of increasing photosynthesis. Scientists are also exploring the idea that genes from the ancestors of modern-day plants might boost the ability of crops to harness the sun. It is well known that primitive plants known as cyanobacteria have a talent

said the soft-spoken inventor. oetemperature from the sun does not go beyond this level in terms of heating

The system works by mimicking the natural hydrological cycle where seawater heated by the sun,

Like the Seawater Greenhouse, CSP works well in hot arid areas where the sun is at its most powerful.

Success Beyond Dreams Ethan Nicholas was a Sun microsystems programmer, a games enthusiast and a father of two very young boys,

the cost of solar photovoltaics in sun belt countries would have dropped to just QAR0. 2-0. 39 per kilo watt hours clean electricity is already very affordable in 2050.

It will generate between 1-3 Gallons Water/day depending on the humidity conditions and sun conditions.

He cites a human study showing less sun damage to the skin of those who were administered the active ingredient

which nuclear power plants produce energy) is much easier to control than nuclear fusion (the process by which the sun burns, and nuclear weapons work).

It will use a donut-shaped magnetic field to contain gases that will reach temperatures comparable to those at the core of the sun, in excess of 150 million degrees C (270 million F),

in order to take advantage of the sun s energy, or grow indoors with the help of artificial lights.

So if you re getting too much sun on the beach, shining darkness on yourself becomes an easy solution.

Powered by two solar panels pointed toward the sun the lab would rotate at two revolutions per minute (rpm) simulating Mars's gravity.

in order to take advantage of the sun s energy or grow indoors with the help of artificial lights.

In one, a single country unilaterally pumps aerosols into the stratosphere to block the Sun's rays

I have also read that in the early days of the earth being formed it had smaller companion in orbit around the sun

Not just the Van allen belts the Van allen belts protects us from the sun . As soon as you leave the belts

But you have to realize that the heliosphere of our sun is gigantic. And in order for a solar wind to be deadly it requires whats called a coronal mass ejection

and while these happen quite frequently on the sun's surface the biggest ones that have the ability to do damage to us here as far away as we are On earth do not happen all the time.

The wisdom in human selection is the greatest risk factor here. tmarti69 As the Earth is currently in the beginnings of a magnetic polar flip with a ongoing to zero reduction of magnetic field more wild life will be subject to the the sun comsic radays

At least NASA acknowledges that specific conditions have to take place like the angle for viewing the sun's position your altitude

#If The Sun Went Out, How long Could Life On earth Survive? If you put a steamy cup of coffee in the refrigerator it wouldn't immediately turn cold.

Likewise if the sun simply turned off (which is actually physically impossible) the Earth would stay warm at least compared with the space surrounding it for a few million years.

Although some microorganisms living in the Earth's crust would survive the majority of life would enjoy only a brief post-sun existence.

Of course the sun doesn't merely heat the Earth; it also keeps the planet in orbit.

If the sun were to disappear as in*poof*-It's gone. It would take 8 minutes for the earth to go dark

No worries as most that atmosphere protected us from a sun that is no longer shining or at least will stop shining within 7 minutes 30 seconds...

Women and Minorities Hardest Hitif the suddenly the sun went out'poof'as this article suggest that thing which causes this event would surely have an effect at the same time On earth

since we do reside within the atomosphere distance of the Sun and that same thing

of which'great power causes the sun to go poof'surely would destroy the Earth as well. By the way the sun has a hot riotous atmosphere called the corona that reaches from the sun's surface past Earth all the way to Pluto and beyond.

The corona is seen seldom only during a total eclipse but it is there. To be more accurate the Earth wouldn't immediately fly out

if the sun lost its mass instantly; it would continue to orbit its current trajectory for about 8 minutes as not even the effects of gravity move faster than light.

Immediate death is not in the sun's future since it is a star. Currently scientists have deduced that our sun is 4. 5 billion years old

and is about at its midlife. Like all stars as the hydrogen fuel in the core is used up the outer parts of the Sun will begin to expand.

The Sun will turn from a yellow dwarf then into a red giant. By the time it is 10 billion years old it will have transitioned into a red giant

and its atmosphere will stretch out to near where the Earth is located and will almost engulf it in its orbit.

and the Sun will be at the center of a planetary nebula. The odds of humans creating a black hole On earth is more likely than the sun suddenly poof is off.

Do not fear the sun but fear humanity as our future killer. DCRANE:..as not even the effects of gravity move faster than light.

On the contrary: Gravity operates outside of space time. Its effect is instantaneous -otherwise you would have celestial objects orbiting each other based upon where they'used'to be.

and both are orbiting the Sun . If the Sun disappeared Earth's trajectory would immediately change.

Any object that is in the path of this new trajectory would suddenly fall into Earth's gravity

If the sun went poof the gravity goes poof and it's instantaneous as gravity is constrained not by the speed of light.

For example even though the Sun is 500 light seconds from the Earth newtonian gravity describes a force On earth directed towards the Sun's position now not its position 500 seconds ago.

In the case of a disappearing sun (whatever that even really means; it's hard to discuss physics problems

'but let's consider that'poof'=the sun flies away from the solar system at some absurd speed close to the speed of light) the sun's velocity is not constant anymore so you cannot continue to use the'basically instantaneous'argument.

but during that 8 minutes it would be orbiting as normal in that it wouldn't'lag'behind the sun.*Another way of looking at your discrepancy is to remind you all that relativity does away with an ABSOLUTE frame of reference.

To say the the Earth would fly off the exact moment the sun'poofed'is meaningless for no such objective moment exists.

I apologize for this gigantic comment but it really is a very difficult concept to wrap our heads around.

it's physically impossible for the sun to ever just go'poof'via some hypothetical evil Zeno and his magical death ray.

This does not mean Earth experiences a frame delay and orbits an 8-minute old sun position;

'Very high orbits (in the range of 100.000 of km) actually will become more'round'as the nonlinear effects of the sun's gravity field fall away.

-Of course according to science the sun would never just disappear into nothing so his disappearing act would violate most conservation laws

and faster than light is no more fantasious that supposing that the sun itself would disappear with no trace.

But if the sun just stopped existing and that were the only violation to science then:

and that earth actually rotates not around sun but nearly around the sun was 8 minutes in the past.

Gravity doesnã¢Â#Â#t operate outside space time but is distorted space time. 2-The Moon would continue rotating around Earth with little change.

Both the Earth and Moon are on free fall around the sun so the sun doesnã¢Â#Â#t affect much of the internal working of the system.

and a little slower around earth orbit depending on his distance to sun but the effect is small.

For that reason most satellites would not change his orbit near Earth except the ones linked to Earth-Sun lagrange points.

dissappearing sun is not impossible-imagine some unknown dimensional rift or alien tech that simply relocates sun in a blink of a eye.

While nature wont survive-humans will at least a portion of us. We are evolved enough to survive in freezing climate.

The article is about the heat from the sun hypothetically disappearing. The last paragraph about the mass of the sun being affected is really the cause of all the confusion.

It's a bit of an unnecessary tangent and might actually make for a good follow-up article.

I would have preferred that the author answered the original question Ã¢Â#Âoeif the sun went outã¢Â#Â

Assuming you stop eating at the point the sun stops shining Ã¢Â#Âwhich would be the case for some of us Ã¢Â#Âhow long would it take to starve

but then that would be gone say a few months after the sun stopped shining at which point the human death rate would quickly accelerate and at

So by the end of the second year after the sun stops shining (more or less) all humans will be dead

if the sun stops shining so the mere Ã¢Â#Âoeexistenceã¢Â#Â of that technology would not be our salvation other than to be useful to some

and light from the sun in near-instantaneous fashion it's not hard to visualize something highly improbable yet entirely consistent with the laws of physics.

(so that they aren't initially blocking any significant amount of heat/light from the Sun)

and then all rotated to have their major planar surfaces facing towards the center of the Sun. With a proper arrangement

and timing the net effect as seen from the Earth is that the Sun simply turns off in an incredibly short period of time (just long enough for each of the panels to rotate 90 degrees)

the Sun could be made to turn off in a few moments for all practical purposes as far as the Earth is concerned.

not that we could do anything about it anyway) Wouldn't that have some of the effects of the Sun going out?

despite no radiation from the Sun reaching the planet ever again. Tough but doable. The caveats in that previous paragraph are the much larger obstacles to overcome in my opinion.

Maybe we should devise a plan to turn off the sun would you suggest that? We need photosynthesis without it we all die.

If the sun stopped shining there would be widespread global panic and confusion it would NOT be business as usual.

I KING YA OVER THE SUN! AND DONT LOOK BACK! JACK BARRAC! YER HAIGS YER MACKKED DEATH BARRAK!

He needs to get right on to regulating the Sun Volcanic eruptions and the Electromagnetic Field. They have been causing far too much climate change

Climatologists understand the effect the Sun has on our climate and it's minor compared to

Though immensely powerful (we're talking two 10-mile wide boulders each with the mass of our sun) the collision would only have been visible from Earth for about a day

Maybe not if it happened to a location close to the Sun during daylight during summer

The fog clouds and hot sun follow each other in quick succession. The heavy rainfall insures permanent stagnant water where the larvae of the yellow fever

The nanostructured black silicon coating features very low reflectivity meaning that a larger portion of the Sun's radiation can be exploited.

Plants in full sun absorb red light while shaded plants receive only the leftover far-red light. The type of light the phytochrome sees tells the plant

By mutating the phytochromes we created plants that think they're in full sun even when they're not Vierstra says.

#Innovative solar-powered toilet ready for India unveilinga revolutionary University of Colorado Boulder toilet fueled by the sun that is being developed to help some of the 2. 5 billion people around the world lacking safe and sustainable

The energy generated by the sun and transferred to the fiber-optic cable system--similar in some ways to a data transmission line--can heat up the reaction chamber to over 600 degrees Fahrenheit to treat the waste material disinfect pathogens in both feces and urine and produce char.

Its developers foresee electrical generators driven by changes in humidity from sun-warmed ponds and harbors.

when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow and we have no good way of storing enough of it to supply the grid for long said Wyss Institute Founding Director Don Ingber M d. Ph d

Plant types Soil composition Slope of the soil Sun exposure The type of irrigation you're using (hose versus sprinkler versus drip lines, etc.

IBM analytics technology helps Sun World use drip irrigation to decrease its water usage by 8. 5%.That difference is readily apparent in a new agribusiness case study that was brought to my attention by the IBM mid-market group.

It involves Sun World International, a midsize operation in Bakersfield, Calif, . that produces various fruits and vegetables on approximately 12,000 acres of farmland across the state of California.

Sun World has been collecting information about its business for years. An example: The company has been acting on its water consumption to change irrigation techniques,

Sun World, which specializes in table grapes, peppers, stone fruits and citrus varieties, can now look at everything from unit costs

according to IBM and Sun World. Fuel usage has also been cut by 20 percent. The sales team can also use Sun World's data in conjunction with industry buying trends to figure out the best timing for campaigns.

This has helped with balancing product mix. It also resulted in $3 million in new business in 2009

Sun World is tracking $175 million in total annual revenue, according to Robertson. The plan is only as good as Day One.

Steve Greenwood, Sun World's director of budgets and reporting, says the technology behind these changes was Cognos,

Sun World worked with an IBM Business Partner Applied Analytix, to craft the solution. Here's his perspective from the IBM press release about the solution:

director of business analytics for IBM, says there are typically three things that hold entrepreneurs back from a technology investment like this that could yield results similar to the Sun World example.

If you want to be generate results like Sun World, you'll need to get over all three things