Scientists are gathered this week to discuss a relatively underappreciated threat to our well-being, the impact a huge solar flare (also known as a solar mass ejection (SME) or solar electromagnetic pulse (EMP)) directed at Earth could wreak upon our modern technology.
First Solar was mass producing panels with an average efficiency of nearly 13% by the end of 2012.
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The twisted magnetic fields can snap back and explode, powering solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
Toyota is the largest automaker to incorporate solar power into a mass-produced car.
Astronauts would also be bombarded with solar energetic particles, which get accelerated close to the sun as a result of solar flares and coronal mass ejections that shoot portions of the sun into space.
Luckily, there is already a successful template for how to stimulate mass-market solar adoption.
Then in September, 2009, Nanosolar announced that it was starting to mass produce its solar panels.
More than 90 percent of these jobs will be in the private sector, jobs rebuilding our roads and bridges, constructing wind turbines and solar panels, laying broadband and expanding mass transit.
The renewable industry revolves around developing and mass manufacturing technologies efficient turbines, solar panels to harvest somewhat limitless, omnipresent natural resources.
But any new solar technology takes a lot of time and money to develop and bring to mass production, and producing it in large volumes is crucial for lowering production costs.
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Epstein promises that solar panel makers will be able to produce panels with a 25% boost consistently during mass production.
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Meanwhile, solar is posting these sorts of enormous gains every month as it climbs the exponential curve to mass adoption.
While solar energy isn't viable in rainy Seattle, Microsoft employees also enjoy free access to mass transit and company-subsidized hybrid cars.
Even though the black hole contains a mass equal to a billion suns, it is compacted into an area about the size of the solar system.
Some galaxies contain black holes with billions of times the mass of the sun, occupying a volume no bigger across than the orbit of Neptune around our solar system but extending their influence through a cosmic bubble 30 million light years across.
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