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Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. (KHI) will begin manufacturing versions of the Gigacell bipolar NiMH industrial battery—originally targeted for grid applications such as output smoothing for wind and solar—for transportation applications, beginning with systems for rail applications, according to a report in the Nikkei.
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Solar Power Game-Changer: Near Perfect Absorption of Sunlight, From All Angles :: Singularity Hub
A huge leap has been made in the creation of high efficiency, cost effective solar power with the announcement of the world’s first material that absorbs the entire spectrum of sunlight (UV, visible, and infrared) from virtually any angle with near 100% efficiency.
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Polarized light pollution leads animals astray
Human-made light sources can alter natural light cycles, causing animals that rely on light cues to make mistakes when moving through their environment
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Polar Sea Ice Cap and Snow – Cryosphere Today
A webspace devoted to the current state of our arctic and antarctic sea ice including an archive of daily polar sea ice cap concentrations (1979 – present)
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If you
teach about weather, climate, or the Earth, this site has wonderful images to
make the concepts real. See current and archived images of the polar ice in the
northern hemisphere and follow the data tracking on the changes over many
years. There are also graphs of the data and time-lapse video clips of the
changes over six year periods. (See the small text links near the top—easy to
miss).– post by bigfellow
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.