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Oil-Rich Saudis Go Solar
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Saudi Arabia, the world's leading oil producer, has just built a huge solar power plant. Is the country going "green"--or are they running out of oil? They plan to use it to generate one third of their electricity needs by 2032.
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When the Sun Goes Crazy
Monday, March 25, 2013
It's happened before: In 1859, sunspots erupted, causing sparks in telegraph offices that set paper on fire. Today, 150 years later, we are much MORE "wired," and sun...
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We're Not Ready
Sunday, February 10, 2013
The British Royal Academy of Engineering has completed a study of the UK power grid showing that it is relatively well prepared to weather a solar superstorm--but the opposite is true in the United States.
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The End of the World: Fire or Water?
Friday, December 21, 2012
How will the world end? It may not end today, but it WILL end someday. After Noah's ark finally reached land, God promised Noah that he would not flood the earth again, that it would be "the fire next time," and despite the rising ocean levels due to glacier melt, Whitley Strieber thinks this may be true. Read all about it in his...
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Fire or Water?
Friday, December 14, 2012
How will the world end? It may not end on December 21st, but it WILL end someday. After Noah's ark finally reached land, God promised Noah that he would not flood the earth again, that it would be "the fire next time," and despite the...
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How the Sun Changes History
Thursday, December 6, 2012
People who don't know their history are fated to repeat their mistakes. It has always been assumed by solar scientists that our sun does not emit the same sort of superflares seen bursting out of similar stars. But now it appears that the sun did emit a superflare in 774 AD, and,...
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How the Sun Affects Our Weather
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
We know that the sun is only partly the cause of climate change (most of it, alas, is caused by us), but periodic solar flares (or coronal mass ejections--CMEs) can have profound "space weather" effects on...
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Spinach Goes Solar
Monday, September 24, 2012
Can you eat too many vegetables? (Yes, you can--and if you've gotten fat from eating "good" food, you should know that Anne Strieber did too, and she wrote a diet book about...
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Strange Formation on the Sun
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
A mysterious dark band has appeared on the surface of the sun that is almost 500 miles long and is getting bigger every day. Astrophysicists think it's a cluster of dense cold gas. The formation may look dark because it's so much colder than the surface of the sun.
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SECOND Gigantic Power Failure Hits India
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
A second huge power outage across India left 600 million people sweltering in the dark. Gigantic traffic jams, stalled railway trains, closed airports and a general failure of infrastructure services have followed in the wake of what is now the largest power failure in history. Power is being restored across the country at this time.
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How Sunshine Changes Us
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
It doesn't just bring us Vitamin D, it can affect all brain activity--including the central nervous system--leading to changes in human behavior. And the recent solar flares coming from the sun may lead to an even GREATER response than...
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It's Not the Sun, It's Us
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
NASA reports that a recent lull in the sun's activity did not prevent the Earth from absorbing more solar energy than could escape back into space. This means that climate change is mainly caused by...
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Is It a Natural Object, a Video Artifact or a UFO?
Monday, December 12, 2011
A passing coronal mass ejection from the sun caused an illumination response from an otherwise invisible object near Mercury that was captured both by NASA's Heliospheric Imager 1 satellite and by the SECCHI-A spacecraft. Initially, SECCHI staff explained it as a video afterimage of the planet on the...
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Cold Weather? Blame the Sun
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Can the sun cause cold weather? Cold winters that have dumped tons of snow on areas like the Northeastern US may have their origins in the sun's varying ultraviolet emissions. Recent satellite data shows that the sun's UV output is far more changeable than scientists had previously thought, and these changes lead to warmer winters in some places...
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Did Comet Cause Massive Solar Explosion on Oct. 1?
Monday, October 3, 2011
A few hours after a comet discovered by amateur astronomers on September 30 impacted the sun, a massive coronal mass ejection took place directly opposite theobject's impact point. Previously, solar...
Sun Storms May Become Stronger
Thursday, September 8, 2011
New research suggests solar storms could become more disruptive within decades, affecting things from cell phones to airplanes and spacecraft. In BBC News, Judith Burns quotes space physicist Mike Lockwood was saying, "All the evidence suggests that the Sun will shortly exit from a grand solar maximum that has persisted since before the start...
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Major Solar Flare Heading Our Way
Thursday, August 4, 2011
A near X-class solar flare that erupted on the sun on August 3rd has sent a powerful coronal mass ejection toward earth which has overtaken two previous CMEs and combined with them. Analysts at the GSFC Space Weather Lab believe that the combined triple-CME will reach earth around 6 AM US Pacific Time on August 5th, give or take a 7 hour window....
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It's Not Always What It Looks Like
Friday, July 22, 2011
See the beautiful ivy growing up that wall? On closer inspection, those leaves turn out to be--solar panels! And we may really need them soon, if sunspot activity turns off our electrical grids. This new product is called Solar Ivy and the first location in the United States to apply it is the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, because...
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Mysterious Particles are Coming From the Sun
Monday, June 6, 2011
A well-known characteristic of decaying matter--the rate of which has always been constant--has suddenly started behaving mysteriously, and this seems to be caused by a mysterious particle emanating from the sun. In recent years; the carbon decay rates of radioactive elements have begun changing: The decay rate is slightly faster in winter than in...
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The Sun May Influence our POLITICS
Monday, May 16, 2011
We know that the Sun has an effect on radioactive particles here on Earth. As the 2012 presidential election starts to heat up, we ask ourselves: Could the Sun also...
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Solar Flares may be Changing Radioactive Particles on Earth
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Researchers have discovered a link between solar flares and radioactive elements on Earth. Amazing as it sounds, the sun, 93 million miles away, seems to be influencing the decay of radioactive elements inside the Earth. David Sereda talks with William Henry...
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The Sun Wakes Up: What Will Happen to Us?
Thursday, February 17, 2011
A series of solar flares will hit the Earth over the next few days, which could cause disruptions in satellite transmissions, such as satellite TV, cell phone and GPS systems. Airplanes may have to change routes in order to continue to receive control tower transmissions....
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Sun Rises in Greenland 2 Days Early
Friday, January 14, 2011
In winter, Greenland is dark for months and this year the first, brief sunrise was expected on January 13. Instead, the sun rose at 12:56 PM on January 11. The precise reason for this remains unknown. There is no apparent astronomical cause, as the constellations, the moon and the sun appear to be in their usual positions in relation to earth. One...
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Sun Twin
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Throughout his long career, Zechariah Sitchin maintained that Nibiru existed, and now a new NASA probe seems about to prove him right. Our sun may have a companion that disturbs comets from the edge of the solar system--a giant planet with up to four times the mass of...
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Protect Us from the Sun
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Climate change is causing changes in our weather, but that's nothing compared to what's happening on the sun. Solar scientists say that the sun's magnetic field is weakening, and we are going to go into a long period of solar inactivity, but NASA remains worried enough about massive solar flares to begin working on a solar shield that will protect...
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Earth's Atmosphere Collapsed
Friday, October 1, 2010
Due to low sunspot activity - The Earth's atmosphere has collapsed. New discoveries show that it rises and falls in tandem with the Sun's cycle, and the sunspot cycle has been unusually weak lately (although it appears to be reactivating--or is it?).
Sunspots are set off by a magnetic field, and despite recent signs of...
Star Cycles
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Our sun isn't the only star that flares up into sunspots every 11 years. In a bid to unlock longstanding mysteries of the Sun, including the impacts on Earth of its 11-year cycle, an international team of scientists has successfully probed a distant star and found that it ALSO has an 11-year cycle.
The scientists studied a star known as...
Huge Solar Flares Predicted
Monday, August 30, 2010
The sun is back with a vengeance! - Solar flares are starting up again, after a long hiatus, and they are predicted to be extraordinary.
NASA warns that the recent massive flare wasn't an anomaly, it's just the beginning. A massive solar storm is building up that could even wipe out the Earth's entire power grid. Similar...
Solar Cycle Restarting
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
The solar cycle usually works like this: Every 11 years there is a period of intense solar activity. But the sun has been unusually quiet for years now. However, scientists have obtained evidence that a new cycle of solar activity is starting. The onset of a new wave of such activity had been expected to be well underway by 2009, but the Sun...
What's Going on with the Sun?
Monday, January 4, 2010
Will global warming continue in 2010? After a protracted quiet spell, the sun is waking up. So far, Solar Cycle 24 has been the quietest in a century, but December was the most active month of the cycle by far. The 11 year solar maximum should peak in late 2012, but with such a long, deep solar minimum, the peak could be delayed. There is...
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