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- inactive, on 08/01/2008, -14/+39yeah! Since this made the front page yesterday, let's do it again!
- eraser34, on 08/01/2008, -2/+12"enough energy pours down from the sun in one hour to power the planet's energy needs for a year. "
Really? Holy crap, we need to find a way to tap more solar energy. - deviouskoopa, on 08/01/2008, -3/+12Karamu, fiesta, forever...
Come on and sing along!
All night long! (all niiiiiiight) - Koookie, on 08/01/2008, -1/+10*Cheers* for redundancy!
- durruticolumn, on 09/18/2009, -0/+9
Worldwide consumption equals 0.471 Zetajoules of power. Total solar energy available to the earth is 3850 Zetajoules. Winds can theoretically supply 6 Zetajoules of energy.
That means that Solar currently provides 8174.1x our current global consumption, and Wind provides 12.74x our current global consumption. And then there's geothermal, hydroelectric, ocean waves, etc. All the (effectively) free energy we need is out there, we just have to grab it. - griz, on 08/01/2008, -6/+14Too bad it will never see the light of day. (Pun not intended until I "Saw what I did there.")
- ralphodog, on 08/01/2008, -2/+10Holy *****! Two massive developments in solar energy in the time of one week? This is amazing.
- em00guy, on 08/01/2008, -1/+9Now we need congress to stop worrying about airplane cell phone usage and extend the alternative energy tax credit so we can build a proper clean energy infrastructure.
- marktastic, on 08/01/2008, -2/+8I think MIT is a pretty cool guy. eh kills aleins and doesn't afraid of anything.
- CobaltBlue, on 08/01/2008, -0/+6You would be amazed at the number of things we have no idea how they work.
- spoonchucks, on 08/01/2008, -0/+6What's that, some kind of WINE/GNU-style acronym?
- spoonchucks, on 08/01/2008, -4/+10Cry about him crying about it, will ya?
- JKap, on 08/01/2008, -1/+6I guess Al Gore and his Planeteers will be promoting this story in the "mainstream" media.
Of course, I could be wrong. - Narcism, on 08/01/2008, -1/+6??
- DiscoLando, on 08/01/2008, -1/+5It seems every potential solution is perpetually 5-10 years away. Is there anything exciting happening tomorrow? Next month? Next year?
- hexydes, on 08/01/2008, -5/+9It's too bad we couldn't find a way to generate energy based on the number of times this story hits the front page, because I'm pretty sure we would have lots of energy if we could do that.
- deviouskoopa, on 08/01/2008, -0/+4It's all in good fun, I hate being serious most of the time. I thought it was perfectly placed but I guess not...
No love for Lionel :( - eraser34, on 08/01/2008, -0/+4That truly is amazing. Its too bad that we are only doing something about it NOW rather than a few decades ago.
- NecroSexy, on 08/01/2008, -0/+3The article still green in the diggers' memory.
- sanman, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3All night long!
Whoo baby! - vajra918, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3So does the catalytic converter bolted to the bottom of your Toyota Carola. It's all about quantity.
- BulgyMoose, on 08/01/2008, -0/+3Bummer about the dupe but hats off the kid from MIT. Awesome
- DiscoLando, on 08/01/2008, -0/+3Well, it could certainly be worse.
- webcrumb, on 08/01/2008, -0/+3LOLOL
- aznpwnzor, on 08/01/2008, -0/+3its like the xna acronym
- Zaxcomp, on 08/01/2008, -2/+5Rock Band 2 is coming out soon.
- backseatchris, on 08/01/2008, -1/+4"For six months now I've been looking at the leaves and saying 'I own you guys!'"
You will be eating these words when the plants read this article and there is some sort of "Happening". - inactive, on 08/01/2008, -2/+5*Cheers* for redundancy!
- inactive, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2There is this little blue pill that makes it last all night long, why is this news?
- cnosal, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2The point is they found a better catalyst, so now electrolysis can be done with cheaper materials (platinum is the typical catalyst). RTA.
- zip000, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2Sure, just say "lol"
There. You just LOLOLed. - SmokinOkie, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2gay
- inactive, on 08/01/2008, -1/+3Speak for yourself.
- erichw1504, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2Dugg for making me LOL.
Buried for getting that song stuck in my head. - rento, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2How much energy will the solar panes provide?? They are not very efficient yet and such a prospect is possible but how feasible is it??
- imightbewrong, on 08/01/2008, -1/+3well when the story was on the front page 12 hours ago no one feels the need to comment
- cnosal, on 08/01/2008, -1/+3Every solution is '5 to 10 years away' because these articles are about a breakthrough in a lab, and it always takes years to get from the lab to consumers. You typically don't hear about all the little steps in between, and then suddenly you see it at Home Depot.
- Serphyas, on 08/01/2008, -1/+3GET A CLUE. 99.9% of Digg doesn't give a ***** about the submitter of a story.
- LeeSoong, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2YOU CAN DO IT !
- gn0stik, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2I threw up a little in my mouth. Easily the worst movie I've ever paid money to see.
I dugg you anyway. - DrJG, on 08/05/2008, -0/+2Thank you, kineticworm, for reference to a wonderful article.
- gn0stik, on 08/01/2008, -1/+3Catalysis is not electrolysis. That's the whole point of the article. That he's found a much cheaper and efficient way to crack water.
- Janizzary, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2Platinum?! This operation needs platinum?! I thought they said it's affordable!
- backseatchris, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2I agree with you. Probably one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time.
- gn0stik, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2Dude's a professor.
- griz, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2Interesting, you probably could have spent your time typing something useful as well.
- Plasmodia, on 08/01/2008, -1/+2Sunlight can be converted into electricity using photovoltaics (PV), concentrating solar power (CSP), and various experimental technologies. PV has mainly been used to power small and medium-sized applications, from the calculator powered by a single solar cell to off-grid homes powered by a photovoltaic array. For large-scale generation, CSP plants like SEGS have been the norm but recently multi-megawatt PV plants are becoming common. Completed in 2007, the 14 MW power station in Clark County, Nevada and the 20 MW site in Beneixama, Spain are characteristic of the trend toward larger photovoltaic power stations in the US and Europe. So just use solar energy in the day and sleep at night and dont use it in the night.
- webcrumb, on 08/01/2008, -1/+2I'm not sure whether to, but I will. This is so you know I have reservations, unlike another digger who will post it out of spite.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=pu ... - inactive, on 08/02/2008, -1/+2We don't even have a solid grasp on how oil is created, yet we run our planet on it...
- inactive, on 08/02/2008, -1/+2The department of redundancy department thanks you...
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