Solar cycle

The Hunt for Planet X Ever since the proposition of a ninth planet within our solar system by Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo in 2014 (Hunt 1) the hunt has been on for the elusive object. The use of extreme Kuiper Belt objects (eKBOs) which are objects believed to not be significantly influenced by Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, contributed to the idea of another object in the solar system influencing them (Malhotra 1). The study of the eKBOs orbit around our sun lead to the…

The Solar Energy Investment Tax Credit is a very important federal policy to promote solar energy in the United States. In 2015, the Solar Energy Industries Association advocated for the extension of the renewable tax credit to increase the investments in the solar and wind industry in order to provide business certainty to investors and project developers. The solar power industry expected the tax credits to expire in January 1, 2015. The Solar Investment Tax Credit is continuing to drive…

power is better than most of our current means of power. Solar power is already implemented in everyday things. For example, ever notice new street lights or new crosswalk traffic signs? Notice the small black panels on the tops of those? That 's solar power, and it 's in places you wouldn 't even think. Some franchises, like Target, have some of their buildings powered with solar power, by having dozens of solar panels on their roofs! Solar power is a form of energy that is better for the…

Climatic Deviations Lead to Conflict Scholarships associating environmental stress to conflicts begun to emerge in the 1980s (Myers 1986, Mathews 1989, Bekure 1989, Christiansson and Tobisson 1989, Ornas 1989, Prah 1989, Mascarenhas 1989). One study considered that watersheds, croplands, climate, and other factors that seldom figure in the minds of political leaders rank alongside military approaches as crucial to a nation 's security (Myers 1986). Another postulated that environmental strains…

When you hear the word "Tesla", what comes to mind? Let me guess,....cars, right? Well, that was the answer I was hoping you were thinking about and the direction I knew you were headed towards. This idea of Tesla being closing connected with cars has been an "ideal" concept that has been implanted in our minds from generations to generations. We have tagged these two together so that we are able to easily associate them with being involved in the automotive industry. It is a fact that Tesla,…

space, to create as little contact with the forms of bacteria as possible (Krishen 5). Another area of crew safety that is to be improved upon is with protection from solar radiation, currently, gold foiling is in use to protect the astronauts from the solar radiation, although the gold foiling does a mediocre job at repelling the solar radiation it can…

The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Nuclear Energy is a book that presents a definitively anti-fossil fuels stance on renewable energy written by Lester Brown, a lauded environmental scientist with more than 50 years of experience in the field of renewable energy who is certainly qualified to write about the topic. In the first half of the book, he discusses why society should phase out usage of fossil fuels, especially coal, as quickly as possible in order to prevent…

Is Global Climate Change a Hoax? Are humans to blame for the Ice capes melting and rapid changes in our weather patterns? What motivated President Elect Donald Trump to say that global climate change is a hoax. The present environmental warming trend is a huge topic today and an issue that raises great debate around the world. The earth is home to billions of humans, plants and animals, we all need the earth to sustain life. Therefore, the wellbeing of this planet is of major concern. This essay…

being converted to a usable source of electricity with the use of photovoltaic cells/modules, also called solar cells/modules. One spaceship, called the ISS, uses decades old solar cells which convert 14% of the sun’s energy into electricity which shows its (the Sun’s light) strength, but the main question spaceship builders want to know is “Where is the edge of sunlight?”, aka where does the solar energy fall off so much that it is no longer useful to harness. Another path of research that…

why renewable energy sources have become more important these days. Few other Reasons include advantages like abundant availability in nature, eco-friendly and recyclable. Many Renewable energy sources like solar, wind, hydel and tidal are there. Among these renewable sources solar and wind energy are the world’s fastest growing energy resources. With No emission of pollutants, energy conversion is done through wind and PV cells. Day by day, the demand for electricity is rapidly increasing.…