Posts Tagged ‘Solar Freeloader’

Top 5 Environmentally Friendly Countries

Friday, January 8th, 2010 by macinger84

picture credited to Julie McLaughlin

With the rising concern for global warming issues, government officials are prompted to resort to eco friendly measures at their respective countries or area of responsibility. Thankfully, many countries responded to the call to turn green. However, the following ten countries are the ones that rose above the rest when it comes to an overall healthy water resource, environmental condition, and clean air.

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The Middle Star

Thursday, January 7th, 2010 by macinger84

The sun is a star in the center of the universe. Research suggests that it was created by shockwaves from an exploding star or supernovae. It is made mostly of hydrogen and helium gases. It is not solid but does have an inner core. The energy radiated from the sun comes from the nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium. The helium is turned to ash as 700 million tons of hydrogen burn every second. The inner core produces up to 15,000,000 K. ‘K’ represents a Kelvin, a unit measurement of thermal temperature. A 0 Kelvin is equal to a -273.15 degrees Celsius.

It uses convection, a type of kinetic energy (use of motion and velocity to create acceleration) to transfer the heat from the core through the layers of its photosphere (the outside area where the gases are cool enough to be seen) and chromo sphere (the area above its photosphere) to its corona (the oblique surface we see). The energy in its core takes an estimated 1 million years to reach a photosphere that maintains a temperature up to 6,000 degrees Celsius. The pressure created on the sun is 340 times greater than that on earth.

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Free Loader – Portable Solar Energy

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 by Chav

blogFreeloader Solar powered chargers – Charge your gadgets and batteries on the move.

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