Archive for September 13th, 2012

Little Limit to the Amount of Wind Energy

Windmills in the ocean. Photo: Sergiy Serdyuk/iStockphotoOriginally Published by IEEE Spectrum - Two groups of scientists say we can take as much wind power as we need without changing the climate.

Posted on September 13th, 2012
Energy, Technology

New RBSP instrument telemetry provides ‘textbook’ excitement

- In the very early hours of Sept. 1 the team at the RBSP Mission Operations Center controlling spacecraft A at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory was about to power up that spacecraft's Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope.

Posted on September 13th, 2012
Technology

Winning Team, Runner Up Announced in Summer 2012 NASA DEVELOP Virtual Poster Session

Illustration of a satellite above the arctic. credit Chris McKeelResearch projects on disasters and ecological forecasting take top honors in our latest competition, with prizes from Esri. The presentations are two of 30 done by students from throughout North America, with winning and runner-up teams chosen by a panel of scientists.

Earthzine staff , posted on September 13th, 2012
DEVELOP Virtual Poster Session