On 12/7/10 Zhengrong Shi, the founder and CEO of Suntech, one of the largest PV manufacturers in the world spoke at MIT, which has about 45 faculty now involved in solar research. The event was a joint presentation of the MIT China Energy and Environment Research Group, MIT Energy Initiative, and MIT Energy Club.
My telegraphic notes follow.
Vampires are among us. When you aren't looking (or, when you are looking but not seeing), when you are sleeping, when you aren't paying attention, Vampires are sucking up vital juices, threatening our very existence.
For Halloween, kill some Vampires and contribute to defeating the invasion of Climate Zombies!
Last evening, my better 95+% was flipping through the channels and received the rare: stop, go back to that. What was that? A Nissan "innovation" advertisement in which the Nissan Leaf played a prominent roll, "if you never needed to buy another gallon of gas ..."
Watching this well-done advertisement made me think of Who Killed The Electric Car? and how GM used black-and-white anti-promoting advertising in relation to the EV-1 (See after the fold for examples.)
While the above ad captured me, within the diary is an ad that truly matters on multiple levels.
Asteroids can Kill. No doubt about it.
Just ask the Dinosaurs!
Anyone unfortunate enough to be stuck in the path of one --
doesn't really stand a chance.
Unless that "Someone" happens to have the Intellect,
to channel, and re-direct the immense power of Nature,
towards a Better Outcome.
That someone, should be Us.
Mirror satellites 'could divert asteroid'
The best way to divert an asteroid from a potentially catastrophic collision course with Earth is to deploy a "swarm" of mirror-bearing satellites to focus a beam of sunlight onto its surface, scientists say.
Is there a bigger lesson here?
"Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth."
Of course Archimedes was well versed in the principles of Physics,
and the prime mover in the concept of ... Levers ...