Word: nsi
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...NSI is solar power with a twist: it harnesses the heat of the sun, not just its light. Instead of directly converting sunlight into electricity with photovoltaic panels - the kind you might see on rooftops - solar thermal uses rows of specially curved parabolic mirrors to focus sunlight on a pipe full of synthetic oil. The sun's energy superheats the oil, which is then used to boil water into steam. The steam runs turbines, which generates electricity. The technology is as simple as any fossil fuel plant, and cheaper by material than the technologically complex photovoltaic panels...
...words of MY favorite poet, Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi þor Birgisson: “[Long, drawn-out silence. Very drawn-out.]” What does it mean to be a poet, or, better yet, what is prose poetry? Is this it? Nope, because I can’t write good, and that’s got to be a part...
...never seen the band before, and given the fact that most people picture non-Björk Icelanders to be bearded wanderers of the fjördlands, I wasn’t prepared for the fact that frontman Jónsi þor Birgisson is actually a skinny, clean-shaven little guy with a silly, pomade-induced flip in his bangs. But that youthful aspect was what gave him such gravity...