Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are three major ways of harnessing sunlight directly; mechanical (concentrating the rays with parabolic reflectors); electrical (using photoelectric cells to convert light energy into electricity); chemical (imitating the natural photosynthesis of plants). Since plants themselves store solar energy, there is also the possibility of using plants themselves for fuel-e.g., powdered cornstalks instead of powdered coal. Last year sun-minded Mr. Cabot gave Harvard $615,773 for a long-range research program to increase the rate at which plants store solar energy (TIME, June...
...about 25 trillion miles. In 1915 Dr. Robert T. A. Innes of Johannesburg discovered, by parallax observations,* that a faint star near Alpha Centauri was only 4.16 light-years away. For 23 years, up to last week, that star, appropriately called Proxima Centauri, held rank as the No. 1 solar neighbor. Last week, from the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, it was announced that another faint star, Wolf 424† appears to be only 3.7 light-years distant. This is so close that a train traveling a thousand miles a day would get there...
...Nina Petrovna (Solar Films), a French picture, has all the panoply and poohbah of a Hollywood super-colossal. Nina is a Tsarist floozy who traipses to Vienna breaks several hearts, lies like a lady for the man she loves, fades out with a bullet in her heart. What distinguishes Nina Petrovna is that Nina is Junoesque Isa Miranda, whose gaunt loveliness combines the allure of Marlene Dietrich with the expressiveness of Greta Garbo. With Garbo vacationing on the Mediterranean (TIME, March...
...first experimental confirmation was the bending of starlight in the gravitational field of the sun, observed during a solar eclipse in 1919. Others are the "stretching" (increased wave length) of light from heavy stars, the conversion of mass into energy in the laboratory, the recoil of a body which emits light. Relativity also explains eccentricities in Mercury's orbit, which had remained a mystery under Newtonian mechanics. Atom-smashers who build cyclotrons (machines in which atomic projectiles are whirled by electric and magnetic fields) take into careful consideration the Relativistic increase in mass of fast particles. In brief, Relativity...
There is no practical reason now for harnessing the sun's energy. But should the problem become urgent, because of depletion of the earth's supply of coal and oil, it would be possible to use huge shallow tanks of water and carbon dioxide for solar power plants if a catalyst as good as or better than chlorophyll could be found. Meanwhile Dr. Baly is considered in many quarters to be the world's leader in artificial photosynthesis of organic substances...