lights serve as sentries where U.S. Marines once faced-off along the Cuban frontier. A team of Navy cops now rides bikes rather than gas-guzzling patrol cars in the searing Caribbean sunshine.

use solar power for their electricity needs.

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=solar+power+generators&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1024&bih=673&ix=sea&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=429563108564061348&sa=X&ei=zIU0T_2iAery2QW9z7yWAg&ved=0CIgBEPMCMAE
Its cheaper and it reduces air polution

Would solar power work in Scotland? It’s not sunny most of the time so would it not work? I have to do a project for school on energy that does not contribute to the green house grass effect and have picked solar energy. I know that it is intermittent and so we can’t rely on it, but if we invest in capacitors or some kind of energy store it could work. Can someone please help me?! Thanks!

Hey everybody!!!!!

I have an idea, see today me and my wife thought up a good idea. We were probably thinking of investing in Lock-head Martin ( aircraft company). See our idea is of a flying Wagon about 5 feet wide, and 4 feet in length. Behind the huge wagon will be a huge board (picture). On that picture will be a whole group of people (people holding water,someone with a rope…etc.). Above the huge board will be a row of lights. (by the way, the wagon wouldn’t have a pulley.) See…the whole point of the project will be to trick people stranded on an island, or in the ocean. It will be Solar powered,and it will float like a air balloon. Last but not least, on the billboard of fake people, it will have the slogan; ” Oh, you thought we were help?”….What does everyone think of this?

Vehicle) is made from an aluminum structure with flexible thin-film Solar Panels wrapped around it. The back folds up to let a driver squeeze into the diminutive bulge in the center. The SPV is …

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President Obama’s glaring ignorance of the economic consequences of his energy policy will doom a central theme in his State of the Union speech: his “Blueprint for an America Built to Last” plan to boost manufacturing jobs.

Obama revealed in his speech that his command-and-control energy policy will now emphasize the use of natural gas to compliment his renewable energy push to generate electricity. Notably absent from Obama’s “all of the above” energy strategy is coal, which currently provides about 45 percent of our nation’s electricity.

In classic Obama heavy-handed style, the President is using the regulatory power of the EPA to manipulate the free market to favor natural gas and renewable energy by regulating coal-fired electricity out of existence.

Obama’s blunder is ignoring the transition cost of eliminating about half of the country’s cheap and dependable source of electricity. Higher energy costs resulting from the shift from coal to Obama’s choice of electricity generation will drain the disposable income of consumers and, most important, be a huge barrier to the creation of new manufacturing jobs.

The EPA’s war against coal is already making electricity prices skyrocket. The compliance costs associated with the agency’s Cross State Air Pollution and Utility MACT rules are forcing coal-fired utilities to close and electricity prices to rise across the country.

Ohio-based utility First Energy, for example, recently announced it was going close six coal-fired power plants due to the costs associated with EPA regulations. The reduction in the supply of power is expected to almost double electricity prices.

An UBS stock analyst estimated the rates for power would rise to $200 per megawatt per day from $126. An analyst from a different firm predicted rates could go as high as $500.

American Electric Power (AEP), another Ohio-based utility with a heavy reliance on coal, was given permission from the Public Utility Commission of Ohio (PUC) to recover the costs of complying with the EPA’s rules, including transitioning its facilities from coal to natural gas. The plan also allows AEP to recover investments is solar power.

The price tag of the new compliance plan is estimated to be $6 to $8 billion. While the deal is good for AEP, the same can’t be said of the hardworking families and businesses that will be forced to pay for Obama’s energy policy.

With coal-fired utilities already on the regulatory ropes, the EPA is setting them up for a knockout punch. According to news reports, the agency is close to releasing a new regulation targeting greenhouse gas emissions for the utility sector

Before going away, a very dear friend of mine gave me a “rainbow maker” as a gift.

The thing is, my little brother got it to fall on the floor and the crystal broke! It’s a swarovski crystal and I wonder if it is possible to replace it and how much it costs.
The crystal is about 3cm (1.18 inches).

It would really mean a lot to repair the little machine, since it’s a very precious gift.

In this link you can see what I’m talking about:
http://www.kikkerland.com/products/solar-powered-rainbowmaker-with-swarovski-crystal/

Thank you in advance

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I’m doing a project in science where we must come up with an innovated solution to global warming (my idea would reduce CO2 emissions). While I’m sure this idea has been done and is relatively small, it doesn’t not need to be the key answer and any help will do. My idea is solar powered school and public buses. I know solar powered public buses exist, but I’ve never seen the same for school buses.

What do you think? I know it’s not creative, but I need to think of something so I can work on it tomorrow in class. Here’s the thing: buses are already reducing emissions by transporting more the one person and taking cars off the road, so are having them solar powered that worth it? (I’m completely contradicting what I said above).

Thanks
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Sorry, sorry! Not reduce, just provide an different solution for the energy source.
Well, if the idea is not practical and joke worthy, what IS a solution that would be effective?

my bestfriend is looking for one, and she gets all upset when she sees one of those flowers sitting in the dashboard in a parked car, and the flower is just waving its leaves. she wants one of those and im planning on getting her one of those. i saw a youtube video and it says that dollar tree has some, are there any other places that sell these??

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I have a solar powered car that uses a solar panel (about 10″x4″) to power a dc motor. I need to find a way of improving the power output. I already know that adding mirrors will help, but is there anything else i can do? I came up with the idea of putting a capacitor in parallel with the motor, will it help? If so, what capacitance should I use?
I was thinking of adding a capacitor because the motor is brushed, so it doesn’t drain electricity for small periods of time while running. During these periods, the capacitor would charge and then discharge into the motor when it turns a few more degrees, therefore acting as a buffer and allowing more of the electricity from the solar panel to be used.
Is that true or is there something wrong with my logic or is there something I missed.

3. Julio the entrepreneur takes 2 hours to cut a lawn, and cuts 1,000 per year. He uses solar-powered equipment (truck and mower) that will last forever and could be sold at any time for $20,000. Julio could earn $12 per hour as a pedicurist. The interest rate is 10 percent. (20 points)

a. Given his current output level, compute his marginal cost and average cost of cutting lawns. (5 points)

b. Suppose he decides to reduce the number of lawns cut by half, to 500 per year. Compute the new marginal cost and average cost.

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