Solar Panels in the Mojave Desert Overview In 1971‚ a husband and wife‚ Aden and Marjorie Meinel‚ patented an idea to produce solar panels in the Mojave Desert. The solar panels they proposed were to stretch through the Mojave Desert for 5‚000 miles and would collect 1‚000‚000 megawatts of electrical power. The electrical energy would then be stored in a manufacturing facility locally so that the solar energy could be converted and used by millions of people. The Meinel’s proposal was dismissed
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Common SAT Errors and How to Avoid Them (Holt) Thanks to Miriam Holt for contributing this post. She tutors students in New York‚ New Jersey‚ and Connecticut‚ both independently and with local tutoring agencies. She has prepared over a hundred students for the SAT in the past six years and humorously admits‚ "I have come to respect the SAT." This post addresses five SAT tasks that are pertinent to reading and writing. For each task‚ Miriam describes what she views as the most common types of errors;
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A prosperous money-lender or seth bought a house located right next door to the house of a tanner. From morning till evening the tanner converted hide into leather by treating it with tannin. From day one the money-lender was put off by the unpleasant smells of the tannery. So‚ he visited the tanner’s house and offered to buy his house. "I would love to sell the house if you buy it seth‚" said the tanner. He had no intention of doing any such thing but he liked to play pranks. "Give me a
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Eric Schlosser is indeed correct about the changing trends in marketing and advertising and I agree with him that there is an increased focus on children in advertising. This is clear from the kind of content that one is likely to watch on television nowadays where the content has been to a large scale focused towards things that are of interest to children. The question that one would ask from reading the article is whether the trend is right or whether the marketing companies are losing the right
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What I’d like to do this week is talk about another popular credo‚ one that plays a very large role in blinding people nowadays to the shape of the future looming up ahead of us all just now. In an interesting display of synchronicity‚ it came up in a conversation I had while last week’s essay was still being written. A friend and I were talking about the myth of progress‚ the facile and popular conviction that all human history follows an ever-ascending arc from the caves to the stars; my friend
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Using sources 1.1‚ 1.2 and 1.3 and your own knowledge‚ explain the changes in the solar cult before the reign of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten (10 marks – 800 words) In a land like Egypt where the sun was one of the two dominating forces of nature (the other being the Nile)‚ it was natural for the people to worship the sun as a god. Solar (sun) worship had been practiced throughout Egypt in one form or another since Predynastic times. Popular beliefs about the sun god varied from place to place as did
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Identification Ed Welsh and Bo Haeberle discovered an idea of the solar feeder. After years of developing‚ the product became very successful. It even won several prizes like the best new product in the Bird Watch America trade show‚ the national birding convention. After this‚ Ed and Bo decided to sell their final product under new established company Squirrel Defense‚ Inc. They opened a small shop in Greensboro and begin the production of the solar feeder so they could take orders for the demanded product
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Assignment – Renewable Energy For my Renewable Energy Summative Assignment I chose Solar Energy from Space. I chose this topic because I have always been interested in meteorites‚ stars‚ planets; anything in space has always sparked my curiosity. Therefore‚ I took the opportunity to learn more about the wonders of space and also to learn more about the solar energy process since we are using it more and more every day. Solar Energy from Space has evolved immensely in the past few years and has become one
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draw pictures. Immediately after these nine-minute assignments‚ the kids took mental function tests; those who had watched SpongeBob did measurably worse than the others. Previous research has linked TV-watching with long-term attention problems in children‚ but the new study suggests more immediate problems can occur after very little exposure — results that parents of young kids should be alert to‚ the study authors said. Kids’ cartoon shows typically feature about 22 minutes of action‚ so watching
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Talking the Kids 10/15/2013 Advertising towards kids is completely unethical‚ after reading the article from page 132 I began to think of my own child. I don’t understand how there are so many laws to protect are children but something like ads directed toward a child who is not mentally equipped to make an informed decision on what they are being sold is allowed. The article talked about how unhealthy foods that have little to no nutritional value are being directed towards kids and the
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