Today: Wise PC Engineer 6.3.3 - Wise PC Engineer is a bundle of most important system utilities for performing different tasks on your PC. It will ... HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works! John Michael Talbot. Pandora Internet Radio - Find New Music, Listen to Free Web Radio. [1103.1373] Causality-Violating Higgs Singlets at the LHC. GSR-110B Mobile Power Unit With A Retractable Solar Panel. By Andrew Liszewski What a difference a weekend can make. I came across this mobile power unit last week and kind of put it on the back burner, but after the events that have unfolded in Japan over just the past few days it seems like it could be one of the most useful tools for many parts of the country. Created by OS, a Japanese company with an expertise in retractable projector screens, the GSR-110B uses flexible solar cells developed by Fuji Electric Systems to create a mobile power unit that can be deployed in just seconds.
At just 3kg the GSR-110B is lightweight and easy to transport, but thanks to its retractable solar panel it can be set up anywhere, providing up to 40W off power in the right weather conditions. (16W directly from the solar panel itself, plus an additional 24W from the unit’s built-in rechargeable battery.) That’s enough juice to keep a netbook running for about two hours, and is definitely enough to charge a mobile phone. Earth's gravity shaped like a potato - Technology & Science. Scientists have unveiled the most accurate map of the Earth's gravity ever produced, which shows it to be shaped not like a sphere but a potato. The new data is expected to improve our understanding of how the Earth works and improve predictions regarding the impacts of climate change. Also known as a geoid, the map is the result of two years of orbital surveys by the European Space Agency (ESA) Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite.
Professor Reiner Rummel, former Head of the Institute for Astronomical and Physical Geodesy at Technische Universität München in Germany says GOCE provides dynamic topography and ocean circulation patterns with unprecedented quality and resolution. "The GOCE geoid will improve our understanding of Earth's internal structure. " The GOCE satellite uses a gravity gradiometer to detect fine differences in the Earth's crust and oceans. "With each new two month cycle, our GOCE gravity field model is getting better and better". It's Not Your Imagination: The Number Of Disasters Just Keeps Rising.