The solar installation waiting game
Editor's Note: Scientific American 's George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar panels in 60-Second Solar . Read his introduction here and see all posts here.
Stories by George Musser
d'Espagnat takes big prize for work on quantum mechanics
Earlier this week, the Templeton Foundation announced the 2009 winner of its $1.4 million Templeton Prize, French physicist and philosopher Bernard d’Espagnat.
Are we freeloaders if we install solar?
Judging from responses to my earlier post, not everyone is happy about incentives for installing solar power. One person said the government shouldn’t encourage projects that don’t make financial sense on their own...
Before we began: A home energy audit, infrared scan and all
Editor's Note: Scientific American 's George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar panels in 60-Second Solar. Read his introduction here and see all posts here.
Early steps: Size matters when you're installing solar
Editor's Note: Scientific American's George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar panels in 60-Second Solar. Read his introduction here and see all posts here.
Introducing 60-Second Solar: A family installs panels on its roof
When I was a kid, energy was fun. I used to write to utility companies asking for their brochures on nuclear power and then sit and study the cutaway diagrams of reactors.
Space Exploration Sticker Shock--Economics at NASA
The laws of physics are easy; it's economics that vexes NASA
Background Radiation: Glow in the Dark
A second cosmic background radiation permeates the sky
Mystery Cosmic Static May Cast Light on Formation of First Stars
Researchers sifting through extragalactic radio emissions may have found a secondary background radiation
Which came first--galaxies or black holes?
LONG BEACH, CALIF.—One of the oddities of the universe revealed over the past decade is that galaxies and the giant black holes at their hubs fit together as if they were made for each other...
Did the universe mature at an early age?
LONG BEACH, CALIF.—You might think that the universe 11.5 billion years ago was in a more primitive state than it is today. Barely two billion years had passed since the big bang, our Milky Way galaxy was still taking shape, and billions more years would pass before the sun pulled itself together...
The Milky Weigh Galaxy
LONG BEACH, CALIF.—One of the unnerving aspects of astronomy as a science is how astronomers continue to argue over measurements you’d have thought they settled long ago.
New Quantum Weirdness: Balls That Don't Roll Off Cliffs
Quantum particles continue to behave in ways traditional particles do not
Is M. Night Shyamalan anti-scientific?
As part of the publicity for The Happening , writer-director M. Night Shyamalan gave a number of interviews to science journalists, including me, Andy Revkin, and Ira Flatow.
I See Doomed People
The director of The Happening, M. Night Shyamalan, talks about his scientific and environmental inspirations
A Science Fête
A celebration that seeks to reunite the Two Cultures
A Science Fête Project: A Q&A with Brian Greene
The World Science Festival—a celebration that seeks to reunite the Two Cultures
The big bang in musical form
I talked to string theorist Brian Greene earlier this afternoon about the upcoming World Science Festival, and he remarked about how many artists of all types, from painters to musicians to choreographers, have been inspired by scientific discoveries...
Relativity theory to the tune of "Yellow Submarine"
April Fool's Day was kind of a bust this year for science, but this makes up for it: The "paper" is here. -- Edited by gmusser at 04/03/2008 2:36 PM
