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Who Owns the Moon? Japan Plan Would Get Energy from Sunlight Reflection

–The Japanese plan to turn the Moon into a mirror ball to harvest solar power, and we wonder who owns the Moon? –On the Bonus Show Woman prays to win lottery and wins, 7 hour flight delay causes mutiny, woman in freezer for a decade, energy drinks bad for you, more. The David Pakman Show is an internationally syndicated talk radio and television program hosted by David Pakman www.davidpakman.com http www.facebook.com www.twitter.com feeds.feedburner.com 24/7 Voicemail Line & Studio Number: (219)-2DAVIDP Broadcast on May 30, 2011

Swiss support grows for wind energy

Environmental groups have, until recently, resisted the expansion of win energy in Switzerland, but the mood among green campaigners has begun to change since Japan’s nuclear disaster. The Swiss Foundation for Countryside Protection is even advocating the expansion of wind parks. (SF/swissinfo.ch)

Spherical Solar Energy : DigInfo

DigInfo – movie.diginfo.tv In the search for alternative energy Clean Venture 21 have developed a new spin on solar. Their Spherical Silicon Solar Array are made from silicon spheres 1mm in diameter which sit in a reflector which is 2.2 to 2.7mm in width. The sphere catches and stores the incidental light on its n-Si (or sphere surface) and transfers it to the p-Si (its internal sphere) which is in turn connected to a p-electrode. Clean Venture 21 also utilizes traditional flat-type arrays as well. “These cells here are in a 5cm x 15cm formation- each individual cell has a 1mm silicon ball inside it and it has an overall efficiency conversion rate of about 10%. In other experiments we have had efficiency rates of about 12%. Very soon we’d like to achieve 13 to 14% rates.” The benefits of their Micro condensing type spherical silicon solar array is that it’s 5 times cheaper to make, uses 5 times less material, and requires half the energy to reproduce than its contemporaries.