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Sun Flares

November 10, 2008

“The sun’s activity ebbs and flows on a roughly 11-year cycle. It can range from very quiet to violent space storms that knock out power grids on Earth and disrupt radio and satellite communications. The last peak was in 2000, and scientists have in recent months figured the low point was occurring. Fresh sunspots during October suggest the corner has been turned.”

[from space.com]

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Sun Energy

September 22, 2008

“How much energy comes to earth from the sun? Yearly, the earth receives 6,000 times more sunlight energy than humans consume.”

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Horsepower

The term “horsepower” was first used to describe the amount of work it took for a pony to lift a bucket of coal out of a mine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower

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