Photography by Caras Ionut
Giant Marble Harvests Energy from Sun and Moon
It looks like a giant, glass marble. But this globe is no game. It’s a sun-tracking, solar energy concentrator.
This sun-tracking glass globe is able to concentrate sunlight and moonlight up to 10,000 times and that the system is 35 percent more efficient than traditional photovoltaic designs that track the sun.
Michio Kaku Explains the Physics Behind Absolutely Everything
Got 42 minutes to spare? You’ll be happy that you do. Biology, my love, may describe the physical workings of our existence … but physics describes the mechanisms of existence itself.
Beautiful stuff. Tell your teachers to play this instead of having class today.
(via Open Culture)
Stanley Kubrick on the set of A Clockwork Orange (1971)
(via frankmackey)