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New Funding Awarded for Solar Thermal R&D

The Department of Energy has announced the winners of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for Solar Thermal resarch and development. Solar Thermal technology is receiving 59% or approximately $10.1 million dollars of the $17 million of project funding announced on October 8th.

The solar thermal projects receiving funding are:

Dual Purpose Advanced HTF with Enhanced [...]

Solar Wind Not Related to Subspots as Previously Believed

NSF.gov

Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun’s impact on Earth over the course of the 11-year solar cycle. The study, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Michigan, finds that Earth was bombarded [...]

China to Witness Longest Total Solar Eclipse in 500 Years

Nasa.gov

China will see the longest total solar eclipse in 500 years on July 22. The prime time of the total eclipse was expected to begin from 9 a.m. to 9:38 a.m. (Beijing Time), said Wang Sichao, a research fellow with the Nanjing-based Purple Mountain Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

According to Wang;

The total [...]

New SuperComputer Simulation Will Improve Our Understanding of Solar Activity

NASA

Here is an interested development in technology that will help us as we strive to understand the solar and solar flare activity. Scientists have created the first-ever comprehensive computer model of sunspots. Ever since outward flows from the center of sunspots were discovered 100 years ago, scientists have worked to explain the complex structure of sunspots, [...]