Nasa launches Iris mission to explore solar energy - video | Science | guardian.co.uk
Geege Schuman stashed this in NASA to Me
This has a lot of potential. I'm glad they're doing it!
I still think solar energy sources (and other renewables) are the future!
I don't think I'm the only one, either...
Renewable energy will soon beat out natural gas as the second-largest source of electricity worldwide, according to projections from the International Energy Agency.
Electricity from solar, wind, hydropower and other renewable sources will increase by 40 percent in the next five years, making up about 25 percent of the world’s energy sources by 2018. Renewables will provide the second-largest amount of global electricity by 2016, topped only by coal, the number one supplier of energy around the world. Today, hydropower dominates the renewable energy mix, supplying 80 percent of the world’s renewable electricity, but IEA projects non-hydro sources of renewable energy will double over the next five years, comprising about 8 percent of the world’s energy sources by 2018.
4:44 AM Jun 28 2013