How to harness the power of the sun? That's a big endeavor! Scientists have been on a quest to harness the power of the sun for almost 100 years. Why? Because the sun's power is the best renewable energy source for the future.| Susan Berk Koch
I’ve already done some worldbuilding for my planet “Cerberus” and the surrounding system (Sirius B), but what about the Dog Star itself, Sirius A? We wouldn’t want it to be boring, but we also want to keep it scientifically plausible, yet not duplicative of the … Continue readingWorlds of White The post Worlds of White appeared first on Adamas Nemesis.| | Adamas Nemesis | Adamas Nemesis
Back in the days when I used to maintain this blog (so, quite a few years ago), I occasionally wrote about helium. Many people are surprised to learn that helium, the stuff of party balloons and superconducting magnets for particle accelerators (and many dozens of other uses), is a slowly dwindling non-renewable resource. [TL;DR: (1)...| Ian Tregillis
Arm Launches the Cortex-M52 For IoT; Its Smallest Processor with Helium| WikiChip Fuse
A trick question: Which weighs more, an empty or a helium-filled balloon? Answered by logic and calculation.| Quirky Science