{"id":25805,"date":"2010-07-30T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/07\/30\/nature-energy-technology-wow-m\/"},"modified":"2010-07-30T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T13:44:11","slug":"nature-energy-technology-wow-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/nature-energy-technology-wow-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature, Energy, Technology Wow Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can a fly&#8217;s eye(s) be used for solar cells?  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/tech\/fly-eyes-used-for-solar-cells.html\">Apparently so. <\/a>  Speaking of which, I have a gripe. Nuclear power supporters have always ignored the fact that Nuclear power (a.k.a. &#8220;unlimited safe free energy&#8221;) is more expensive than other traditional forms of energy.   In the mean time, anti &#8220;alternative&#8221; energy, often the same people, have touted that Solar is too expensive to be worth it.  Well, guess what.  A recent study seems to have shown that <a href=\"http:\/\/theenergycollective.com\/oshadavidson\/40559\/study-solar-power-cheaper-nuclear\">Solar power is cheaper than nuclear<\/a>.  So, there you go.<\/p>\n<p>Berry Go Round # 30, the Plant Carnival, is up and running at <a href=\"http:\/\/brainripples.com\/home\/2010\/07\/berry-go-round-30-come-together\/\">Brainripples<\/a>.  This is your window to amazing plant photography (and some insects too) as well as discussions of plant evolutionary biology.<\/p>\n<p>There is now a fast hybrid car, and it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/blog\/1047665_porsche-918-spyder-gets-official-production-greenlight\">porsche<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And:  Apparently, they&#8217;ve cracked the mystery of<a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2010\/07\/the-physics-of-a-rolling-rubber-.html\"> how rubber bands work<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a fly&#8217;s eye(s) be used for solar cells? Apparently so. Speaking of which, I have a gripe. Nuclear power supporters have always ignored the fact that Nuclear power (a.k.a. &#8220;unlimited safe free energy&#8221;) is more expensive than other traditional forms of energy. In the mean time, anti &#8220;alternative&#8221; energy, often the same people, have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/nature-energy-technology-wow-m\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nature, Energy, Technology Wow Moments<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Id","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}