WATCH: Google Time Lapse: 29 Years Of Earth From Space
TIME, GOOGLE AND NASA
29 Years Of Earth From Space
A glacier shrinks, a rainforest disappears and a major U.S. city expands before your eyes in the new Google Timelapse project. The partnership blends 29 years of satellite imagery and Google Earth Engine technology to show the impact of human activity on the planet. A new Landsat satellite launched earlier this year will add its leading-edge cameras to the project.
Best link: Time-lapse map chronicles decades of global change as seen from space
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Stunning changes to Earth's landscape
Google and Time magazine have stitched together 29 years of satellite images collected by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, showcasing developments in our planet’s landscape via time-lapse.
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Google Timelapse: Urban Explosion
May 10, 2013 at 6:13 PM
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The Sun, 3 years in 3 minutes. (You will need to cut and paste this into your browser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piuKlpJmjfg
Here is the same video with expert commentary of what is actually happening...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaCG0wAjJSY
More here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/04/24/three-years-of-the-sun-in-three-minutes/
Beautiful video from NASA:
The Incandescent Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ddt5Y1hXfgI
Paper:
Solar Wind, Earth’s Rotation and Changes in Terrestrial Climate
http://www.sciencedomain.org/abstract.php?iid=201&id=4&aid=1050#.UY4lc7-fYQJ
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/22/shocker-top-google-engineers-say-renewable-energy-simply-wont-work/
A research effort by Google corporation to make renewable energy viable has been a complete failure, according to the scientists who led the programme. After 4 years of effort, their conclusion is that renewable energy “simply won’t work”.
According to an interview with the engineers, published in IEEE;
“At the start of RE<C, we had shared the attitude of many stalwart environmentalists: We felt that with steady improvements to today’s renewable energy technologies, our society could stave off catastrophic climate change. We now know that to be a false hope …
Renewable energy technologies simply won’t work; we need a fundamentally different approach.”
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-really-take-to-reverse-climate-change
There is simply no getout clause for renewables supporters. The people who ran the study are very much committed to the belief that CO2 is dangerous – they are supporters of James Hansen. Their sincere goal was not to simply install a few solar cells, but to find a way to fundamentally transform the economics of energy production – to make renewable energy cheaper than coal. To this end, the study considered exotic innovations barely on the drawing board, such as self erecting wind turbines, using robotic technology to create new wind farms without human intervention. The result however was total failure – even these exotic possibilities couldn’t deliver the necessary economic model.