I have caught all of them so far. The transportation was cool but all of them had some interesting things in them.

Man science is neat. I should have gone into chemistry instead of accounting.

I am really anxious to see what the plastic solar cells will do. Those could replace every roof in the country some day.

 

I've been watching the science channel every day since I noticed we had it. Is it new, I never thought I had it before and then one day I had the Science Channel and the Military Channel.

 

I don't know if the Science Channel and Discovery Science are different channels or the same. Eco Tech has been a series on this week that deals with environmental technologies of the apparently near future.

Monday was alternative fuels. Tuesday was products and energy made from garbage. Wednesday was building techniques and materials. Thurdays was, well sort of a combo platter. But they had some things about designs of new windmills that capture energy in downtown cities, a town in Sweden that is totally energy independant. Stuff like that.

The city in Sweden was on the coast and they had some giant underground collection station for sea water. In the winter they would collect ice cold sea water, then in the summer pump it out to another location and use it for cooling. While they were using it for cooling, it was then collecting warm summer sea currents, which they would pump out in the fall to help with heating. It was pretty interesting.

A couple geo thermal power stations, sea current energy turbines, far more efficient and cheaper solar cells. It was pretty cool stuff.

The piece on some new process of making solar cells out of plastic was cool. They said currently silcone photovoltiacs go for about $2.50 a watt to manufacture. The new plastic ones this company was going to make were estimated to get down to ten cents a watt.