Kate Tirion

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Biomimicry at its best! Inspired by plant processes, scientists are working toward creating home scale power generating systems.
Learning How Plants Split Water to Utilize Solar Energy Inspires Scientists in the Generation of Power

Follow the link to NPR’s Science Friday November 20th 2009 talk and listen to Professor Daniel Nocera of MIT describe their work [...]

Yesterday in Phoenix, Arizona, the late-afternoon temperature was 105 degrees with a humidity reading of 5 percent! One hundred and seventy miles to the south and 2,889 feet higher in elevation, our temperature hovered in the low 90’s with humidity in the low teens; thirteen percent to be precise.

This summer’s monsoonal rains became the [...]