Yes! >>>>>>>>>>>>> TRANSPARENT Solar Panels?!

Kinda nerdy but nice

Published on Jul 27, 2017

Views: 58,266

Infinitesimally small quantum dots can turn a window into a see-through solar panel!

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If you want to learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
Solar window: a window that functions like an ordinary window but also generates power like a solar panel

Nanoparticle (also called nanopowder or nanocluster or nanocrystal): a microscopic particle with at least one dimension less than 100 nm. These tiny objects often have characteristics that differ from larger versions of the same material.

Quantum dots (QD): tiny nanoparticles of some kind of semiconducting material, only several nanometers in size, so small that their optical and electronic properties differ from those of larger particles. The QDs embedded in solar windows can absorb radiation largely in short wavelengths and re-emit in longer wavelengths; useful for capturing solar energy and successfully transferring it to the solar cells on the edges of the pane.

Total internal reflection: a phenomenon in which a wave hits a medium boundary at such an angle that it doesn't pass through to the other side
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Script Writers: Peter Reich & Emily Elert
Script Editor: Alex Reich (@alexhreich)
Video Illustrator: Qingyang Chen (@QCVisual)
Video Director: Kate Yoshida (@KateYoshida)
Video Narrator: Kate Yoshida (@KateYoshida)
With Contributions From: Henry Reich, Ever Salazar, Emily Elert, Peter Reich, David Goldenberg
Music by: Nathaniel Schroeder: http://www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder

Image Credits: Thumbnail: R. Lunt, MSU.
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Advantages + Performance of 5G

Published on Jul 27, 2017

Views: 13

Introduction to Infineon's solution for 5G smart lighting and performance improvements by Gerhard Wolf.

Demonstration at Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona.

Why Journalists Have An Obligation To Challenge Power (with English subt...

Published on Jul 27, 2017

Views: 5,510

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You can kick Jorge Ramos out of your press conference (as Donald Trump infamously did in 2015), but you can never silence him. A reporter for more than 30 years, Ramos believes that a journalist's responsibility is to question and challenge those in power. In this compelling talk -- which earned him a standing ovation midway through -- Ramos explains why, in certain circumstances, he believes journalists must take sides.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICK! The Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter

(Live) - OFFICIAL PROMO

Published on Nov 27, 2012

Views: 6,632,266

The official promo for the Rolling Stones' 1998 single 'Gimme Shelter', a live version of their 1969 studio recorded release.

WHOA!! Massive Ship Passes Sun Just Before Killshot Eruption!!!

WTF? Something happened ...

Published on Jul 25, 2017

Views: 103,519

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Public Charter School Heritage Academy Gets Outdoor Make-Over for Start of Classes

With all the new 'pretty pictures' of plans from a private developer for a big project on the Drew Street Parking Lot that's mostly filled by the cars driven by some of the 700 students attending all-day classes at charter school Heritage Academy located on the west side of Center Street, backing onto Drew Street and recently expanded to a 1-story building at 44 W First Avenue directly adjacent south of the parking lot, any reasonable person might wonder if the private developer's plans fit in with existing traffic patterns and the new neighborhood anchored by Encore On First since 2013. 
The image for recommended traffic patterns around the Heritage Academy property, running east-to-west with Center Street on the far right, inserted above is from this source: http://hamesa.com/parentsql-pick-up-and-drop-off/.
You can click or screen-tap the image to enlarge.

PICK UP & DROP OFF.

Below are a few items to note regarding parking at Heritage Academy.

• 10-minute temporary parking is available on Center Street in front of the school. After you leave this parking area, DO NOT make a U-turn on Center.  This is not safe and Mesa Police Dept will issue tickets.
• Longer-term parking is available on the West side of campus.
• Parking is also available in the City of Mesa parking lot West of Drew Street or North of 1st Avenue.
• Parking passes are required for all students and faculty. (see front office)
• The best place to wait for pick up is on route #1 below.
• On route #2, please do not stop on the turn by the Jr high building. This often causes an undue backup onto Drew Street.
• Below is a map of the pick-up and drop-off routes.

It's a high-traffic area for both parent's cars dropping-off/picking students, student-driven cars parking during school hours in available spaces designated [1], and pedestrians - students walking between classes in the main building or annex across Drew Street to/from classes in a red one-story building at 44 W First Avenue [labeled as Burrell's/Luce in the image]

Here's the proposed development site-plan from the City of Mesa looking south from Main Street at the bottom, with north-south Center Street at the far left. The Drew Street Parking is center left, outlined as the small-site footprint under consideration for an out-of-scale 15-story hotel, 75 "above market-rent' apartments with commercial/retail spaces.  

You will notice the developers appear to have some plans in-mind for both the public thoroughfare of Drew Street between Main/First Avenue and the alleyway access from Drew to Center Streets. The 100+ free parking spaces for student parking west of Heritage Academy and Main Street businesses - gone.

Any reasonable person might as if this is 'a good fit' in any way, shape or form, or just another example of "The Mesa Way" to-do-things that time-and-time again are fields of schemes foisted on the backs of taxpayer-financed tax increases to benefit certain special-interest groups with undisclosed connections to the generations-old entrenched political machine inside City Hall - do we really want more of this????
Pretty picture or another Pie-In-The-Sky scheme ??
[Image from article link below]
Please not a REALITY-CHECK image from on-site in the Drew Street Parking Lot last night on ground-level at end of this post.

The green-space you see near the upper-left in the first image is an outdoor athletic area for the school, where sports are a huge attraction for student activities.
It's been re-constructed with new connections for water and electricity and turfed-over in the last few months, a new passageway built on the side of the faculty lot for student foot-traffic on Drew Street to/from a newer annex on First Avenue - with a new mural appearing on the south wall called "Heroes".

Newly-installed pavers in the outdoor school lunch service area are almost ready in the area between the main building to the right and classrooms located at 42 S Center Street to the left. The sunshade has been in place earlier.
[Image was captured about two days ago]

Here's the official "spoon-fed news" by Arizona Republic reporter Jessica Boehm

'Portland on the Park' developer wants to build 15-story downtown Mesa apartments, hotel

Jessica Boehm, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 10:50 a.m. MT July 14, 2017 | Updated 1:19 p.m. MT July 14, 2017

Link > http://www.azcentral.com/story

Here's what the proposed site looked like last night from ground-level at the Westside boundary of the .91-acre site looking east to the Mesa Arts Center, behind the backside of Heritage Academy... not-so-pretty, huh?

The 8-story City Hall building is seen as far left

 

 
 
 
 
 

BEA News: Gross Domestic Product by State, Q1 2017

EMBARGOED UNTIL RELEASE AT 8:30 A.M. EDT, Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Gross Domestic Product by State: First Quarter of 2017

Real Estate and Rental and Leasing Led Growth Across States in the First Quarter

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 43 states and the District of Columbia in the first quarter of 2017, according to statistics on the geographic breakout of GDP released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The full text of the release on BEA's Web site can be found at www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_state/qgsp_newsrelease.htm 

Real GDP by state growth in the first quarter ranged from 3.9 percent in Texas to -4.0 percent in Nebraska (table 1 and chart 1).

Arizona > 0.9%

Overall growth in real GDP slowed in the first quarter from the fourth quarter of 2016

Real estate and rental and leasing; mining; and durable-goods manufacturing were the leading contributors to U.S. economic growth in the first quarter (table 2).

Overall growth in real GDP slowed in the first quarter from the fourth quarter of 2016, with finance and insurance, retail trade, and agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting leading the deceleration in real GDP.

Highlights

• Real estate and rental and leasing grew 2.7 percent nationally in the first quarter of 2017. This industry contributed to growth in 44 states. The largest contributions to growth occurred in Virginia and Maryland; these states grew 2.0 percent and 2.1 percent, respectively.
• Mining grew 21.6 percent nationally. This industry contributed to growth in 48 states. It was the leading contributor to growth in Texas, West Virginia, and New Mexico–the three fastest growing states–which grew 3.9 percent, 3.0 percent, and 2.8 percent, respectively.
• Durable-goods manufacturing grew 4.4 percent nationally. This industry contributed to growth in 47 states and the District of Columbia. The largest contributions to growth occurred in Michigan and Kentucky; these states grew 1.5 percent and 1.8 percent, respectively.
• Finance and insurance declined 2.1 percent nationally. This industry subtracted from growth in 45 states and the District of Columbia. The largest subtractions occurred in Delaware and Utah; these states grew 0.3 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively.
• Retail trade declined 3.6 percent nationally. This industry subtracted from growth in every state. The largest subtractions occurred in Oklahoma and West Virginia; these states grew 1.9 percent and 3.0 percent, respectively.
• Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting declined 39.8 percent nationally. This industry subtracted from growth in 39 states. The largest subtractions occurred in South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska, the states with the largest declines in real GDP. Real GDP in these states declined 3.8 percent, 3.2 percent, and 4.0 percent, respectively.

Upcoming Update of the Gross Domestic Product by State Accounts

Updated statistics of gross domestic product (GDP) by state, covering the first quarter of 2014 through the first quarter of 2017, will be released along with quarterly GDP by state for the second quarter of 2017 on November 21. The update will be fully consistent with the annual update of the national income and product accounts, which will be released on July 28, and the annual update of the industry economic accounts, which will be released on November 2.