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Neesy

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This week, a scientific research facility in Wyoming made a startling discovery that is certain to change the way millions of Americans look at the environmentalism movement, after they found conclusive evidence that solar panels not only convert the sun’s energy into usable energy, but that they are also draining the sun of its own energy, possibly with catastrophic consequences far worse than global warming.

Scientists at the Wyoming Institute of Technology, a privately-owned think tank located in Cheyenne, Wyoming, discovered that energy radiated from the sun isn’t merely captured in solar panels, but that energy is directly physically drawn from the sun by those panels, in a process they refer to as “forced photovoltaic drainage.”

“Put into laymen’s terms, the solar panels capture the sun’s energy, but pull on the sun over time, forcing more energy to be released than the sun is actually producing,” WIT claims in a scientific white paper published on Wednesday. “Imagine a waterfall, dumping water. But you aren’t catching the water in buckets, but rather sucking it in with a vacuum cleaner. Eventually, you’re going to suck in so much water that you drain the river above that waterfall completely.”

WIT is adamant that there’s no immediate danger, however. “Currently, solar panels are an energy niche, and do not pose a serious risk to the sun. But if we converted our grids to solar energy in a big way, with panels on domestic homes and commercial businesses, and paving our parking lots with panels, we’d start seeing very serious problems over time. If every home in the world had solar panels on their roofs, global temperatures would drop by as much as thirty degrees over twenty years, and the sun could die out within three hundred to four hundred years.”

The study was commissioned in August 2011 by the Halliburton corporation, who wanted to learn if the energy giant should start manufacturing and selling solar panels domestically and internationally. Halliburton’s executives wanted to know more about the sustainability of solar energy and how photovoltaic technology might evolve over the next ten years. But based on the findings of WIT’s research in the field, Halliburton revealed on Friday that they will not be entering the solar energy market.

“Solar panels destroying the sun could potentially be the worst man-made climate disaster in the history of the world, and Halliburton will not be taking part in that,” the company stated in a press release issued Friday morning. “It’s obvious, based on the findings of this neutral scientific research group, that humans needs to become more dependent on fossil fuels like oil and coal, not less. Because these so-called `green technologies’ are far more dangerous to the Earth than any hydrofracking operation or deep-water drilling station. What good is clean air when our very sun is no longer functional?”

- See more at: Solar Panels Drain the Sun's Energy, Experts Say | National Report

Wow - sorry to be a bit leery of this study. Just my personal opinion. :blues:
 

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Wow - sorry to be a bit leery of this study. Just my personal opinion. :blues:
"A bit" equating to "with every fiber of my brain tissue," yes.

Solar panels, "draining" the sun? The sun is essentially going through thousands of nuclear explosions every minute. We're hit within a tiny, tiny fraction of that energy, yet even that tiny bit is enough to power every photosynthetic plant that we have and produce all our oxygen. The thought that solar panels "suck" the sun's energy is akin to an ant watching a herd of elephants and saying, "They're walking that direction cuz of me."

I notice that the site also says that Obama will have "In God We Trust" removed from coins as of July 1st, that he's going to go on retainer to the Muslim Brotherhood after his second term ends, and that Russia has developed a vaccine against homosexuality. This has to be a satire site, either intentionally or not.
 

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"A bit" equating to "with every fiber of my brain tissue," yes.

Solar panels, "draining" the sun? The sun is essentially going through thousands of nuclear explosions every minute. We're hit within a tiny, tiny fraction of that energy, yet even that tiny bit is enough to power every photosynthetic plant that we have and produce all our oxygen. The thought that solar panels "suck" the sun's energy is akin to an ant watching a herd of elephants and saying, "They're walking that direction cuz of me."

I notice that the site also says that Obama will have "In God We Trust" removed from coins as of July 1st, that he's going to go on retainer to the Muslim Brotherhood after his second term ends, and that Russia has developed a vaccine against homosexuality. This has to be a satire site, either intentionally or not.
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"A bit" equating to "with every fiber of my brain tissue," yes.

Solar panels, "draining" the sun? The sun is essentially going through thousands of nuclear explosions every minute. We're hit within a tiny, tiny fraction of that energy, yet even that tiny bit is enough to power every photosynthetic plant that we have and produce all our oxygen. The thought that solar panels "suck" the sun's energy is akin to an ant watching a herd of elephants and saying, "They're walking that direction cuz of me."

I notice that the site also says that Obama will have "In God We Trust" removed from coins as of July 1st, that he's going to go on retainer to the Muslim Brotherhood after his second term ends, and that Russia has developed a vaccine against homosexuality. This has to be a satire site, either intentionally or not.
Yer so easy. ;-D
 
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There was a spoiler? Wow must be my bedtime! (in three more minutes it will be tomorrow here - happy Hump Day!)
There wasn't at first. Sometimes I Post, then come back right away with changes. But for some reason it took about a minute and a half to load the spoiler change, so you and Grandpa must've read it meanwhile.
 
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Actually, the main culprit is the person's immune system and how well it's adjusted to fighting off germs. If you're immunocompromised (like you have cancer, asthma, diabetes, etc.) you'll be more susceptible to getting the cold.
If you're like the doctor I used to live with, another person can get a cold while you're in the same house and you still won't get it if you're not immunocompromised and eat really balanced meals like he did.
For the common cold it's like that but not with other ailments that you get by other routes of transmission. There are 4 main routes of transmission: 1) Airborne 2) insect bites 3) direct contact and one other. I can't recall it at this late hour. I think it's by oral ingestion of the microbe.
 

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Actually, the main culprit is the person's immune system and how well it's adjusted to fighting off germs. If you're immunocompromised (like you have cancer, asthma, diabetes, etc.) you'll be more susceptible to getting the cold.
If you're like the doctor I used to live with, another person can get a cold while you're in the same house and you still won't get it if you're not immunocompromised and eat really balanced meals like he did.
For the common cold it's like that but not with other ailments that you get by other routes of transmission. There are 4 main routes of transmission: 1) Airborne 2) insect bites 3) direct contact and one other. I can't recall it at this late hour. I think it's by oral ingestion of the microbe.
The main point of the image is to dispel the popular myth that a drop in environmental temperature is responsible directly for contamination by cold viruses.
 

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Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and aradioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cat either alive ordead, not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other.
 
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