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UN warms to giant mirrors in climate fight

2013-09-20 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Financial Times: Putting giant mirrors in space or salting clouds to make them brighter may sound more like science fiction than reality. But these and a raft of other futuristic ploys have made it into the pages of a landmark UN report that concludes some have the potential to substantially curb global warming, according to a final draft seen by the Financial Times. Scientists have been working on so-called geo-engineering ideas for years but the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has largely confined...

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Whirlpool Performance Mirrors 2010 But At Twice The Stock Price

2013-09-11 19:18:29| Appliances - Topix.net

You would think Whirlpool Corporation had moved to Silicon Valley and invented something revolutionary when you look at a chart of its stock price in the past 2 years.

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Copper Mirrors suit Mitsubishi high-power lasers.

2013-08-16 14:30:30| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

Manufactured with greater than 99% pure gold deposited on OFHC copper, Laser Mirrors are available in 3 plano types: zero phase shift, 90° phase shift, and 98.8% resonator. Units have 1/20 power flatness, 1/40 irregularity at 10.6 µm, and surface quality of less than 5 nm RMS and 40–20 scratch-dig. Offered in 50 mm, 60 mm, and 3 in. diameters with +0/-0.12 mm tolerance, mirrors are suitable for beam bending in all beam paths and beam guidance systems. This story is related to the following:Laser Mirrors |

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Invisibility cloak made from simple mirrors can stop time indefinitely

2013-08-14 17:16:00| Extremetech

Researchers at Northwestern University have designed an invisibility cloak that can temporally hide objects for an indefinite period of time. Objects covered by this invisibility cloak wouldn't disappear from sight, but rather it would appear that time has completely stopped for the cloaked object. A clock, for example, would continue to tick -- but to the human observer, the hands would never move.

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