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3 unusual facts about Solar: Live at Sweet Basil


Key of Soul

A second album of this evenings concert was released as Solar: Live at Sweet Basil (1991).

Solar: Live at Sweet Basil

Another album of this evening's concert was released as Key of Soul (1991).

The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden states "This solid concert is easily recommended to fans of McCoy Tyner".


Aashaadha

In solar religious calendars, Āsāṛh begins with the Sun's entry into Cancer.

Abetti

Giorgio Abetti (1882–1982), Italian solar astronomer, son of Antonio.

Antipodes Water Company

It has developed a wetland and replanted native kahikatea forest on the land surrounding the bottling facility, and has cut its energy use by installing solar panels that heat water for its laboratory and testing facilities.

Areva Solar

Areva Solar is conducting a 44-MW solar thermal addition with CS Energy to the existing 750-MW Kogan Creek Power Station in Queensland, Australia.

Asia Square

It will house the largest photovoltaic cells (solar panel) installation on the roof in Singapore and also the first bio-diesel generation plant in a commercial development in the CBD.

ATS-6

The antenna feeds (in C, S, L, UHF and VHF bands) were placed on the spacecraft body, facing the antenna reflector, and linked to the antenna and the solar panels masts by a carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) truss.

Beta Pictoris

In 2000, observations made with the Advanced Meteor Orbit Radar facility in New Zealand revealed the presence of a stream of particles coming from the direction of Beta Pictoris, which may be a dominant source of interstellar meteoroids in our solar system.

Bioshelter

The word bioshelter was coined by the New Alchemy Institute and solar designers Sean Wellesley-Miller and Day Chahroudi.

Caldwell Tanks

Solana Generating Station - Caldwell was awarded the contract to build 12 molten salt thermal energy storage tanks for the first large-scale solar plant in the United States capable of storing energy.

Cambridge University Eco Racing

The team used CFD simulations to make minor tweaks to the canopy, and tested the car extensively at a local airfield, before heading out to the next World Solar Challenge in October 2011.

Cerdanya

For this reason, pioneering large-scale solar power projects have been built in several locations in French Cerdagne, including Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via, the Themis plant near Targassonne, and Mont-Louis Solar Furnace in Mont-Louis.

City Solar

City Solar has produced over a dozen power stations including the world's largest photovoltaic power plant located in Beneixama, Spain.

Clabon Allen

Allen observed the 1 October 1940 solar eclipse in South Africa and obtained important results on the solar corona, including measurements of its electron density which were to prove invaluable to radio astronomers.

Crab Nebula

The exact time of the comet's return required the consideration of perturbations to its orbit caused by planets in the Solar System such as Jupiter, which Clairaut and his two colleagues Jérôme Lalande and Nicole-Reine Lepaute carried out more precisely than Halley, finding that the comet should appear in the constellation of Taurus.

Craig L. Hill

Professor Hill’s research encompasses fundamental structural and reactivity studies, Catalysis, functional nanomaterials (Nanotechnology), antiviral chemotherapy and solar energy conversion (Artificial Photosynthesis).

Dave McAleer

He was one of the UK’s first club DJs (1963), before spending 25 years in the record business – working in A&R for labels including RCA Records, Pye Records, DJM Records, Stax Records, Chess Records, Disco Demand, Sugarhill, Calibre, Champagne, Hi, Solar, CTI Records, TMT and Buddah Records, and was managing director of Barry White's label, 20th Century Records.

Dover Heights, New South Wales

The CSIRO further used the site for pioneering experimentation in radio astronomy related to galactic radio emissions, with a team including John Gatenby Bolton first observing solar emissions in 1945.

First Babylonian Dynasty

The pair of lunar and solar eclipses occurred in the month Shimanu (Sivan).

Fred Espenak

He is co-author with Jean Meeus of Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, October 2006.

Fuzzy Cloaks

They released their debut cassette "Solar Hits" in 2011 on Kind Turkey Records.

Gamma-ray astronomy

The solar observations inspired theoretical work by Reuven Ramaty and others.

Geimos

The game is set in the year 2135 AD on a military base that was created in one of the moons that make up the Solar System.

Himalia group

Numerical integrations show a high probability of collisions among the members of the prograde group during the lifespan of the solar system (e.g. on average 1.5 collisions between Himalia and Elara).

History of climate change science

Noting that the rings were thinner in dry years, he reported climate effects from solar variations, particularly in connection with the 17th-century dearth of sunspots (the Maunder Minimum) noticed previously by William Herschel and others.

I. M. Dharmadasa

His recent scientific breakthroughs 1-2, which are fundamental to describing the photovoltaic activity of CdTe/CdS solar cells, were summarised in a "new theoretical model for CdTe”.

Interchill Records

Over the years Interchill has featured tracks by producers such as Bill Laswell, Jah Wobble, Ott, Shpongle, Steve Roach, Makyo, Eat Static, Zion Train, Gus Till, Greg Hunter, Jairamji, Bluetech, Omnimotion, Umberloid, Bassnectar, Hamsa Lila, Antonio Testa, Solar Fields, Cell, Phutureprimitive, Snakestyle, Twilight Circus & Legion of Green Men.

Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics

The institute has one solar telescope on the Schauinsland Mountain near Freiburg and, in collaboration with other institutions, uses solar telescopes of the Teide Observatory in Tenerife, Spain.

Lisa Law

She and her husband, Tom Law, whom she met in 1965 at a Peter Paul & Mary concert in Berkeley, CA, lived together on a farm in Truchas, New Mexico for 12 years and had four children, Dhana Pilar, Solar Sat, Sunday Peaches & Jesse Lee Rainbow.

Lusail Iconic Stadium

Parking and service areas are shaded by canopies of solar collectors, which will produce energy for the stadium when it is in use, as well as generating power for neighbouring buildings.

NASA Pathfinder

The new center section was topped by more-efficient silicon solar cells developed by SunPower Corporation of Sunnyvale, California, which could convert almost 19 percent of the solar energy they receive to useful electrical energy to power the craft's motors, avionics and communication systems.

Norman Lockyer

Lockyer led eight expeditions to observe solar eclipses for example in 1870 to Sicily, 1871 to India and 1898 to India.

Peter B. Lawrence

He has appeared on Blue Peter and his skills and advice are much sought after in the field of solar and planetary imaging.

Pierre Janssen

In 1875, Janssen was appointed director of the new astrophysical observatory established by the French government at Meudon, and set on foot there in 1876 the remarkable series of solar photographs collected in his great Atlas de photographies solaires (1904).

Polar vortex

Saturn's south pole is the only known hot polar vortex in the solar system.

Precision viticulture

Other Environmental Sensors monitor important biophysical factors such as solar radiation, soil moisture, and temperature regimes.

Science in the medieval Islamic world

al-Battani (850–922) was an astronomer who accurately determined the length of the solar year.

SciLands

Founded in 1977 by Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill, Gerard O'Neill, Princeton University professor and author of The High Frontier, SSI sponsored and conducted research into areas such as solar power satellites, lunar bases, space colonies, asteroid mining, and mass drivers.

Solar balloon

Dominic Michaelis is recorded as having owned the first pure solar balloon in Europe.

Solar bonds

Fenn drafted the ordinance (86-04, 2004) for sponsoring supervisor Tom Ammiano, who had also sponsored placing the solar bond authority on the 2001 ballot, and Fenns' company, Local Power Inc., went on to draft a 2007 implementation plan and 2013 business model to implement the $1 billion project.

Solar eclipse of April 6, 1875

Astronomers J. N. Lockyer and Arthur Schuster traveled to observe the eclipse and measure spectral lines to determine the elemental contents of the solar corona.

Solar pond

The largest operating solar pond for electricity generation was the Beit HaArava pond built in Israel and operated up until 1988.

Southern Hemisphere

During solar eclipses viewed from a point to the south of the Tropic of Capricorn the Moon moves from left to right on the disc of the Sun (see, for example, photos with timings of the Solar eclipse of November 13, 2012), while viewed from a point to the north of the Tropic of Cancer (i.e., in the Northern Hemisphere) the Moon moves from right to left during a solar eclipses.

The Killing Star

We Are the World by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie - Six alien ships patrolling through the post-attack solar system continually broadcast this song.

Vampires: The Turning

In her pain and rage, Sang attacked Niran during a Songkran (New Year) solar eclipse, turning him into a vampire.

Volcanism

Volcanoes have indeed been clearly observed on other bodies in the solar system – on some, such as Mars, in the shape of mountains that are unmistakably old volcanoes (most notably Olympus Mons), but on Io actual ongoing eruptions have been observed.

Wind power in New Zealand

The Institute for Solar Energy Supply Technology of the University of Kassel pilot-tested a combined power plant linking solar, wind, biogas and hydrostorage to provide load-following power around the clock, entirely from renewable sources.

Wright Eclipse

The Eclipse and its sister design the Solar were named for a solar eclipse which was visible in the UK in 1999, the year of its introduction.


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