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Bruce Chalmers, a Harvard scientist, is working to develop a new solar battery that would harness the sun's energy and supply cheap power. Experts say the battery could help ease the burden of energy shortages...
Chalmers, McKay Professor of Metallurgy, is collaborating with the Tyco Labs in Waltham in an attempt to perfect a process which would convert solar energy into inexpensive industrial power...
...past, the cost of converting solar energy has been prohibitive, for solar batteries require the expensive slicing of silicon crystals...
...discovery has dual significance. Both molecules have been found in the clouds of gases and dust in the vast reaches between the stars; thus their presence in the comet lends strong support to the theory that comets were formed from the same interstellar material out of which the solar system was born. In addition, because both molecules decompose into simpler molecules unless they are frozen, their detection helps confirm the most commonly accepted idea about comets: they are little more than giant icebergs made up of frozen gases and dust...
...earth and the population as a whole transcended everyday life." For him, the U.S. space program is justified simply because it irreversibly thrust us into interplanetary travel. "In all the history of mankind," Sagan writes, "there will be only one generation that will be first to explore the Solar System, one generation for which, in childhood, the planets are distant and indistinct discs moving through the night sky, and for which, in old age, the planets are places, diverse new worlds in the course of exploration...