Today’s Popular Posts
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Posts in this Impact Area: (Alternative Energy)
- Citigroup: Solar energy profit-ready for large consumer companies
- Pushing the efficiency envelope: Solid oxide fuel cell
- One voice: Paul Krugman, fracking and solar energy
- New solar heat technology: Make electricity and hot water
- Fuel cell technology: Fuel from an ‘artificial leaf’
- The scale of radiation dosage
- Fukushima Meltdown
- Potential windows: Transparent solar panel material
- Plant-inspired solar energy synthesis
- Hygroelectricity – hokum or an alternative source of energy?
- The PETE process: Solar heat + light = more electricity
- Discovered: Catalyst for a new industry
- Progress toward graphene solar cells
- A tale of two coastal wind farm plans
- Oil production from living bacteria
- Evaluating two alternative energy technologies
- New steps toward cellulosic ethanol
- Making jet fuel from biomass
- The Bloom Box fuel cell system
- Less silicon, better solar cell
- Superconducting transformers for the grid
- Status Report: Another step for fusion energy
- Solar cell shingles, a new try…
- Microsolar: Potentially a small revolution
- Fold-away solar cells

The scale of radiation dosage
The impact of radiation dosage – scaled…………………Credit: xkcd.com (public domain)
In case you haven’t seen this somewhere else:
The brilliant (if obscurely warped) mind of xkcd has strayed from the comic realm into the realm of information display – with remarkable results.
Go to the source, check it out, enlarge the original, print: Paste it to the physics/biology/chemistry lab door.
Radiation chart at xkcd.com