Link: New company I co-founded - BlackStarr
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The pursuit to uncover the truths of nature. This media space includes my interests of art, high technology and space exploration. I have 2 companies- one that communicates science/space and the other that is focused on art/fashion.
BlackStarr & Something Creative
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jacque@blackstarrgroup.com
BlackStarr & Something Creative
jacque@somethingcreativela.com
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jacque@blackstarrgroup.com
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This story just keeps on cropping up. Once commercialized this could change the dynamic and influence of solar power.
New flexible solar cells are thinner than spider silk.
Austrian scientists have developed flexible, stretchable solar cells on thin plastic foil substrates, able to generate a record 10 watts per gram. The cells have a 4.2% power conversion efficiency, which puts it ahead of this flexible solar system I covered earlier this week. Typical solar panels have around 12-17% efficiency.
The above image shows the cells being wrapped around a human hair only 70 microns wide. The cells are based on a commercially available substrate of PET film, with the total device measuring 1.9 microns thick - around a quarter of the thickness of traditional solar cells.
(Source:nature.com)
Reblogged from futurist-foresightBlackStarr’s first event: Yuri’s Night was an absolute success! Over 900 people came through the W Hollywood on April 12th to celebrate Human Spaceflight. Party-goers included space industry personnel from NASA-JPL, SpaceX, Xcor, Virgin Galactic as well as space enthusiasts from all over California! See our article in Wired Magazine and check out what BlackStarr has coming up in the next 3 weeks- Spacecraft Tech Expo Media Lounge.
Pictured above- BlackStarr co-founders Scott Norman, Simone Syed, and Jacque Saladino (me) with Bill Nye!
(Source:yurisnightla.eventbrite.com)
NASA- JPL Adventure
On Tuesday I visited NASA- JPL— what an amazing place!!! I was unaware that it’s the only government funded NASA center that is completely managed by a university, being Caltech. That’s a really great deal. What I found interesting is that it all began back in 1936 when a few Caltech students started doing dare devil rocket experiments that put themselves and others in jeopardy- students and faculty on campus thought they were going to blow themselves up and nicknamed these engineers the ‘Suicide Squad’! Thanks to Theodore von Karman, who became the first JPL director, these students got a home. I especially loved the replica of Voyager 1, and the story of the Pale Blue Dot. How wonderful is Carl Sagan? It was him who told NASA to take a picture back at earth…and how profound that image is! In conclusion- Carl Sagan rocks, JPL is awesome and Voyager 1 is 17,939,669,401 KM from earth and growing! Find some friends!
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