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向林威老師學 新聞英文 Economist
9年的解說功力, 一年250篇文章,
累積講解2060篇的資源
Economist 導讀 Technology Quarterly 精選故事 Information technology, From the universe to the dataverse.
https://youtu.be/RD_G-dElqQQ
Information technology.
From the universe to the dataverse.
How light becomes information, and information becomes light.
從宇宙到數據宇宙。
光如何成為信息，而信息如何成為光。
Technology Quarterly.
America’s biggest spread of silicon for turning photons into power sits in the Mojave desert about 100km north of downtown Los Angeles. The Solar Star facility consists of 1.7 million solar modules on 13 square kilometres of land. On sunny days it can feed more than half a gigawatt into the grid. In a nice inversion of the old solar-booster’s saw that the Sun provides enough energy in an hour to power civilisation for a year, Solar Star provides enough energy in a year to power civilisation for about an hour.
Such installations are changing the world. Other photon-driven technologies, those concerned with the gathering and transmission of information, have already done so.
Five-and-a-half hours’ drive north-west from Solar Star, at a national laboratory in Silicon Valley called slac, you can find the world’s biggest spread of silicon for turning photons into information. It consists of 189 specialised chips arranged in a disk about 64cm across which will occupy the focal plane of the world’s largest digital camera. Over ten years it will produce a database in which the positions and behaviours of hundreds of billions of celestial objects will be stored.
....
universe 宇宙；天地萬物；萬象
Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? 宇宙中其他地方存在有智慧的生命嗎？
Scientists have speculated about the possibility of parallel universes. 有科學家思考過平行世界存在的可能性。
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By 林威老師向林威老師學 新聞英文 Economist
9年的解說功力, 一年250篇文章,
累積講解2060篇的資源
Economist 導讀 Technology Quarterly 精選故事 Information technology, From the universe to the dataverse.
https://youtu.be/RD_G-dElqQQ
Information technology.
From the universe to the dataverse.
How light becomes information, and information becomes light.
從宇宙到數據宇宙。
光如何成為信息，而信息如何成為光。
Technology Quarterly.
America’s biggest spread of silicon for turning photons into power sits in the Mojave desert about 100km north of downtown Los Angeles. The Solar Star facility consists of 1.7 million solar modules on 13 square kilometres of land. On sunny days it can feed more than half a gigawatt into the grid. In a nice inversion of the old solar-booster’s saw that the Sun provides enough energy in an hour to power civilisation for a year, Solar Star provides enough energy in a year to power civilisation for about an hour.
Such installations are changing the world. Other photon-driven technologies, those concerned with the gathering and transmission of information, have already done so.
Five-and-a-half hours’ drive north-west from Solar Star, at a national laboratory in Silicon Valley called slac, you can find the world’s biggest spread of silicon for turning photons into information. It consists of 189 specialised chips arranged in a disk about 64cm across which will occupy the focal plane of the world’s largest digital camera. Over ten years it will produce a database in which the positions and behaviours of hundreds of billions of celestial objects will be stored.
....
universe 宇宙；天地萬物；萬象
Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? 宇宙中其他地方存在有智慧的生命嗎？
Scientists have speculated about the possibility of parallel universes. 有科學家思考過平行世界存在的可能性。