Manchester Solar Tower

Manchester’s CIS Tower could possibly be the world’s tower fully covered with solar panels, which is something impressive bearing in mind that the idea of buildings covered with solar panels have moved beyond the drawing board stage. It was said that this solar panels are packed with a punch, a much greener panels that produce 80W photovoltaic of energy, taking into consideration that the entire tower has a total of 7,244 panels, which would literally translate into 390 kilowatts of energy and can power a total of 1,000 computers for a year.

Impressive? Well not really, with a price tag of $11.4 million, these solar panels cost a bomb considering the fact that if the panels were to run at full load for 12 hours a day 365 days a year the savings would be about $150,000 a year, so the building will break even after 76 years-far longer than the lifetime of the cells, and the best part is, keeping the money in a bank that promise a good interest rate return at 3 -4% for 6 months would definitely cover the electricity bills. Conclusion. Solar panels has a long way to go and Global Warming is here to stay for good, goodbye earth!

Albert Speers Volkshalle Illusion

It is the dome to end all domes, the brain child of Albert Speer and Adolf Hitler is known as the Volkshalle. We do know that the evil Nazi regime is occupied with science, occultism, voodoo and many other alternative ways that they believe would help them win the war, but I never know that they are interested in illusions too.

What make the Volkshalle or better known as the Great Dome interesting is the interior, take a good look at the illustration of the hall and the shadow of the pedestal with the Nazi eagle figure, the illusion is in the form of Hitler’s face, believed to appear only at a particular time of the year. For your information, the Great Dome do not exist, it is just a proposal that never took off probably due to the out break of the war, anyway most of Albert Speer’s works never survive the war, and even if it does survive the war, the people of Germany and the allies tore it down except for the Olympia Stadium are we not suppose to preserve history be it good or bad?

Albert Speer survive the war and was sentence to twenty years in prison for slave labor, he claims that he had no direct involvement or knowledge of the Holocaust, although he admits having blinded himself to its existence and expresses remorse for this.