你需要知道的趣味事实 Interesting Facts The world-famous Statue of Liberty standing in New York Harbor was built in France. It was France's gift to the American people. Its designer, a Freemason, was Brother Frederic A. Bartholdi (1834-1904) who conceived its design while on a visit to Ame...
Nuclear fusionis the source of Sun’s phenomenal energy output. The Hydrogen and Helium atoms that constitute Sun, combine in a heavy amount every second to generate a stable and a nearly inexhaustible source of energy. (source)and more info about nuclear fusion in the sun The Energy From Th...
humans have only known about solar power since the 1830s, when Alexandre Edmond Becquerel discovered the photovoltaic effect. We don’t know why inventors always have such cool names, but we do know a slew of solar power facts—as it happens, we have 50 spotlighted below. Read on to lear...
More Nuclear weapons have been tested in Nevada than anywhere else in the United States. And that’s all just from one site, too. We’re talking about the Nevada National Security Site (formerly known as the Nevada Test Site), located just 65 miles (105 km) northwest of Las Vegas. The...
Scottish waters have some of Europe's largest oil reserve and Aberdeen is the centre of Europe's petroleum industry. The number of jobs created by the energy industry in and around Aberdeen has been estimated at half a million. The Sullom Voe Terminal in the Shetland Islands is Europe's la...
Sun Facts The Sun is the star at the centre of our solar system. It is an almost perfect sphere of super-hot gases whose gravity holds the solar system together. The energy produced by the Sun is essential for life on Earth and is a driving force behind the Earth’s weather....
Canada is the world leader in uranium mining. Uranium is used in nuclear power plants for producing electricity. The largest uranium mine of the world is located at Cigar Lake in northern Saskatchewan/Canada. Canada is also the largest supplier of energy, also including oil and gas, to the ...
Here are 50 facts about Earth. 1. We're the third rock from the sun (Image credit: Getty Images) Our home, Earth, is the third planet from the sun, the fifth largest planet in our solar system, with a radius of 3,959 miles, and the only world known to support an atmosphere with...
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We all love funscience facts. But, in these days of "fake news," when amazing science facts are treated as fiction and myth is repeated as scientific fact, how certain are any of us that the "facts" we know to be true actually are true?