#the sun queen

[itsbrucey]

Big fan of sun motifs in characters not necessarily being about positivity and happiness and how they're so " bright and warm" but instead being about fucking brutal they are.

Radiant. A FORCE of nature that will turn you to ash. That warmth that burns so hot it feels like ice. Piercing yellow and red and white. A character being a Sun because you cannot challenge a Sun without burning alive or taking everything down with them if victorious.

#this post is inspired by my dnd oc Beacon. whom i am workshopping again #gonna turn him into a really like....duty driven but fucking BRUTAL paladin. #The sun also being necessary for life....for structures of society and culture. like.... cmon #The sun is fucking terrifying and yall should recognize that more #ALSO THIS IS A SMALL LOVE LETTER TO HOLLOW KNIGHT'S THE RADIANCE #I LOVE YOU QUEEN!!!! YOU'RE SO SCARY!!!!!! #we need more of Her.

[xtruss]

Capturing The Sun Queen! How Mária Telkes And Her Radical Design Modeled A New Future.

— Published: March 27, 2023 | Kirstin Butler

Mária Telkes outside of the Dover Sun House, 1949. Ralph Morse/LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock

Celebrated LIFE Magazine photographer Ralph Morse captured scores of notable Americans—actress Audrey Hepburn posing with the Oscar she won for the film “Roman Holiday,” baseball legend Jackie Robinson stealing home base at the 1955 World Series, astronaut John Glenn suiting up for space—but before all of them came the “Sun Queen,” and her house.

In the winter of 1949, LIFE sent Morse to Dover, Massachusetts to train his lens on Mária Telkes, a Hungarian-born inventor and chemical engineer who earned that regal nickname for her relentless pursuit of solar technology. As a freshman at the University of Budapest, Telkes had read a book called Energy Sources of the Future, about the sun’s vast potential to meet human energy needs. “This was the deciding moment,” she said later. “The book described experiments, mostly conducted in the United States, and therefore this was the place for me.”

After receiving her doctorate in physical chemistry in 1924, Telkes immigrated to the U.S., where she worked as a biophysicist at the Cleveland Clinic. She then joined Westinghouse Electric as a research engineer, developing thermocouples that could transform heat energy into electricity. While at Westinghouse she heard about an initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that aligned with her desire to harness the sun’s power. She wrote to MIT’s solar project asking for a job, and when hired in 1939, became the project’s sole woman.

It wasn’t only gender that differentiated Telkes from many of her colleagues. While they focused on academic analysis, she was practical-minded; Telkes was interested in the widest real-world applications of solar-powered technology. She was also strong-willed, and her penchant for self-promotion put her at odds with the MIT project’s leadership. Finally, Telkes decided to forge her own path—and found two new collaborators.

She identified a patron in Amelia Peabody, an heiress who owned hundreds of acres in Dover, Massachusetts, a rural town about 45 minutes outside of Boston. Years earlier, Peabody, who was also a sculptor, had commissioned Boston architect Eleanor Raymond to design a sculpture studio on her Dover estate. Like Telkes, Raymond was herself a pioneer in a nearly all-male field. The three women now teamed up to realize Telkes’s ambition: a home relying on nothing but the sun for its heat.

The May 1949 issue of LIFE Magazine included an illustration of Telkes’s innovative design for keeping the Dover Sun House warm.

The main challenge vexing MIT’s theoreticians and pragmatists alike was the question of energy storage. Capturing the sun’s heat was one thing, but storing it for use on cloudy days was, Telkes noted in a 1949 paper, “the critical problem.” She saw a potential solution in phase-changing materials—chemical compounds that held or released heat when changing form from solid to liquid, and back. Specifically, Telkes was interested in a substance called Glauber’s salt.

A sodium form of sulfuric acid given the name sal mirabile, or miraculous salt, by the German scientist who first synthesized it, Glauber’s salt was solid until it reached 90o Fahrenheit, at which point it liquified. When the salt cooled down again, it recrystallized, releasing all of the stored heat it absorbed. In the Dover design, Telkes placed 4,275 gallons of the salts in drums inside the home’s walls; fans then blew the hot air through the house via ducts.

On Christmas Eve 1948, the home’s new inhabitants moved into what came to be known as the Dover Sun House. The two-bedroom structure was wedge-shaped with its living areas on the first floor. The second story consisted of 18 windows facing south, for maximum sun exposure. Behind the windows were black painted panels to maximize absorption of the sun’s rays; this solar-generated heat was then used to heat up the Glauber’s salt, which then performed its miraculous task. Telkes had succeeded in realizing the world’s first fully solar-powered home.

The Sun House quickly became a landmark. Twice a week, thousands of visitors arrived for tours. The media also came calling. LIFE sent its top photojournalist to capture Telkes’s brainchild, which struck as dramatic a pose in its environment as she did in her fur coat before it. “Its stark, modern lines stand out in the New England countryside,” noted the May 1949 issue of Popular Science, which featured an illustration of the home on the front cover. Andrew Nemethy was three years old when he and his parents took up residence in the Sun House. “By mid-century architectural standards, it might as well have been dropped in the middle of a field by aliens,” he wrote in the Boston Globe, 70 years after his family’s part in Telkes’s experiment.

The March 1949 issue of Popular Science magazine featured a stylized illustration of the Sun House on its cover.

Eventually, however, the experiment began to fail. Glauber’s salt had a few problems: Over successive heating and cooling cycles, it stratified permanently into solid and liquid components, requiring the bins to be replaced. The salt was also corrosive, and began to leak from its metal containers. Midway through the home’s third winter, the heating system broke down.

For Telkes, however, perfection was never the point. She understood the necessity of exciting the public imagination about the possibilities of solar power. “Each new house,” she explained in 1950, “is another experimental stepping stone toward the use of the sun as a fuel resource.” Before the adoption of a new technology, people needed to be sold on its value—its glamour, even. If cutting a fashionable figure in front of the Sun House quickened support of solar energy, she would play to the camera.

When Ralph Morse first set out to become a photographer, one of his first jobs was at Harper’s Bazaar magazine. After only three days, though, he quit—according to his 2015 New York Times obituary, “he found fashion shoots vapid.” The image he captured of Mária Telkes could just as easily have appeared in Vogue as in LIFE, but in this case Morse’s subject satisfied his need for substance. Mária Telkes wanted nothing less than to transform the way society got the power it needed to thrive. “It is the things supposed to be impossible that interest me,” she once said. “I like to do things they say cannot be done.”

#The Sun Queen #Article #From The Collections: A Thousand Words | The Environment #NOVS | PBS #Mária Telkes

[jennifersblog-en]

Book recommendation:

The Sun Queen, Christian Jacq, historical novel

Here is a beautiful interpretation of life in Ancient Egypt, during the era of Akhenaten et Tutankhamun.

Warning and negative point: pedophile point-of-view, teenage queen.

#book recommendations #novel #book #the sun queen #Christian Jacq #historical novel #ancient egypt #akhenaten #tutankhamun #ancient history #pharaohs #jennifersblog

[ranchdressing3]

this clip has me in hysterics. Tupp going “YOYOYOYOYOYO WAITWAITWAIT I CANT CLIMB THAT FAST” and Rapp just GLIDING effortlessly up the cliff is SENDING ME

#pokemon #pokeani #anipoke #pokemon sun and moon #plumeria #team skull #tupp #rapp #my girl defied the laws of physics and she looks delighted doing it #oh and plumeria.. my queen.. every moment she’s on screen i worship her

[lenbryant]

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the birthday of The Sun Queen!

#The Sun Queen #google doodles #maria telkes #science #solar energy #solar power

[sunshine-zenith]

Something about Ambrosius’s reaction to cutting off Ballister’s arm

He drops his sword and looks like his mind went off line before doing a hard reboot. He acted on his lifelong training before he could process that the weapon he was “disarming” was attached to the man he loves. He looks dumbfounded and horrified, and sure some of that is probably “oh shit the queen is dead” and “did my boyfriend just murder someone?”

But

This face, the way he looks at Ballister here. I’m not seeing “what did you do?!” I’m seeing “What have I done?!”

#‘arm chopping is not a love lang-OH RIGHT THE QUEEN IS DEAD’ #Ambrosius goldenloin #nimona #nimona movie #meta #the sun shines #spoilers #broke 100 #broke 500 #broke 1000 #cy meta

[winterpower98]

These were originally meant for Valentine's day, but oh well

#lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk #monkey king #sun wukong #six eared macaque #liu er mihou #spider queen #zhizhu #mk #qi xiaotian #mei #long xiaojiao #red son #redson #eclipse twins #ri shi #yue shi #oc #Nightshade #spicynoodleshipping #chimerashipping #dragonfruitshipping #shadowpeach #shadowvenom #three bastardeers #sugarplumpoison #doodles #digital art #sai

[rileyclaw]

new TOH animatic on my channel!

#stares into the horizon. i dont think ive seen the sun in 4 days #(it's been raining) #the owl house #toh #animatic #hunter toh #del clawthorne #bat queen #video #toh spoilers #toh season 3 #toh season 3 spoilers #watching and dreaming #toh series finale #courtesy tags bc it. deals with stuff from the epilogue scene LMAO fdhsjf #eartucks cutely and sprints off into oblivion #sorry for my inactivity this month i had covid then finals THEN the flu all back to back #it was insanity #Youtube

[sunpinktulip]

I may have been binging LMK after my finals

#mei #lmk mei #red son #lmk red son #mk #lmk mk #lego monkie kid #macaque #lmk macaque #lmk #sun wukong #lmk sun wukong #monkie king #sandy #lmk sandy #spider queen #lmk spider queen

[myhotbabesworldreblogs]

#mikayla demaiter #in motion #triple a rating #amazing body #perfection #ultimate sex machine #so damn sexy #beautiful ass #perfect butt #fit girls #18+ only #sun bed #supreme sex queen #sweet juicy peach

[pien-art]

Sun Queen Moiraine (x)

would she be a good queen? no. do i want to put her in the situation? yea <33

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prints available here!

#one of those drawings i could work on for a billion more days #but it will drive me crazy lol so ive decided it is finished #my art #wot #the wheel of time #wheel of time #sun queen moiraine #moiraine damodred #moiraine sedai #frank dicksee #the two crowns #cairhien #sun queen au #fanart #wot fanart

[kotocorey]

*sirius and james arguing*

sirius: I hate you!

james: I hate you too!

sirius:

James:

sirius: *sobbing* you what?

#james potter #sirius black #marauders era #starchaser #wolfstar #sunseeker #moony wormtail padfoot and prongs #sirius is a drama queen #james is the sun

[siriuslylovejegulus33]

Regulus and Remus: *Reading books and cuddled up together*

Sirius: Oh my god, James *teary eyed*

James: So precious *hand on his mouth*

Remus: I'm a fucking wereworlf

Regulus: I can put a dagger in you in less than a second

Sirius and James: *Hug eachother and sob*

#james potter is a simp #james potter had a dagger kink #sirius black is gay #regulus black incorrect quotes #remus lupin is funny #remus lupin #regulus black #james x regulus #james potter #james potter is the sun #regulus kinnie #sirius is a drama queen #remus x sirius #sirius black #starchaser #sunchaser #sunseeker #jegulus #wolfstar #marauders era #hp marauders #marauders #atyd fandom #gay harry potter #they're gay and in love #they're in love your honor #marauders incorrect quotes #im obsessed #james is the sun #regulus black is a little shit

[lavenderskye29]

Hello! Um soo here's a fun fact: humans are actually able to learn to purr.

So in your Twice as bad au and/or Bad end Wukong au...what would be their reaction to learning that reader is able to purr?

Let's say reader is sleeping, they notice it and decide to cuddle reader. And then suddenly! They can hear her purring in her sleep in response for cuddling.

I do'know it sounds cute/funny in my mind...

Have a nice day~

(So I want to preface my response to this question by saying that the Twice as Bad/Bad End AU does not belong to me, nor did I have any hand in creating it. @semisolidmind is the creator of that amazing au, so direct any/all questions concerning it to her!)

I used the yandere monkey babes, hope that works!

#plum princess #monkey queen #yandere #ask #my art #sun wukong #six eared macaque

[unhelpfultarot]

The Sun and Queen of Wands

Some of us are glad because we get to go outside and play, and some of us are glad because everybody else has gone outside, so we can finally get some work done.

#tarot #rider-waite-smith #the sun #queen of wands

[sersh]

CAILEE SPAENY Hair styled by Kiley Fitzgerald and makeup by Loren Canby ahead of the Civil War LA Premiere, April 2nd 2024

#cailee spaeny #cspaenyedit #caileespaenyedit #is the sun bothering you my queen? #womenedit #userladiesblr #userladiesofcinema #dailywomen #femalestunning #civil war #civilwarcastedit #civilwaredit #a24 #userstream #userbbelcher #chewieblog #usercline #tusermary #tusersadie #tuseremmy #usermyr #glamoroussource #femalegifsource #flawlesscelebs #thequeensofbeauty #actoredit #gifset #my edit