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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Solar Heat Engine to be 60% Efficient
One of the most surprising things about this new invention is that it was (in a roundabout way) inspired by the SuperSoaker. Lonnie Johnson, the man who made “squirt gun” synonymous with inadequacy, is currently working on a prototype heat engine which would use heat from the sun to force hydrogen ions through a [...]
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Nanosolar Breaks $4 a Watt by a Long Shot.
Nanolsolar Inc. has been talking big lately about making a leap in solar panel technology that will drop the cost to under $1 a watt. The current standard for solar panels has been hovering around $4 a watt (wholesale cost) for a while.
Well, on December 18th Nanosolar announced their first shipment of solar panels [...]
