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Tesla project powers an island.
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Renewable energy races ahead.
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A renewable sourse of heating.
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A printable solar ink was created.
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Intelligent designers with 21st Century energy plans.
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Tesla bets the farm on renewable energy.
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Cutting-edge developments will expand solar power.
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Solar power from artificial plants? Perhaps!
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Sometimes scientific and engineering discoveries can seem more like magic than the products of disciplined investigations.
Nothing could be closer to this than the results announced by materials researchers at MIT. They have just produced photovoltaic (PV) cells printed directly onto special copy paper like you would find in any office printer. The result produced is Paper power, you might say.
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On Abbey Road The Beatles sang:
Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the Sun, here comes the Sun
and I say it's all right
We should all be singing "it's all right" after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced the creation of transparent solar cells. If this new MIT technology proves amenable to industrial scale, we could see the entire surface area of a building's windows turn into ...
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Solar energy is plentiful, limitless, arrives free of charge as the sun rises, and may finally be coming into its own as a source of renewable electricity.
A graph prepared by the German Advisory Council on Global Change shows 21st Century growth projections for solar power in comparison to other energy resources. The percentage contribution from solar constantly increases.
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