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First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt

July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 39 vote(s) | User comments: 20

Photovoltaic cells, once so costly they could be used only to power million-dollar satellites, are today turning up even on humble parking meters. Now a brash Tempe, Ariz., company called First Solar plans to take the technology ...


Hitachi, GE to develop smaller nuclear reactors

July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 20

Japan's Hitachi and US giant General Electric will team up to sell midsize nuclear reactors to meet growing demand for power facilities in Southeast Asia, a Hitachi spokesman said Wednesday.


Closing the hydrogen economic loop

July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 31 vote(s) | User comments: 6

The inventor of the nickel metal hydride (NiMH) technology used for building batteries for countless portable electronic gadgets and now hybrid gas-electric cars believes the hydrogen economy is already upon us.