
In this age of portable electronic devices, who has the time to find a power source? People are growing more and more mobile, spending as much time about town as at home. At the same time, we carry more battery-powered electronics with us as well, from cell phones to MP3 players to laptops. Therefore a rather ironic conflict between individual and electronic mobility arises. If you’re always on the go, how do you have time to charge all these electronic devices?
Perhaps someday the solar cell phone will catch on, but in the meantime designer Jonathan Globerson thinks he has the answer : the free solar charging station. Designed to be made from retreated bamboo, Globerson hopes his solar charging stations will pepper the urban landscape of the near future, offering the fast-paced populace a free power source for recharging their laptops and cell phones , devices which have moved from luxuries to necessities for the modern worker.
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Last week Applied Materials, Inc. released a new wire saw that promises to help solar cell manufacturers cut wafer production costs and lower solar panel prices at the end of the line as well. The Applied HCT MaxEdge wire saw could help lower manufacturing costs for photovoltaic solar cells by as much as 18 cents per watt .
The new saw allows thinner wafers to be cut, which allows less silicon per solar cell, which in turn should lower solar panel cost by allowing for less silicon — by far the most expensive part of the process for first generation solar cells . (more…)