In yet more good news for the solar power industry figures recently released by a leading market research group have predicted that the global market for solar panels will reach £46bn by 2017.
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Tuesday, 06 December 2011 00:23
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Sunday, 04 December 2011 19:26
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At some point in the near future a satellite orbiting the Earth will gently open a solar array like an unfolding flower and power from the Sun will pour down from it to both the Earth and the Moon, science fiction?
No , not one bit.
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Thursday, 28 October 2010 01:11
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Thursday, 28 October 2010 01:11
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A breakthrough in battery technology means that talcum powder could soon have a more important role as a power source for modern medicines than protecing against nappy rash.
In yet another odd twist of modern science, it has been found that the raw ingredients of talcum powder can be used to make high tech batteries, and in the process saving patients lives and the NHS millions of pounds.
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Tuesday, 19 October 2010 00:12
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Tuesday, 19 October 2010 00:12
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Advanced information overlay technology has long been the preserve of futuristic film and TV fantasies. Here, Peter Warren, reveals how a pioneering California-based company is turning science fiction into hi-tech reality for the masses via its online data-fusion system – with huge implications for the way we view the world.
Ten years ago, the now defunct 3D company Silicon Graphics put together a 3D astral model of the Milky Way for the American Museum of Natural History.
Called the Digital Galaxy Project, the model allowed visitors to fly through our galaxy, marvelling at the sheer size and scale of the system to which our planet belongs, and of which it is such a tiny part.
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:23
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:23
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Satnavs have stripped the idea of being lost from the language
When the UK’s mainstream media dwell, hesitantly, upon technology (in between its worthier deliberations on the weighty issues of the day – such as which football player has slept with who, or its first hand knowledge of the working of the minds of politicians and princes) it is only to remark on which technology you must have.
You will seldom hear the mainstream stop to ponder on the significance of a device like a mobile phone or the Satnav – or what an unusual thing a international conference call is.
Which is a shame because the field is rich.
Now its easy to know your way around
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Monday, 20 September 2010 22:52
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Monday, 20 September 2010 22:52
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A handheld mixing desk
Fifty years ago the road to pop super-stardom started with a practice session in a pub, soon it will happen in a studio on the internet and we could all be doing it.
Rather than coming from towns like Liverpool or London according to some of the music industry’s top gurus the Beatles and Rolling Stones of the future will be drawn via the internet from all corners of the world and could even use their mobile phones as mixing desks.
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Monday, 20 September 2010 22:37
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Monday, 20 September 2010 22:37
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Virtual technology is being hailed by experts as one of the possible answers to the credit crunch, as web designers look for that extra wow factor that can give their sites the edge in the economic downturn.
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Monday, 20 September 2010 22:27
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The system, which uses autostereoscopic display technology, will be the first time that 3D technology has made it to a mobile for commercial use, and is capable of full resolution, according to Bill Bryan, technical manager of 3M’s St Paul, Minnesota-based Display and Graphics lab.
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