scalarparty ([info]scalarparty) wrote,
@ 2006-03-06 13:12:00
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Plus ça change, plus ça reste la même
Former CIA head spook R. James Woolsey gets standing ovation from Hippies in Eugene Oregon!
JRW
According to Eugene's Register Guard, North American Industrial Hemp Council board member (and former CIA head under Clinton) R. James Woolsey wows 'em with what imnsho seemed like a piecemeal call to Biofuels and Ethanol... Meh...


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off topic (wish LJ would let mutual friends send emails...)
[info]mythalethe
2006-03-08 08:10 pm UTC (link)
Please just delete this comment after reading... I looked back through your past 100 posts, and didn't see anything about this story. This is from Feb 11.

Have you seen this solar tech:
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=vn20060211110132138C184427

here's an exerpt:
A team of scientists led by University of Johannesburg (formerly Rand Afrikaans University) scientist Professor Vivian Alberts achieved the breakthrough after 10 years of research. The South African technology has now been patented across the world.

One of the world leaders in solar energy, German company IFE Solar Systems, has invested more than R500-million in the South African invention and is set to manufacture 500 000 of the panels before the end of the year at a new plant in Germany.

Production will start next month and the factory will run 24 hours a day, producing more than 1 000 panels a day to meet expected demand.

Another large German solar company is negotiating with the South African inventors for rights to the technology, while a South African consortium of businesses are keen to build local factories.

The new, highly efficient and cheap alloy solar panel is much more efficient than the costly old silicone solar panels.

International experts have admitted that nothing else comes close to the effectiveness of the South African invention.

The South African solar panels consist of a thin layer of a unique metal alloy that converts light into energy. The photo-responsive alloy can operate on virtually all flexible surfaces, which means it could in future find a host of other applications.

Alberts said the new panels are approximately five microns thick (a human hair is 20 microns thick) while the older silicon panels are 350 microns thick. the cost of the South African technology is a fraction of the less effective silicone solar panels.

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[info]mira_ianthe
2006-03-11 02:09 pm UTC (link)
hey! i just wanted to tell you i need to design a building/city for my conceptual arts lessons:) its has to be 'impossible but not unthinkable':)

and i thought immediately that i wanted it greener than green. i want to give my building a greenroof and a living wall for example. so thanks a lot for the information that you share. way easier than searching all over (and that isn't even that hard nowadays haha).
i think i will post pics when im done!

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