This year could bring the Silicon Valley-funded renaissance in solar power we've all been waiting for. First, San Jose-based Nanosolar began delivering its affordable thin-film solar coating, followed by a construction boom in American solar thermal power plants—essentially the reflective equivalent of geothermal power. Now, for the first time, the solar cell revolution is arriving by droplet.
Konarka Technologies, the Massachusetts-based company we first recognized with a 2005 Breakthrough Award for its affordable Power Plastic solar film, said this week that it has successfully manufactured those thin solar cells using an inkjet printer. In addition to decreasing production costs because it relies on existing inkjet technology, the printable Power Plastic cells can be applied to a range of small-scale, highly variable power opportunities, from indoor sensors to small RFID installations.
With printers now capable of producing solar cells, other companies might be able to use plastics and other colors in developing new kinds of power-packing film. But the inkjet process is just one of several different manufacturing techniques Konarka has been busy demonstrating for its solar collectors over the last three years. "Compared to current PV technologies, the Power Plastic has an advantage in flexibility, greater sensitivity to low light and versatility," Konarka president and CEO Rick Hess says of the film cells, which are fused from liquid containing semiconducting polymers.
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Friday, March 07, 2008
Designer rings
As any woman, I love jewellery.
But I adore rings.
And nothing allures me more than diamonds.
Their sparkling rainbow of colours when you show a well cut diamond in the light has a magic touch for me.
As if you could catch the whole light in a small spot.
But of course it MUST be a real diamond and also done with artistic craftsmanship.
There is a huge difference between a normal ring and one hand crafted by an expert artisan.
And if you mean your engagement forever you should also invest in a ring that will LAST forever.
That is why Tacori's Designer Engagement Rings are unique, elegant, glamorous and stylish.
That is the reason why they have been featured in TV shows like Desperate Housewives and Extreme Makeover and by celebrities like Ashanti and Christina Applegate.
And you can choose the type and size that better fits your needs (and your pocket of course).
But you can be sure that it will last as long as (may be much more)your love.
But I adore rings.
And nothing allures me more than diamonds.
Their sparkling rainbow of colours when you show a well cut diamond in the light has a magic touch for me.
As if you could catch the whole light in a small spot.
But of course it MUST be a real diamond and also done with artistic craftsmanship.
There is a huge difference between a normal ring and one hand crafted by an expert artisan.
And if you mean your engagement forever you should also invest in a ring that will LAST forever.
That is why Tacori's Designer Engagement Rings are unique, elegant, glamorous and stylish.
That is the reason why they have been featured in TV shows like Desperate Housewives and Extreme Makeover and by celebrities like Ashanti and Christina Applegate.
And you can choose the type and size that better fits your needs (and your pocket of course).
But you can be sure that it will last as long as (may be much more)your love.
Something's Gotta Give
Nicholson plays his usual part of a half misanthropist who is an old age playboy and Diane Keaton the prude mother that surprisingly rediscovers sex at 56, but it is not sex, it's love.
A little bit confusing with mothers and daughters who swap boy friends and fathers that marry their wife's college friend's daughters and young men (doctors) who fall in love for twenty years older women.
But in the end, nature prevails and people come to terms with their age (and illnesses) and choice of partners.
Lesson of the movie: do not mix up with too young partners and do not abuse Viagra.
Technology is good, but abused could kill you (heart attack).
Love is what makes the world go on and people sleep eight hours.
Between sex and love, love is , as usual, the winner and Something's Gotta Give.
Patrizia The Movie Whisperer
A little bit confusing with mothers and daughters who swap boy friends and fathers that marry their wife's college friend's daughters and young men (doctors) who fall in love for twenty years older women.
But in the end, nature prevails and people come to terms with their age (and illnesses) and choice of partners.
Lesson of the movie: do not mix up with too young partners and do not abuse Viagra.
Technology is good, but abused could kill you (heart attack).
Love is what makes the world go on and people sleep eight hours.
Between sex and love, love is , as usual, the winner and Something's Gotta Give.
Patrizia The Movie Whisperer
Learn from many Fortune 100 companies...
Anybody who has to deal with a lot of email every day knows how painful it can be to administer all the accounts and servers as well as all the archives.
Finally there is software available which helps a lot to handle all these necessary tasks in an easy and effective way - called email archiving services.
Whatever your policies and rules are (group based, account based, content based), there is a solution for all of them.
You also can search for criterias in the mail subject, body and even the attachments.
All known viruses can be eliminated before they can harm your computers while opening infected messages.
Sometimes it is important to know where all your physical mail files are (PST etc.) –
it is a children’s game with these utilities.
There are also features which help you to save storage space as you can automatically zip attachments of a certain size.
Depending on the rules set up you also can move less important mail content to slower and cheaper drives/devices instead of occupying expensive space on high level drives.
Important is also that
- this software runs platform independent
- it has not to be installed on the server
- you can run everything from your workstation
To find out all the features which could be important to your needs, you can ask for a 30 day trial.
Finally there is software available which helps a lot to handle all these necessary tasks in an easy and effective way - called email archiving services.
Whatever your policies and rules are (group based, account based, content based), there is a solution for all of them.
You also can search for criterias in the mail subject, body and even the attachments.
All known viruses can be eliminated before they can harm your computers while opening infected messages.
Sometimes it is important to know where all your physical mail files are (PST etc.) –
it is a children’s game with these utilities.
There are also features which help you to save storage space as you can automatically zip attachments of a certain size.
Depending on the rules set up you also can move less important mail content to slower and cheaper drives/devices instead of occupying expensive space on high level drives.
Important is also that
- this software runs platform independent
- it has not to be installed on the server
- you can run everything from your workstation
To find out all the features which could be important to your needs, you can ask for a 30 day trial.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
When technology marries underwear
The issue of fancy men's underwear is still threatening to undermine this great country.
Andrew Christian has unveiled his new, horrific men's underwear with Flashback Butt-Lifting and Contouring Technology. He promises that it "gives men the illusion of having a sought-after "bubble butt" without having to spend hours in the gym."
Great John Wayne's ghost, is a bubble butt now sought-after among men?!?
An actual quote from the designer, who is suspected by me to be working with the terrorists: "Surprisingly, I was actually inspired to create this technology while at the gym and seeing how hard men work on exercising their buttocks.
I just knew that there had to be a way to achieve similar results by simply wearing underwear." Good. God. After the jump, before and after pictures of the new underwear technology at work. We beg you, do not be seduced.
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Andrew Christian has unveiled his new, horrific men's underwear with Flashback Butt-Lifting and Contouring Technology. He promises that it "gives men the illusion of having a sought-after "bubble butt" without having to spend hours in the gym."
Great John Wayne's ghost, is a bubble butt now sought-after among men?!?
An actual quote from the designer, who is suspected by me to be working with the terrorists: "Surprisingly, I was actually inspired to create this technology while at the gym and seeing how hard men work on exercising their buttocks.
I just knew that there had to be a way to achieve similar results by simply wearing underwear." Good. God. After the jump, before and after pictures of the new underwear technology at work. We beg you, do not be seduced.
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