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motti

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What Happened to A123?

The boring details of manufacturing execution, and quality manufacturing builds are less interesting to R&D folks.   a123 with no FTO ( freedom to... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:51 AM EDT

Why SolarCity Is Succeeding in a Difficult Solar Industry

so this article is sensible, but at odds to the (false) thesis implicit in "Can We Build Tomorrow's Breakthroughs " (... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 4, 2012 at 1:05 PM EDT

A Tough Tip for Nano Manipulation

motti first read this .... http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5393647.html Which describes CVD coating modification of AFM tips, mentioning... (read full comment)  

Posted on February 10, 2012 at 12:15 PM EST

Can We Build Tomorrow's Breakthroughs?

Gerbil Wheel of Innovation is a fools race Manufacturing - China beats us with OLD technology and near slave labor costs. Innovation will not... (read full comment)  

Posted on December 25, 2011 at 8:22 PM EST

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The Chinese Solar Machine

Kevin, Fundamentally the equipment capital purchases and electrical energy to run the plants in China is near free money from the Chinese... (read full comment)  

Posted on December 25, 2011 at 11:34 PM EST

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Building Bigger, Better Wind Turbines

long ago,PRIOR, a gearless Windmill was born windtronics.com a Honeywell spinoff, makes a decent modest price windmill, using their knoggin.... (read full comment)  

Posted on July 6, 2011 at 9:12 AM EDT

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Cheaper High-Efficiency Solar Panels

From the vague description, I suspect this is a variant of a technique called ?directional gradient freeze ( crystal growth), merely a variant of... (read full comment)  

Posted on July 6, 2011 at 9:59 AM EDT

Was the Space Shuttle a Mistake?

GEEZ... Is everything from the government bad? I think the thesis is a canard. NASA and the shuttle team were near brilliant, successful in many... (read full comment)  

Posted on July 6, 2011 at 9:49 AM EDT

Solar Thermal Plants Losing out to Photovoltaics

Steam Solar Thermal vs ...Molten Salt If one bothers to understand in a little more than newspaper press release depth, most solar thermal did not... (read full comment)  

Posted on July 5, 2011 at 6:38 PM EDT

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U.S. Government Backs Concentrated Photovoltaics

sometimes TechReview is funny the statement > "A relatively new type of solar power called concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) technology " Begs the... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 13, 2011 at 9:42 AM EDT

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