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		<title>Parasolar concept gathers energy while keeping you cool</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Parasolar concept by Oded Shorer serves two purposes &#8211; it keeps you cool by providing shade on those hot, sunny days while generating power from the very sunlight it is blocking. It folds up into a case that can be used to carry it with ease. When in use, Parasolar plugs into the carrying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheaper solar cells on the way</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emanuel Sachs, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, has found a way to improve the efficiency of a type of silicon solar cells while keeping manufacturing costs about the same. 1366 Technologies, founded in part by Sachs, claims that it has improved the efficiency of its new multicrystalline silicon solar cells by 27 percent, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists develop superconducting material that doesn&#8217;t need cooling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of Canadian and German scientists have found a way to fabricate a superconducting material, made of a silicon-hydrogen compound, that does not require cooling. They say that the breakthrough means we will be able to cut the power usage of all sorts of devices from refrigerators to cell phones. This new material is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar-power paint to make its way onto steel buildings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists at England&#8217;s Swansea University are working to develop a paint which can be quickly applied to large steels sheets to generate power from the sun beaming down on them. This paint would be suited to warehouses and other buildings that are commonly covered with steel sheets.  It is based on dye-sensitised solar cells. Although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DORmino mouse powers itself from your laptop&#8217;s heat</title>
		<link>http://sparkingtech.com/gadgets/dormino-mouse-powers-itself-from-your-laptops-heat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Designers from Singapore have come up with a concept mouse that can use the heat generated by a laptop to power itself. The DORmino mouse works by placing an oversize mousepad under a laptop which then collects the extra heat and turns it into electricity using silicon nanowires. The electricity is then sent to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists discover way to make solar cells more efficient, last longer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polymer solar cells that are used today to convert sunlight to electricity degrade over time because of ultraviolet light. Scientists at UCLA have found a solution to that problem. They suggested coating solar cells with a material that converts photons of ultraviolet light into ones of visible light. Such a material would increase the efficiency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New solar cell creates hydrogen directly from water</title>
		<link>http://sparkingtech.com/tech-sci-news/new-solar-cell-creates-hydrogen-directly-from-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Penn State scientists have created a new type of solar cell that mimics photosynthesis to produce hydrogen gas directly from water. Unfortunately, the prototype is inefficient, able to use only about 1% of the light energy falling on it for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen gases. The scientists believe that with some optimization they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar streetlight lights up only when people are around</title>
		<link>http://sparkingtech.com/design/solar-streetlight-lights-up-only-when-people-are-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Levin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mauricio Clavero has designed a street lamp that is solar powered and only uses a third of its energy unless its built-in motion detectors sense someone walking by. The lamp is built using LEDs and can be placed in area with no access to electricity due to its attached solar panels. It comes in two [...]]]></description>
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