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Solar Startup Semprius Sets a New Efficiency Record

Solar Startup Semprius Sets a New Efficiency Record

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Semprius, a startup that makes miniscule solar cells capable of capturing concentrated sunlight without costly cooling systems, announced this week that it had made the world's most efficient solar panel. The company's solar panels use tiny solar cell...…

MIT Researchers Find a Way To Make Solar Panels from Grass Clippings

MIT Researchers Find a Way To Make Solar Panels from Grass Clippings

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What if generating solar energy at home required little more than mixing some grass clippings with inexpensive chemicals? That’s exactly what MIT researcher Andreas Mershin has found to be the case. The scientist says creating a solar cell could be...…

In the Developing World, Solar Is Cheaper than Fossil Fuels

In the Developing World, Solar Is Cheaper than Fossil Fuels

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The falling cost of LED lighting, batteries, and solar panels, together with innovative business plans, are allowing millions of households in Africa and elsewhere to switch from crude kerosene lamps to cleaner and safer electric lighting. For many, t...…

Ron Paul: An Intellectual Revolution?

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The thought crossed my mind in sixth grade, it was the first year of Middle School and views on politics consisted basically of whatever Rush Limbaugh said because that’s who dad listened to. Doing the math, that would have put me at the age of 12 and it was 1994(ish),…

Outsmarting the “Free” Market

Outsmarting the “Free” Market

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This is not a problem limited to one State. It is an international problem affecting large areas from Maine to California, and countries around the world. Some things should be uninvented – DES, HRT, GMOs, hexachlorophene in infants’ soap, nuclear power plants, nuclear weapons, etc. Now a new threat, the…

Washington’s Countdown to War

Washington’s Countdown to War

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The Iranian people know what it means to earn the enmity of the global godfather. As William Blum documented in Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, 1953′s CIA-organized coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, guilty of the “crime” of nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company,…