Showing posts with label nuclear power plants. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Cheap Photovoltaics Wins MIT Clean Energy Prize

While our screens are brittle, theirs is flexible - at what they say is one tenth the price.

Another came up with a new technique to reengineer concrete at the molecular scale a process they say makes it stronger and uses significantly less energy. The students say their technology could save the equivalent output of 100 nuclear power plants p.a.

Source:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=cheap-photovoltaics-wins-mit-clean-10-05-12