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Submission + - Walmart picks CA and HI for Solar

Submitted by

mdsolar

on Sunday May 13, 2007 @07:34PM

mdsolar writes: "Walmart has picked three companies: BP Solar, SunEdison, and PowerLight from its RFP to install solar power on some of its stores. In this pilot project, 22 store roofs will produce 20 GWH per year (2.3 MW) in California and Hawaii. According to BP Solar, Walmart will save on electricity costs with installations that can cover up to 30% of a store's power use. This news comes at a time when a new concentrator design for roof top solar is being touted as costing half as much (88% less silicon) as the panels used by these three companies in the MIT Technology Review, with deliveries for this kind of application expected this year. Is is coincidence, or does Walmart always fire the starting gun for a race to the bottom on price?"

Submission + - LG.Philips Develops World's First Color E-Paper

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13, 2007 @07:34PM

An anonymous reader writes: LG.Philips LCD developed the world's first 14.1-inch flexible color E-paper display, equivalent in size to an A4 sheet of paper.
The 14.1-inch flexible color E-paper uses electronic ink from E-Ink Corp. to produce a maximum of 4,096 colors. It can be viewed from a full 180 degrees, so that images always appear crisp, even when the display is bent.

Submission + - Intel's AMD-ATI-Fusion killer: Nehalem

Submitted by

melaheN

on Sunday May 13, 2007 @05:15AM

melaheN writes: "So what it AMD-ATI plans to release the Fusion project in the future, just release the same thing earlier! Seems that Intel's planning to do that with the next core architecture called Nehalem or perhaps even earlier with the Penryn core architecture. There have been reports from IDF Beijing stating such possibility but the latest source here pretty much confirms such a project from Intel. Interesting to see how AMD responds next."

Submission + - First map of an extrasolar planet

Submitted by

jiawen

on Sunday May 13, 2007 @04:18AM

jiawen writes: "Data from the Spitzer Space Telescope has been used by researchers to make the first-ever map of an extrasolar planet. It's a weather map, more precisely, showing temperature variations over the surface of a Hot Jupiter, HD 189733 b (more, more). It really is hot: even the coldest regions are about 1200 degrees F."

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