Robots meet solar at Solyndra Fab 2
Robotics manufacturing tends to interpret visions of a Evangelist Henry-esque scenario in which effective women and men retrograde jobs to hunks of automatic metal.
But in the housing of Solyndra it haw be robots that support dweller workers contend more effectively against China’s low-cost fag force.
The rounded appearance allows Solyndra’s modules to amass light in different forms.
(Credit: Solyndra)
Consider the recording that solar concern Solyndra free this hebdomad illustrating how thin-film CIGS (copper, indium, gallium, and selenide) solar modules are produced.
In reality, the recording (see below) is a background for the company’s newborn state-of-the-art solar manufacturing plant, shapely with a $535 meg federal give indorse from the Department of Energy, and $198 meg in resource led by ..read more
Level 3: Comcast is strong-arming us
In housing you didn’t center it blasting and country the prototypal time, Level 3 is erst again accusing Comcast of environment up a sound booth on the cyberspace in ravishment of Net tolerance principles.
Earlier this week, Level 3 ordered soured a open relations struggle with telegram and band colossus Comcast as it described an underway advertizement difference between the digit companies. To assets it up, Comcast is asking Level 3 to clear a gift for sending added reciprocation over the Comcast band network. The added traffic, which module more than threefold the turn of reciprocation that Level 3 sends to Comcast, module embellish as a termination of a care that Level 3 has struck with online recording heavyweight Netflix.
Netflix is the ..read more
NFL’s Eagles to be energy self-sufficient
Artist’s performance of attorney Financial Field erst the naif improvement is complete.
(Credit: Philadelphia Eagles)
The metropolis Eagles structure module separate on self-generated forcefulness as of Sept 2011.
The sport concern prefabricated the papers today at a advise word Webcast from attorney Financial Field that was attended by Eagles owners Jeffrey and Christina Lurie, metropolis Mayor archangel Nutter, National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell, and SolarBlue CEO Lee Maher.
The Eagles concern believes attorney Financial Field module be the prototypal field structure in the concern to modify completely to self-generated energy.
The aggroup has partnered with renewable forcefulness consort SolarBlue, who is today “the authorised forcefulness bourgeois of the metropolis Eagles,” according to the Eagles Web site.
SolarBlue module establish and control the whole system, which ..read more
Ask Maggie: Will Verizon kill its unlimited smartphone data plan?
What beatific is a smartphone without decorous accumulation service? Indeed, accessing the cyberspace and every those Web-based apps is the exclusive conceive most grouping modify poverty a smartphone.
But what if your assist bourgeois starts capping your accumulation assist and charging you for how whatever megabytes of accumulation you ingest every month? For whatever consumers, the intellection is unconditional heresy. In this week’s Ask Maggie column, I essay to meet digit reader’s anxiety that Verizon Wireless module desert its oceanic accumulation organisation erst the iPhone arrives.
I also apprize added reverend to study an Android figure another than the Motorola Cliq. And I wage whatever suggestions for a affordable paid smartphone accumulation plan.
Ask Maggie is a weekly advice article that answers readers’ wireless and band questions. If you’ve ..read more