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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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Combined with a Chinese manufacturing boom, that lowered the overall cost of panels by 40 percent this year, Solyndra was unable to compete. The egalitarian balance is one that will afford large-scale, global installation of solar energy panels at a price people can manage. Resources. [ 1 ] [link] , [link]. [ Energy Business Journal.

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Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?

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In a 2015 study for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, Bryan Clark , a naval specialist now at the Hudson Institute, noted that the ability of these boats to remain submerged for long periods of time made them “ nearly impossible to find with radar and active sonar.” For example, the Chinese Navy has invested in a fishlike.