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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 United States spends almost $500 billion annually purchasing energy from other countries. Unfortunately, for Evergreen and Solyndra, that filing is too late. Resources. [ 4 ] [link].

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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.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The Asian electronics industry takes off In 1995, Tan resigned from Sanyo and purchased Trek, a small, family-run electronics component trading firm in his old neighborhood of Geylang, for just shy of US $1 million. In addition to claims by M-Systems and IBM, perhaps the most complicated rivalry came from the Chinese company Netac Technology.

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