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

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With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh 3 ] “Research and Markets; Asia Pacific Solar Photovoltaic Market Outlook to 2015 - China and Taiwan Leading the Demand.” Resources. [ 4 ] [link].

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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Like fighter planes, military drones started cheap, then got expensive. Unlike the fighters, though, they got cheap again. But for the most part, the price is right: China’s DJI Mavic 3 , used by both Russia and Ukraine for surveillance and for delivering bombs, goes for around $2,000. That’s not cheap, except by U.S.

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Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

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Put it down partly to the rising demand for cheap antimissile defense, but it’s mainly the result of technical advances in high-energy lasers. But making such a machine in the lab is quite different from operating it in the field, not to mention in outer space, where supplying power and removing waste heat constitute major problems.

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