Manufacturing follows a very basic economic principle. The easier a product is to make, the faster it can be assembled, which means that the production line is able to churn out more units and exploit the resulting operational gains to cut overhead. With luck, the savings are passed onto the consumer. But the axiom is…
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Google has been granted government funding to pursue its airborne wind turbines
Like other web giants, Google constantly experiments with new technologies to hedge its chances of stumbling across the next big thing. But one ambitious pet project has apparently turned into something much more, attracting the attention of the U.S. Department of Energy’s DARPA-inspired internal research arm. That’s the highlight of the latest of the search giant’s…
LG’s next-gen solar cell is incredibly efficient
While it may be best known for making consumer electronics and household appliances, LG also boasts a formidable legacy in industrial manufacturing dating back almost to its creation in the middle of last century. That experience has been distilled into the development of a new breed of solar cell that ups the ante on harvesting…