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
A newly published patent filing suggests that airborne power generation has come a very long way since Google took over the initiative two years ago with its acquisition of Makani Power.
LG’s next-gen solar cell is incredibly efficient
A special alloy applied to the bottom reflects stray photos that managed to dodge past the electrons in the cell on the first go back up for photoelectric conversion so to increase energy efficiency.