Harnessing sunlight on the cheap

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MIT students work on a new kind of solar generator that employs low-cost materials. Here they mount the frame of the concentrator (which will be mounted with mirrors) on the base near Tang Hall on Memorial Drive. Photo Donna Coveney
MIT students work on a new kind of solar generator that employs low-cost materials. Here they mount the frame of the concentrator (which will be mounted with mirrors) on the base near Tang Hall on Memorial Drive. Photo / Donna Coveney

For a project that could be on the very cutting edge of renewable energy, this one is actually decidedly low tech--and that's the point.


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2 teens attacked in town mocked in YouTube videos

Jul 05, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
(AP) -- Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by an angry group of young residents, authorities said.

Making sure the internet delivers

Jul 04, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
European researchers have developed affordable test suites that businesses can use to check whether their software will work with the next-generation internet.

Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses

Jul 03, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
(AP) -- This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.

Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs

Jul 03, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
(AP) -- Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which ...

Fujitsu Develops New Technology that Ensures Authenticity of Digital Video Clips

Jul 03, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
Fujitsu Laboratories announced today the development of the world's first technology that makes it possible to ensure that digital video data recorded over long time periods and then stored and managed in ...
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