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The Best Of What's New 2007

Posted by Zonk on from the can't-believe-the-year's-almost-over dept.

BlaineZilla pointed us to one of the earliest annual 'best of' roundups: Popular Science's Best of What's New awards. The winner this year is a nanosolar powersheet that may someday change the way we think about renewable energy. Other winners include the corot satellite, a project aimed at searching out habitable planets in other solar systems, and the world's most advanced bionic hand.

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  1. Re:when ? by vertinox · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://finance.google.com/finance?cid=1666450

    I wouldn't say vaporware because NanoSolar does have a $9 million dollar contract with the DOE and has a working prototype production of said solar film that actually works. History Chanel had a small clip about their production line (not the History Channel Clip but shows the same machine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4riNlqZHCTQ ) so its out of the R&D theory stage and will have to go into mass production phase.

    Its no longer a question of "if?", but rather "when?"

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