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...solar companies are opening new, more efficient factories. The thin in thin film refers to the skinny layers of photoactive chemicals needed for the technology, as compared with the thicker films used in crystalline-silicon solar modules. Though thin-film photovoltaics are cheaper than the crystalline ones on most rooftop solar panels, the technology has proved maddeningly difficult to mass-produce, which had kept it from going mainstream. But today thin film is the hottest part of the fastest-growing new energy source in the world. BCC Research, which charts technology markets, expects the global solar market to grow from...
...woman striding past what appears to be an alpine background is seen not just from the front but also from high overhead, where the camera reveals that she's actually walking on an urban rooftop with an alpine backdrop in place of the real thing. A miniskirted woman lying on a tile floor is photographed in color from the waist down--a perspective that suggests she's holding the camera. A black-and-white image of the same torso shot from around a corner strips away the playfulness and eroticism and suggests nothing so much as a crime scene...
...scientists were quite adamant about wanting to have a rooftop bar,” Gordon said, speaking above the merriment. “So in all of our environmental plans, you’ll see a ‘function room,’ but if you know the code that’s actually...
...Show me a hero," F. Scott Fitzgerald dared us, "and I will write you a tragedy." For Navy seal Michael Monsoor, heroism and tragedy arrived together, when the grenade thrown onto the Ramadi rooftop he patrolled bounced off his chest; he could escape--and let it kill his two comrades--or throw himself on top of it and trade his life for theirs...
...this friend is serious about siesta. The rooms are fancy but cozy, decorated in crisp whites (the curtains, the sheets) and deep browns (the leather chairs, the wood floors). The suite has a private balcony with sun loungers. And the rooftop terrace drips with bougainvillea, bringing some Balearic charm to the coolest hot spot in Barcelona. www.hotelpulitzer.es