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...Sirleaf should know that there are millions of males on the planet who are raising their families and carrying a burden. Our message should not be that one sex is more sensitive than the other. We must lead by example, not meaningless rhetoric. Erol Palantekin Dublin, Ohio, U.S. The Solar Solution Your story on the French nuclear-energy industry said that because of the recent spike in oil prices and environmental concerns about fossil-fuel emissions, nuclear power is looking attractive again [Nov. 14]. But the sun is also a proven source of energy, and the technology for tapping into...
...also seems like a Trojan horse for the eventual piling on of top-down government controls on commerce. The virtues touted by CSR, in his opinion, come just as easily if markets are left to run freely. Rodgers points to the initial public offering last month of Cypress's solar-power subsidiary, SunPower, and asserts that investors chipped in not to make an environmental statement but because they believe clean solar power is a potentially profitable enterprise. He is running a business, he notes, whose motivation is profit alone. In his mind, the long-term pursuit of profit necessitates socially...
InnovaLight Inc. wants to help. The company's process for reducing silicon to nanosize, light-sensitive crystal dots could revolutionize solar energy and lighting. The start-up, which just moved to Santa Clara from St. Paul, Minn., claims it will be the first to market with a silicon nanoparticle solvent--silicon "ink"--that would mean lower-cost printing of silicon nanoparticles on polymer sheets. That, in turn, would mean lower-cost solar energy because nanosize silicon is a more efficient converter of solar energy to electricity than previously used materials. It could also mean a nanoparticle light "bulb" that would...
...lighting technology on a silicon platform could "drive volume economics and mass market," says Mario Paniccia, director of Intel Corp.'s photonics technology lab. Researchers in business and academia are scrambling to create such flexible solar cells because existing solid silicon solar panels are heavy and unwieldy. Flexible, or conformal, solar cells could wrap around surfaces and pack easily for transport. A solar-cell liquid could even be painted...
...reminded us again that fossil fuels are finite and that poverty and terrorism seem to be inexhaustible. The World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers this year include entrepreneurs who are working to alleviate pain at the pump as well as human suffering. They produce energy-sparing new approaches to solar power, nanolighting and even a handheld haz-mat detector. Others are doing amazing work in creating synthesized disease killers, minting silver bullets for pathogens or using stem cells to cure heart disease. On the security front, there are new analyzers, sensors and antivirus hardware that could make our cities and computer...