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Poor parts of the world can be supplied with affordable solar power by 2020 through a combination of cheap technology and services provided by cell phone companies, argues Carl Pope, chairman of the US grassroots organisation Sierra Club.
Uganda’s first electric car
The Centre for Research in Transportation Technologies (Vehicle Design Project), College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology has successfully conducted the first test drive of its flagship concept, the 2-seater Electric vehicle.
The paper examines the role industrial development plays in encouraging non-oil export in Nigeria by seeking to identify the inert problem militating against Nigeria’s industrial growth. Though non-oil export had a significant effect on industrial growth, the sector was not significant enough to drive an upward growth in the Nigerian domestic economy. The paper therefore [...]
TORONTO, ON – Researchers from the University of Toronto (U of T), the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) and Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) have created the most efficient solar cell ever made based on collodial-quatum-dots (CQD).
The discovery is reported in the latest issue of Nature Materials.
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Troy, N.Y., USA — The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was recently awarded a World Bank Group contract to perform laboratory testing of LED-based, off-grid lighting products for Lighting Africa, a joint IFC and World Bank program. Lighting Africa seeks to accelerate the development of commercial off-grid lighting markets in Sub-Saharan [...]
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