Archive for June 5th, 2012
Boeing, Rolls-Royce and Other Majors Explore Remanufacturing
June 5th, 2012 | 
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Six multinational industrial leaders, including Boeing and Rolls-Royce, are collaborating in Asia to investigate remanufacturing, the process of transforming recovered industrial components into like-new ones to be reintroduced into the supply chain for usage.
In Singapore, they have tapped the Advanced Remanufacturing & Technology Centre (ARTC) to research and develop production-ready technologies for remanufacturing that can be quickly implemented by industry. Read the rest of this entry »
Thin-Film Photovoltaics Market Aims to Convert on Huge Potential
Credit: USL Photovoltaics Pvt Ltd.
Ultimately, the world will run out of fossil fuels. Meanwhile, as the world fights over fossil fuels, our planet hangs in space a mere 93 million miles from a giant fusion reactor that’s 1.4 million kilometers wide. The sun gives us about 1.37 kilowatts per square meter of energy. If it were somehow possible to convert 100 percent of the sun’s energy into usable power, we would need only one hour of it to power the Earth for an entire year. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: photovoltaics, solar energy, solar power, thin film photovoltaics | 
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