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US solar plant costs fall another 30 per cent in just one year
Posted in Business on 21st Sep, 2017
by Alex Muller
A dramatic slide in prices even for an industry that has been greatly successful in reducing prices, and appears to come mostly from the collapse in PV module prices.
SpaceX will call global internet satellite network Starlink
Posted in Science on 21st Sep, 2017
by Alex Muller
Low-latency, gigabit network inches closer to commercialisation.
Google signs $1.1bn HTC smartphone deal
Posted in Business on 21st Sep, 2017
by Alex Muller
Alphabet's Google has struck a $1.1bn (22m) deal with Taiwan's HTC to expand its smartphone business.
LinkSpace is a Chinese startup that will try to make reusable rockets like Spacex
Posted in Hardware on 19th Sep, 2017
by Alex Muller
The Linkspace New Line 1 rocket will be a Small Launch Vehicle (SLV) designed for microsatellite and nanosatellite launches.
Light to purge defects from solar cells
Posted in Science on 17th Sep, 2017
by Alex Muller
Researchers discovered that shining a light on perovskites caused positively charged iodine atoms to disperse, and those atoms carried away defects in the process.