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Bright Lights, Big Shiny
IBM announces new process to reuse, recycle silicon wafers for solar panels |
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31 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 5:45 AM on 31 Oct 2007 Tech giant IBM announced it has developed a simple new process to recycle the silicon wafers it uses in many of its products. The process extends the silicon wafers' useful life, and when that life is finally over, the wafers can then be sold to make solar panels. IBM calculates that if all of the 3 million wafers discarded each year worldwide by the tech industr ... |
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| Topics: business, news, recycling, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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Wireless Is More
Green communications technology heading to developing countries |
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31 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Wireless Is More Green communications technology heading to developing countries Solar-powered internet and recycled cell phones are coming to a developing country near you. Internet access is widely heralded as a tool with the potential to transform the lives of low-income people, but construction of a wired network to remote villages is often prohibitively expensive. Enter the Green Wi-Fi p ... |
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| Topics: business, globalization, news, recycling, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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