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    California Approves Orbiting Solar Panel Deal, Aims for 2016 Launch

    Dubai's Vertical Village Might Suck Up All Of the Sun's Rays

    GreenSun Solar Panels Come in Crayola-like Array

    Future E-Ink Ads Powered By Solar, Still Annoying

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    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    12/04/09

    In reply to California Approves Orbiting Solar Panel Deal, Aims for 2016 Launch
    And people wonder why California is bankrupt.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    12/04/09

    In reply to California Approves Orbiting Solar Panel Deal, Aims for 2016 Launch
    I'm meeting with PG&E later this month and I can't wait to rattle their cage about this.
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    Image of Panzer23 Panzer23
    12/04/09

    In reply to California Approves Orbiting Solar Panel Deal, Aims for 2016 Launch
    And now I will build and Ice Palace and a ridiculous suit to control the sunlight!!!! HAHAHAHA *menacing laugh*

    Sigh, what a horrible movie
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    Image of PotteryBarnClearanceSale PotteryBarnClearanceSale
    12/04/09

    In reply to California Approves Orbiting Solar Panel Deal, Aims for 2016 Launch
    Couldn't they build a few nuclear plants for the same amount of money?

    Space? That's really expensive right now.
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    Image of Jack of all Tirades R.O.A.C.H. Jack of all Tirades R.O.A.C.H.
    12/04/09

    @PotteryBarnClearanceSale: They say the same thing about space as they do about real estate. It's what's for breakfast! No, wait.
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    Shamoononon: I shave my legs. promoted this comment Jack of all Tirades R.O.A.C.H. was starred Jack of all Tirades R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    12/04/09

    @PotteryBarnClearanceSale: I'm still mulling over where they are going to find the extension cable long enough to reach that thing.
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    Image of ilovexspin ilovexspin
    12/04/09

    In reply to California Approves Orbiting Solar Panel Deal, Aims for 2016 Launch
    Something as well aims for a launch.

    A HUGE FUCKING METEOR LAUNCHING IN 2012 AIMED AT THE EARTH!!!!!!!!
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/04/09

    In reply to California Approves Orbiting Solar Panel Deal, Aims for 2016 Launch
    Year 2016: ''And in other news, Californians across the state are inexplicably suffering higher rates of cancer than any other state across the US."
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    Image of icelight icelight
    12/04/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Of all the possible issues with space-based power (transmission efficiencies, cost-to-orbit, receiver location) you would have to pick two that aren't actually issues?
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/04/09

    @icelight: Same reason I keep my cellphone close to my nuts.
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    Image of Yerzriknot Yerzriknot
    12/04/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Not the same kind of radiation. You CANNOT get cancer from microwave radiation.
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    12/04/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Whoa whoa whoa, close to the little round pals? Can't you hear their tiny screams of radiation-induced pain?
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/04/09

    @Yerzriknot: Aww, now you tell me. I was hoping to cheaply sterilize myself so I don't get any wild love children running around.
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    Image of Yerzriknot Yerzriknot
    12/04/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Sorry, at best you'll have mutant love children.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/04/09

    @Yerzriknot: Hmm, that might actually be worth it then, especially if one has mutant superpowers. I need to get another cell phone.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    12/04/09

    @Yerzriknot: Dad?
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    Image of Yerzriknot Yerzriknot
    12/04/09

    @Nathan Obbards: One for each nut?
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/04/09

    @Yerzriknot: Exactly.
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    Image of LVL32 LVL32
    10/08/09

    In reply to Dubai's Vertical Village Might Suck Up All Of the Sun's Rays
    you know when that oil money dries up they will be where we are. bankrupt. but we will have bombs and they will have targets. muwhahahah! I kid , I kid seriously .. sarah palin.
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    10/08/09

    @LVL32: Dubai has very, very little oil money.
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    Image of D.E.P.C. D.E.P.C.
    10/08/09

    @Sticks Calhoun: Very little oil money = lots of money relative to any other good

    All of their capital, originally, came from oil. They were smart enough to invest it. Not that all their investments were good.
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    10/08/09

    @D.E.P.C.: Yes, but my point was that the oil money has pretty much already run out for Dubai.

    GDP BREAKDOWN - The non-oil sector contributed 96.8 percent of GDP in 2006 and oil sector 3.2 percent. Among non-oil sectors the biggest contribution came from wholesale and retail trade (34.6 percent), manufacturing (15.6 percent), real estate (15.2 percent) and financial sector (9.3 percent).

    from here: [www.javno.com]
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    Image of D.E.P.C. D.E.P.C.
    10/08/09

    @Sticks Calhoun: We aren't in disagreement! I was just pointing out that their "very, very little oil money," combined with unique investments, are what lead to them being mega-rich. I was not taking the position of the person you were disagreeing with.

    I don't know what pre-man-made-islands-and-7-star-hotel Dubai's GDP was comprised of, but I'm pretty sure it was primarily oil.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/08/09

    In reply to Dubai's Vertical Village Might Suck Up All Of the Sun's Rays
    With the sunblock in place and the world aghast, Dubai will be free to wallow in its own crapulence.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/17/09

    In reply to GreenSun Solar Panels Come in Crayola-like Array
    "The stained glass industry could be due for a big boon."

    ....You know how folks get all excited when there's a turn of the millennium, or a certain comet passes by? You know one of those "this is a once-in-several-lifetimes event" kinda things?

    There need to be days to recognize sentences like this the same way.
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    Image of Torley Torley
    09/17/09

    In reply to GreenSun Solar Panels Come in Crayola-like Array
    Beautiful tones. If only more colors were effective — combine to make a spectrum. :) I'd be fond of green + pink. An entire rainbow would appear like Daft Punk/James White of SignalNoise.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    09/17/09

    In reply to GreenSun Solar Panels Come in Crayola-like Array
    I'm sure I've used them to make a toothbrush holder out of at school...
    In fact I'd love to get a few panels of these n have a tweak about with them, could make something very pretty compared to the current black one.
    Also surely if they each only absorb part of the spectrum if you lay them on top of each other they'll get most of the spectrum? Or is my colour theory off today?
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    Image of FriarNurgle FriarNurgle
    09/17/09

    In reply to GreenSun Solar Panels Come in Crayola-like Array
    Taste the rainbow... ZAP!!!
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/17/09

    @FriarNurgle: It tastes like burning.
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    Image of Conrad Conrad
    07/12/09

    In reply to Future E-Ink Ads Powered By Solar, Still Annoying
    I think the actual message is that their penis is bigger.
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    Image of VenomIreland VenomIreland
    07/12/09

    In reply to Future E-Ink Ads Powered By Solar, Still Annoying

    Nevermind, I can't embed the video either it seems :0



    EDIT: And now it does play properly, weird.
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    07/12/09

    @VenomIreland: Except for you video doesn't work and gizmodo's is fine.
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    Image of VenomIreland VenomIreland
    07/12/09

    @MF350z: WTF? I thought I deleted it!
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    Image of MF350z: Wanting, at least, a silver star! MF350z: Wanting, at least, a silver star!
    07/12/09

    @VenomIreland: Well I guess you did, but now there is just a huge blank space.
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    Image of VenomIreland VenomIreland
    07/12/09

    @MF350z: It was always like that, for some reason.
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    07/12/09

    In reply to Future E-Ink Ads Powered By Solar, Still Annoying
    Energizer is so pissed at the sun right now.
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