Hybrid Solar Power and Another Cancer Breakthrough?

Today’s articles discuss how 3-D printing technology will save the average family money and new type of “solar film” being developed.

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-Solar film turns smartphone and car into sun-powered devices.

Researchers at the University of California have developed a solar film that can be used on devices such as smartphones screens that can harvest energy the sun. “We anticipate this device will offer new directions for solar cells, including the creation of solar windows on homes and office buildings,” said head researcher Yang Yang. This type of technology is still in the development phase and there is no word when this product will enter the consumer market.

-At home 3-D printing could save the consumer tons of money.

 This is an interesting story about how 3-D printers could save the average person money. Researchers at the Michigan Technological University conducted the study that found that 3-D printer could bring additional benefits. These 3-D printers would bring benefits that would help the environment. More importantly, these products made by a 3-D printer are cheaper than if you had to buy them from a company. In the future, your local store might have a 3-D printer and could create products that you need. It is cheaper than going to a store and buying a retail model.

-Solar Power that works even when it’s not sunny.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy  is devoting thirty million to several demonstrations projects that will attempt to combine photovoltaics with solar thermal. This idea is that solar power could run all the time even if it is cloudy or raining that day or even during the night time. This could lead to a wide variety of innovations in our future.

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-A cure for cancer – in the intestines?
As most people know, chemotherapy is a method of getting rid of cancerous cells. The side affect to chemotherapy is that it also targets good cells and can even kill a human if the person is exposed to too much chemotherapy overtime. Researchers might have found a way to disrupt the systems that chemotherapy brings (nausea, vomiting, etc) by regenerating intestine cells through stem cell technology. The research team has already tested this idea on mice and their theory of regenerating cells in the stomach. It worked and they are now in the process of offering this as a clinical trial in the near future.

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