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Abundant, bright sunshine was once the critical component for commercial viability of the solar energy puzzle – until now.

Researchers at the National Physical Laboratory have announced they've created solar panels which are actually more efficient when the sun is less intense.

According to the NPL scientists, this latest solar energy production technology works better on cloudy days than it does in full sunshine. In fact, these new solar panels are up to 3% more effective on cloudy days they are on sunny days.

Dr. Fernando Araujo de Castro, a principal research scientist at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, leads research on solar photovoltaic and organic electronics, and his work focuses on materials and product development. ...

Via 3DM-Shop, Kalani Kirk Hausman, Jacques Urbanska

After the blog post about the policies for Open Design, with this blog post I continue the series of posts about the role of policies in enabling Open Design, Digital Fabrication and FabLabs. This time is about the policies for Digital Fabrication.

And manufacturing left the country

Most of the policies regarding digital fabrication addresses (and try to revert) the phenomena of manufacturing industries leaving countries like USA or UK and moving to China. Let’s then start our research with an overview of the phenomena. ...

Via Aurelie Ghalim, Jacques Urbanska