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BigV · 12-18-2012, 11:32 AM

Another advance:

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articl...d-solar-savant

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678871/a...ost-efficiency

There are two interesting ideas here, one having to do with solar power and one having to do with money.

Money first. Peter Thiel, creator of PayPal and an early FaceBook investor has beaucoup money, of course, and he has a plan to let young people with great ideas unleash their creativity free from the bounds of a class schedule and a work schedule. He offers 20 kids under 20 years old $100,000 to fund their businesses. The catch? They have to drop out of college so they can focus on their business ideas. Very bold!

The second item is the idea/product of one of these Thiel Fellows, Eva Full. She's developed a way to retrofit existing solar panels to track the sun. This isn't a new idea, but her's is a passive system, requiring no motors or extra load on the panel. She uses bi-metal brackets whose differential expansion rates can exert a force thereby changing the angle of the panel, all by the direct influence of the sun's energy.

12-18-2012, 11:32 AM	#3
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Another advance: http://www.greentechmedia.com/articl...d-solar-savant http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678871/a...ost-efficiency There are two interesting ideas here, one having to do with solar power and one having to do with money. Money first. Peter Thiel, creator of PayPal and an early FaceBook investor has beaucoup money, of course, and he has a plan to let young people with great ideas unleash their creativity free from the bounds of a class schedule and a work schedule. He offers 20 kids under 20 years old $100,000 to fund their businesses. The catch? They have to drop out of college so they can focus on their business ideas. Very bold! The second item is the idea/product of one of these Thiel Fellows, Eva Full. She's developed a way to retrofit existing solar panels to track the sun. This isn't a new idea, but her's is a passive system, requiring no motors or extra load on the panel. She uses bi-metal brackets whose differential expansion rates can exert a force thereby changing the angle of the panel, all by the direct influence of the sun's energy. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.