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Top 10 solar power advances to watch

don't forget the floating solar panels that smart planet just featured
... they not only create energy and save land, they also stop
evaporation and improve water quality..

BAM!

that's a lot ... more at smartplanet.com or spgsolar.com

Pokeberry dye fades fast in sunlight, and was seldom used as fabric dye or ink for this reason. How will this obstacle be handled?
Poke root was used in WWII Britain to treat cancer, and it apparently does have some effect on cell growth and division, and a wine made from the berries is a folk treatment for arthritis. If this Southern weed turns out to be a viable cash crop to replace tobacco, it would be a blessing for small farmers.

Please note ExQor Technologies (Boston MA) has multiple issued patents on bio-engineered Clathrin, and more pending, that protect us for this and other applications of Clathrin protein, including Clathrin bio-nanolasers. E.g., in one issued patent 7,393,924 Vitaliano, et al. July 1, 2008, here are some of the claims directly relevant to the work at Stanford:

6. An isolated bio-nanoparticle element according to claim 1, comprising one or more types of coatings on part or the entirety of cage and or one or all or a subset of cargo elements.

16. An isolated bio-nanoparticle element according to claim 1, wherein cage produces ordered scaffolding, creating self-assembling multi-layer structures having one or more dimensions.

This also appears in our issued patent's text: "In one embodiment, one or more...elements are batteries or components for storing electronic charge.

Regards

Franco Vitaliano
President & CEO
ExQor Technologies, Inc.
Boston MA
francov@exqor.com
www.exqor.com

almost transparent solar cells that can function as windows is another advance in solar technology worth taking note of.