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  • October 26th, 2006 at 4: 42 am sunpower is public spwr … … invest wisely! ian thompson Says:

    SUNPOWER: New super-efficient solar panels | Inhabitat 2006

  • Afterward the United Nations controlled not just water, but communications via comsats, electric power from sunpower satellites, and every resource that could be labeled "lim ited."

    Destiny's Road Niven, Larry 1997

  • He began plucking Vala-cloth twists from between pairs of knobs, snatching them free in a jolt and sparkle of sunpower.

    The Ringworld Throne Niven, Larry 1996

  • Elsewhere beyond the small city, Kossara could from this height see cultivated lands along the shores: green trees, hedges, grass, and yellowing grain of Terran stock; blue or purple where native foliage and pasture remained; homes, barns, sheds, sunpower towers, widely spaced; a glimpse of the Lyubisha River rolling from the north as if to bring greeting from her father's manse.

    A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

  • It must be, both because Earth's ecology was in bad need of help, and because life is the sunpower converter.

    There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

  • Another big slice is power for the moving roadways-that's sunpower again.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • It drew its power from six square yards of sunpower screens on its low curved roof.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • The Douglas Martin sunpower screens met the immediate crisis when oil became too scarce to be wasted as fuel, but sunpower was limited to about one horsepower per square yard and was at the mercy of the weather.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • I have tried halides and I am now running an ATI sunpower over my 6x2x2 sps/lp ...

    Practical Fishkeeping 2010

  • Solera sunpower has focused on PV modules for the German market since 2004.

    New Statesman New Statesman 2010

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