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Australia is generating so much solar power that it’s now giving it out for free. As The Guardian reports, residents in three of the country’s states — New South Wales, south-east Queensland, and ...

It is 70 years since AT&T’s Bell Labs unveiled a new technology for turning sunlight into power. The phone company hoped it could replace the batteries that run equipment in out-of-the-way places. It ...

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