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To: mred5x5 who wrote (7748)	6/30/2004 9:47:35 PM
From: alfranco	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8393

Unisolar sightings While we await the results of the ECD/Cobasys/Matsushita/Toyota powwow... The missile defense agency announced multiple awards including some related to the High Altitude Airship. dodsbir.net -Systems & Processes Engineering Corp for MEMS rechargeable fuel cells and the abstract states: "More than one modular 10KW fuel cell is envisioned for the HAA." 10KW is the usual figure but if more are envisioned then more PV would also be required IMO. -Cornerstone Research Group "proposes to develop a protective coating that will encapsulate the PV cells and protect them from atomic oxygen, ozone, and UV radiation degradation, while maintaining the efficiency of the PV cell.... Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems-Akron and Uni-Solar support CRG's innovative approach to addressing the needs of the HAA." -three SBIR phase I awards to develop CIGS PV for the HAA to: Heliovolt, Int'l Solar Electric & Triton. BTW, it is around July that the decision to actually let Lockheed build (or not) the HAA prototype is due to be announced. -Separately, there was an award to Nanosonic for "Low cost radiation hardened electronics" and the abstract states: "The DoD's most promising solution for radiation hardened, miniaturized, high density memory lies in solid state devices such as BAE's Chalcogenide based RAM (phase change materials) and MRAM rather than electronic storage." On to the second sighting. Rockford Illinois' airport is to have a solar/wind/fuel cell installation as part of Illinois' Hydrogen Highway project and apparently Unisolar is under consideration. rockrivertimes.com Since the story mentions San Francisco, I wonder if some remember Unisolar's 20KW system at San Francisco Int'l Airport. I understand it is working well despite the fog and its' orientation towards Auburn Hills<g>... yes, it faces East. 3rd sighting is speculative. Frito Lay is building a new 43,000 square foot distribution center near Rochester, NY. "The new building will be environmentally friendly, company officials said, with energy-efficient light and solar panels on the roof. It will serve as a precedent for future Frito-Lay distribution centers." Keeping in mind SIT's Frito Lay installs, Richard Schoen's presentation to Pepsico managers earlier this year and in NYC around April and Satcon's application and clearance for inverters in NY, I have my hopes that this will be us via Solar Integrated or one of their partners. wokr13.com Al