Google and renewable sources of energy

Posted by admin | Technology and Gadgets | Friday 25 September 2009 9:48 am


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H Google announce that it draws it manufactures new &amp? #8220? prasini&amp? #8221? technology which will be used in order to it decreases the cost of manufacture of installation of solar energy. The particular technology concerns mirror, that focuses solar beams in a surface that is heated and creates steam, which moves a turbine.

Bill Weihl, person in charge of research, reports that this moment they seek asynithista materially in order to they use in the surface katoptron.

Before two years Google had announced that in the next years it will invest in companies while it makes also her own researches for the production of cheaper renewable energy. Of course the particular technology katoptron is expected to decrease the cost of installation at 25% or even more.

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One million free of charge e-books in format EPUB from the service Google Books

Posted by admin | Technology and Gadgets | Friday 25 September 2009 9:33 am


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Google announced that via the service Google Books, those who they want they can read (or even lower) up to one million dorean publications of electronic books (public domain books) in format EPUB (and PDF also).

As he is reported in the official statement of company, continuously more users turn themselves to the electronic appliances of reading (e-book readers) and in the electronic publications of books (e-books). Do other use their mobile telephone, their netbook or e-ink readers with smaller screens that however can’t &amp? quot? apeikonisoyn&amp? quot? rightly the pictures in PDF of books that it has &amp? quot? skanarei&amp? quot? Google. Precisely in this point enter the does EPUB of format Google (which is free of charge also &amp? quot? anoichto&amp? quot).

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the EPUB text-based light format for electronic books that does allow in the text to be adapted (to make &amp? quot? reflow&amp? quot) even in the smallest screens so that he is readable. Because as we said the EPUB, he is free of charge also open model, it is already compatible with big number of appliances - which is increased continuously - and thus, the readers of are not prisoner appliance or one concrete format in order to they read their electronic books.

Google in any case will continue allocating the books that skanarei in pictures in popular model PDF, in order that the users can read their electronic books in pages (each page a picture) as precisely are in their printed authentic copies. In order to you begin the reading, as says Google, you have than to episkeyteite the address. Also from the books that you can lower free of charge it is.