Investors will also converge on the compelling opportunities in core economic sectors such as banking, mobile telecoms, internet, electricity, building materials, and food processing.
Residents pay rent, most houses have kitchens and electricity, and building materials range from flimsy corrugated-iron shacks to permanent, multistorey concrete structures.
That said, different combinations of materials have different electricity-producing potential for the same weight and volume.
As the radioisotope decays, it produces heat energy that is converted by thermoelectric materials into the electricity that powers the space probe.
The aid - including school supplies, building materials and two large electricity generators - is now stuck at the Israel-Gaza border, our correspondent in Gaza says.
Commerce does this by endeavoring to consider all of the factors of production necessary to make the product (the various materials, labor, electricity, water, and other overhead) and valuing those inputs by reference to their prices in another country.
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Thin film technology refers to the use of non-silicon materials to convert sunlight into electricity.
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His system has a design that makes it easier to get the air through it, uses cheaper materials and does not draw electricity from the grid, which adds to costs and reduces the net amount of carbon stored (since grid electricity comes with carbon emissions attached, from the fuel used to make it).
The elementary school was built of makeshift materials and had no running water or electricity.
Superconductors are materials that, when cooled sufficiently, conduct electricity without resistance.
The inclusion of food production also points to a broadening of the definition of green tech, which in the past referred more narrowly to technologies such as those for renewable electricity and biofuel production, electric car development and new materials and services that help consumers and businesses use energy more efficiently.
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There will without doubt be improvements in the efficiency of the economy - more output from less electricity through better machines or ways of doing things or better materials.
However it has been limited by subsidy reforms which have increased the cost of fuel and electricity, as well as by shortages of increasingly-expensive raw materials.
All sources of energy and electricity require water in their production processes: the extraction of raw materials, cooling in thermal processes, in cleaning processes, cultivation of crops for biofuels, and powering turbines to generate hydroelectricity.
Dr. Mershin says that by using agricultural waste and inexpensive materials, like grass clippings, to create solar panels, electricity could become affordable and more available to rural places and developing countries.
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Small and medium-sized businesses face high raw-materials prices and rising labour costs, but miss out on the low electricity prices and tax advantages enjoyed by big firms.
Suntech is a producer of photovoltaic cells that integrate directly with building materials, so that customers can generate significant amounts of solar power to produce electricity for homes, businesses and even bigger locations like stadiums.
These flexible, lightweight materials can be used as tents and similar structures that provide shelter and convert sunlight into electricity.
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Over the past three years, thermoelectric materials have attracted intense interest from energy researchers trying to turn exhaust heat from automobiles into electricity that can be used by the vehicle.
From its urethane foam in the track, polymer fibres in the super-fast hockey pitches, materials in walls, floors and roofs of stadia and insulation technology in the broadcast and electricity wiring cables to technology in the signage in the controversial Games Lanes, the company's hands are all over London 2012.
Thermoelectric materials convert low-grade heat wasted in industrial processes or exhaust systems of a vehicle into electricity.
Nevada's first platinum-certified LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) buildings stand proudly here, constructed of recycled materials and rammed-earth walls, with passive cooling, renewable heating, reclaimed water and solar-electricity panels, all harvesting clean energy.
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