Merrill's analyst also cited Sun's late entry into the data-storage field as a reason to avoid this stock.

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While that logic may serve investors well in biofuels, it misses the mark in the field of energy storage (with the possible exception of car batteries).

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Nearly three decades later in 2007, while visiting as a professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Yazami and Robert Grubbs, also a chemistry professor at the Caltech and the recipient of the 2005 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, were rumored to have made a major breakthrough in carbon-fluoride technology that would revolutionize the field of energy storage.

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The company has emerged as a leader in the emerging field of cloud, or Web-based storage.

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Even though the TLC cells have an erase-write rating of only 5, 000 cycles the company says the system provides an acceptable life using wear-leveling, write reduction and overprovisioning. (although we would like to see some field data on this) and provide a total storage capacity of up to 2 TB.

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Boxes of mass trauma supplies, field dressings, medical sponges are being boxed up for storage, unneeded.

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