And in many ways, he was the leading light of a generation of American diplomats who came of age in Vietnam.
Researchers are working on a new generation of white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that would be much more efficient than existing light bulbs.
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In 2009, EPRI launched a demonstration project seeking to accelerate the development of a new generation of LED outdoor light bulbs that provide more light with less electricity.
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The generation gap may also shed light on how Fight the Big Bull has made some of today's most exuberant and relevant improvised music.
For its part, the North American Reliability Corporation (NERC), who oversees power market reliability, issued a December report highlighting that gas and power markets need to be more synchronized to effectively enable reliability in light of higher dependence on natural gas generation.
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Another important factor in the latest round of thin vs. thick (lots more storage and processing capability) clients is that the current generation of mobile devices offer light weight attractive packaging, fast access to content (no wait for boot and application changes) and reasonable battery life (although this is an area of much needed development).
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This generation is the flame, the light which will keep this country burning bright in the darkness of an uncertain world.
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Technologies on display ranged from solar powered water purification units to military vehicles using next generation materials and energy sources to light weight batteries that can give better range and endurance.
Forget the clunky, weighty peasant mugs of yore (for savages) and clear some space for a new generation of erudite, lean and feather light beerware.
The light trucks coming to market like the next-generation Chevrolet Silverado pickup and Ford Transit cargo van feature loads of fuel-saving technologies, proving you can have the space and capability you need and still get decent gas mileage.
Corning is also pushing new glass products such as Willow Glass, a super-thin, flexible glass, and Lotus Glass, for use in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and next-generation LCD displays.
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Astronomers think there are thousands of fledgling stars in 30 Doradus, a significant fraction of the original generation of stars, packed into a 600-light-year-wide nebula.
In the current drive to create more homes, Riba president Angela Brady warns against builders producing "another generation of poor quality homes without adequate space and natural light".
Yes, a few journalists, including me, have shed some light on how they managed to build and pass along such Brobdingnagian wealth from one generation to the next and the next. (Currently, 10 members of the Pritzker clan, including Penny, are individually rich enough to be on the Forbes 400 list.) But the family has remained largely mute on the subject.
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The advance provides evidence to support a controversial idea, called multiple-exciton generation (MEG), which theorizes that it is possible for an electron that has absorbed light energy, called an exciton, to transfer that energy to more than one electron, resulting in more electricity from the same amount of absorbed light.
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"Also, light levels are currently increasing year on year and so it would be reasonable that the unit cost of PV generation will decrease in the future, " he said.
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