But there's also a natural way to get your hands on it--dig it out of the ground in Wyoming. (The natural origin may or may not endear this chemical to the greenies.) The primary use of soda ash is to make glass.
Glaze a building and make the glass transparent in the wintertime, opaque in the summer.
The three firms hope to fund a community of developers to make Google Glass the next major computing platform.
But what if the real green answer is that certain industries have to contract - make less glass, produce fewer ventilation units and suchlike.
On the other hand, this is why the Apple Watch and the Google Glass make sense.
Smart keyboard apps like SwiftKey 3, Snapkeys Si and others make typing on glass less painful and more intuitive.
That we could make the quality of glass fiber necessary to transmit long-distance signals.
Indeed, Riedel does put some love into every wine glass they make.
For example, I use a task management system on my computer - can I write an app to make this easier on Glass?
It's too early to tell, said Maris, but I couldn't help asking the obvious question: how will third parties make money off of Glass?
Floor-to-ceiling glass windows make the small space feel larger.
Suntech Power is currently pursuing thin film technology, a low cost PV technology that involves depositing several thin layers of silicon or more complex materials on a substrate such as glass to make a PV cell.
This time it is the impossibly thin, flat glass used to make liquid crystal displays.
CdTe, like the First Solar technology, is vapour deposited onto the glass panels to make the actual cells.
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They are the best execution so far of how Apple could make use of its curved glass display patents.
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The sun still came through the same glass walls to make the same patterns on the then-ultrafashionable white linoleum floors.
My smoky breath turns to liquid as it hits the window and, if I rub the mist into heavy droplets, I can make it trickle down the glass.
And if you watch the How It Feels video, it becomes clear that the first person POV HD video that will be generated by Glass wearers will make for very compelling YouTube content.
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Google has said one goal of its Glass project is to make technology available when users need it but unobtrusive when they don't.
And earlier this month, scientists at Stanford University announced they had discovered a way to make a brain as clear as glass, allowing them to trace neural networks wherever they may lead.
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The costume galleries have long suffered from cramped quarters and often lifeless installations behind glass panes, which make the garments look more like clothes in a shop window than works of art.
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China's headlong growth has not only caused acute shortages of metals like copper and nickel (which is used, among other things, to make stainless steel and even types of glass).
The construction is as you'd expect, with Gorilla Glass and Kevlar fused to make the "business ready" handset, while the Atrix 2's Lapdock 100 is listed as an accessory.
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The detective who is leading what is now one of the biggest murder hunts ever undertaken by Cleveland Police, returned to the place Ms Glass was last seen to make his personal appeal.
The goal is to make people forget they're typing on glass and help them type faster--a major complaint on the first Storm.
The simple paneling behind, frameless glass enclosure and backlit LED lighting make a statement without all the pretense and formality of a traditional cellar.
With Danny Huston as the devious Colonel Stryker, who, claiming he can make Wolverine indestructible, dips him in a glass laboratory bathtub and injects a substance called adamantium into his veins.
Mimi Hoang, a principal of nArchitects, the design end of the three-prong winning team, said that high ceilings will add a feeling of spaciousness and sliding glass doors to Juliette balconies will make renters feel a connection to the city.
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