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Their solar-powered light had become a serious endeavor that needed to go beyond the classroom.
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Simple--and aesthetically pleasing--ideas include transforming Mason jars into solar-powered light jars, converting pallets into lawn furniture and reusing detergent containers as rain catchers.
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Rather than creating a new type of solar-powered light, which seems to be where most alternative energy people spend their time, Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves, London based designers spent the last four years developing GravityLight as an off-line project.
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Philips, for instance, is planning to launch a small solar-powered LED reading light for Africa, where an estimated 500m people live without electricity.
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Take the case of Deng Xunming, a China-born U.S. citizen who is a pioneer of America's solar industry and whose innovations light up the first solar-powered billboard on New York's Times Square.
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Light Energy that produces and sells solar-powered LED lanterns to replace kerosene lights in the emerging market villages.
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Light, a company that makes portable, rechargeable, solar-powered lights.
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People linger delightedly at the Hotel Habitat by Enric Ruiz-Geli with Cloud 9 Acconci Studio and Ruy Ohtake, a miniature simulacrum of a proposed four-star hotel for Barcelona covered with a web of 5, 000 winking light-emitting diodes, or LEDS, powered by solar cells for a nighttime display of glowing colors.
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Considered the world's most advanced sun-powered plane, the Solar Impulse took off from Moffett Field in Mountain View at first light for a two-hour practice run in advance of a planned multi-city, cross-country tour.
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