The solar arrays would no longer be correctly pointed at the sun, and the storage batteries would run down.
Options run the gamut from sun dried tomatoes and roasted garlic to spinach to kalamata olive to mushroom and onion.
Khosla Ventures run by uber venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, the Founders Fund from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Innovation Endeavors from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt contributed to the round.
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We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.
The devices will run on Sun's Java-based operating system and will boost demand for the company's big servers, which already power some of the most popular websites.
Yet Intel and Sun face a potential threat from the upstart Transmeta, whose chips run only 75% as fast but suck only 20% of the power.
Then there is one of the oldest ways of getting power out from the sun: solar "thermal" installations, which absorb the sun's energy, transforming it into heat so it can boil water and run a turbine.
Now the company is seeking to get back on track and commercialize a power generator with the potential to run either on the sun or biogas.
The four systems run on Solaris 8 OS and extend the server line whose genesis in September was the Sun Fire 280R.
The importance of the Web browser is that, combined with Java, a software language which can run on any platform and which was developed by another of Microsoft's rivals, Sun Microsystems, it may become a rival to the Windows operating system.
All over Africa every day children walk or run for miles to reach decrepit buildings, which often do little more than keep off the sun and rain.
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