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Faced with the prospect of revolutionary solar-powered thin-film technology, we can think of only one thing: beer. The folks at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed micrometer-thin solar cells and heating/cooling devices that could be attached to all kinds of surfaces, including walls, cars or bottles. These would be way less cumbersome than the self-cooling beer cans I posted about a few months back. The solar powered thin films would also require no moving parts. In their press releases, the Rensselaer researchers mention self cooling soda bottles, but we know what they're thinking...

[Via SCI FI Tech and vnunet]

Filed Under: Science, Drink Recipes
Tags: beer, bottles, cooling, heating, Rensselaer, research, soda, soft drinks, solar cells, technology, thin film

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milkmandan

7-13-2006 @3:04AM milkmandan said... Yea RPI!!! We get our drink on all technological-style, yea.
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