table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7 style=vertical-align:top;trtd width=80 align=center valign=topfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif/font/tdtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbr /div style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1 //divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tamp;fd=Ramp;usg=AFQjCNHvhhRUZZzp7QTd1Hm4NS-w6f8cUgamp;url=http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/biologically-inspired-design-how-sunflowers-could-reshape-solar-power/12016bBiologically inspired design: How sunflowers could reshape bsolar power/b/b/abr /font size=-1bfont color=#6f6f6fSmartPlanet.com (blog)/font/b/fontbr /font size=-1By Kirsten Korosec | January 11, 2012, 2:04 PM PST The key to building an efficient concentrated bsolar power/b plant that uses less land may just lie within the face of a sunflower. Researchers at Massachusets Institute of Technology in collaboration b/b/fontbr /font size=-1 class=p/fontbr /font class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dlb0Y0PywYSAQfMamp;ned=usnobrband morenbsp;raquo;/b/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table
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table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7 style=vertical-align:top;trtd width=80 align=center valign=topfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif/font/tdtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbr /div style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1 //divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tamp;fd=Ramp;usg=AFQjCNHFjDo8UyW3zHVRJiM7_ADZcZTIgwamp;url=http://westfaironline.com/2012/18716-academic-abstracts/bAcademic abstracts/b/abr /font size=-1bfont color=#6f6f6fWestfair Online/font/b/fontbr /font size=-1Matthew Breland is developing bsolar/b cells that can provide sufficient bpower/b for broadband communications on spacecraft. Manuel Curillo is developing new engineering curricula and facilities to support NASA-sponsored engineering competitions at the b/b/fontbr /font size=-1 class=p/fontbr /font class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dnFcgDrHCASsMMMamp;ned=usnobrb/b/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table
