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I just love these bamboo homes. These folks say a house can be built from the wood (bamboo) that grows on a piece of land about the same size as the finished home, instead of 3 1/2 acres of land. That’s pretty awesome. What better way to build a beautiful house without depleting our woods. [...]

Although silicon is actually the industry common semiconductor in the majority of electrical products, including the photovoltaic cells that sun panels use to convert sunlight into energy, it is not really the most effective component readily available. For example, the semiconductor gallium arsenide and related compound semiconductors offer nearly two times the performance as silicon [...]