Lightweight solar: The white plastic of Solon's new solar module is key to a design that speeds installations.
But aviation experts say that if the Persian Gulf crisis drives the price of fuel much higher, there will be a strong incentive to speed installation of drag-reduction equipment on new airliners.
The wind industry is also curtailing "shoddy" practices such as leaving fences open around high-voltage equipment and driving trucks at high speeds through installation sites, said Fraser McLachlan, chief executive of renewable energy underwriter GCube Insurance Services Inc.
Compared to traditional technologies, linear stages can provide a variety of benefits to industrial applications: Easy movement repeatability, precision in operation and position control, quick acceleration to high speeds, easy installation and immense reliability.
To speed the installation, the Lakers brought in veterans who had triangle experience, like Ron Harper.
Strategic Energy, which counts a number of housing associations as its clients, has come up with a scheme that reduces landlord's legal costs and speeds up installations.
On Thursday, President Obama directed the Homeland Security Department to speed the installation of body scanners at American airports and to work with international airports to see that they upgrade their own equipment.
So here's another theory: that clean energy technologies, principally solar, wind, energy efficiency and distributed storage are rapidly out-competing nuclear energy on cost, speed of installation and community acceptance.
We have never said our bridges are the cheapest, but they do represent, we believe, the best value for money in terms of design, supply, delivery and speed of installation".
Congress is pressing the F.A.A. to speed the installation at airports of machines to screen checked luggage for explosives, and since Sept. 11, airlines have been using a computer database to flag more passengers and their baggage for close screening.
