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MIT Students Develop Revolutionary Solar Dish

The solar industry is booming.  With waves of investment and grants, the solar power industry is for the first time becoming a serious business.  New power plants will soon be pumping power out to consumers, while other firms market to sell panels directly to the consumer, providing them with a more direct means of experiencing solar energy.

There are many forms of solar power technology.  Today the most dominant is photo-voltaics, which comprise the traditional solar panels that come to mind when one thinks of solar power.  However, there are other promising ways of capturing the sun’s energy that are merely less developed.

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BLeh if this makes them sleep at night then so be it, an Airbag isn’t gonna make much difference in these car What a joke they didnt even bother with ABS…

OK VW let not try prevent accidents cause if the citi is written off, provided the driver survives VW can have another sale… what a joke.

I drive a citi and love the MK1 shape but seriously VW is freaking crazy, not to mention they dont make them anymore since december 2010
Adding an airbag where there was none is still a safety improvement, even if it’s a minor one.
Reckon that audio system will go down well with students and the like though, quite a cool selling point. I wish they would add aircon and electric windows as standard features too.
I know they’re not a safety feature but for the price they are asking…
ABS would be easy enough to add to the package aswell. They could adapt the 9N Polo setup to fit the Citi shape.
There is a Skoda model about the same size as the Citi that they could also pool parts from.
Seeing as the new Citi dashboard is from the same Skoda model .They could’ve added a passenger side airbag while they were at it. I mean seriously… the sensors and ECU are already inplace, what’s another wiring loom and airbag? No re-design necessary as VW never designed that dash in the first place. Skoda has done all the work ages ago.
All VW does with the Citi is “Copy – Paste”
They should also think of changing the door panels. They look shit with the new dash. You can read more more about this here