Xunlight Corporation announced today that its flexible solar panels are now being used to power the first 100% solar powered billboard in New York City’s Times Square.
Xunming Deng and Liwei Xu left Nanchang, China, 25 years ago to begin graduate studies at the University of Chicago—Deng in physics and Xu, his wife, in chemistry. What they've accomplished since receiving their PhDs may be more exceptional: They've established a green-energy company in Toledo, Ohio, in the middle of America's struggling automotive manufacturing belt.
The glass is half full again in Toledo. The Ohio city once known as the glass-making capital of America is trying to forge a new identity as a solar energy, green jobs metropolis of the future.
In the shadow of the climate bill, the industrial Midwest begins to get ready.
Once the glass-making capital of the country, most of the city’s output over the years has gone into making everything from windshields to windows for cars and buildings.
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