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Solar energy is a serious consideration for any transports and logistics company looking to lower their monthly power utility bills to operate their (usually numerous and disparate) buildings.

Now, imagine that a company, somewhere, could sell you solar panels that can produce between 2 and 4 times more electricity (for the same physical coverage) than “regular” (off the shelf) solar panels.

You’d think such an awesome technology would be either out of price and / or unavailable before at least a few years but you’d be wrong, on both assumptions.

Meet the innovaors at Nanosolar, in Palo Alto, CA who have taken the “nanotechnology” path to greatly improve the solar cell “productivity-level”. The foundation for their solar panels is so well-thought that it seems their ongoing research is constantly yielding more impressive “results” that T&L companies (and other types of companies, too) will surely want to learn more about.

The way things are going, Nanosolar is on track to make electricity:

• cost-efficient for -ubiquitous- deployment (read: everywhere, anytime);
• mass-produced on a global scale (free energy for everyone);
• available in many versatile forms (creative applications, even for the T&L operators).

Nanosolar has developed proprietary technology that makes it possible to simply roll-print solar cells that require only 1/100th as thick an absorber as a silicon-wafer cell (yet deliver similar performance and durability).

There’s a CNN video explaining all of this so you may want to watch it (.wmv format).

The unique approach Nanosolar has perfected dramatically lowers the process cost and complexity involved in the production of thin-film solar cells and makes it possible to scale production very rapidly.

The performance these “nanotech-enabled” solar “films” is so impressive that it might just be possible, right now, to put solar panels on mostly any kind of building, be it residential, commercial or industrial.

We’re pretty sure, here at NavSite, that you’re hoping Nanosolar can (somehow) adapt their impressively “thin” solar panels to fit on trucks, trains, boats and even planes. Well, given the nature of the technology, in our humble opinion, there’s nothing stopping them of doing it.

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Located in La Prairie, on Montreal’s South Shore (15 minutes from downtown), Nova Containers are specialists in materials handling, blocking and bracing. They also offer extensive customs warehouse services as well as transport, logistics and storage.

Increasingly popular are the freight forwarding and customs brokering services which help customers save time and money.

The services are offered individually or as an “A to Z” package to answer all the T&L needs of their customers who usually transit, fully or in part, by the Port of Montreal.

As their name implies, they repair, store and sell empty maritime containers.

The company has started its operations back in 1982 and the current President is Ms Diane Sirois. Her reputation for providing complete satisfaction and peace of mind to her customers is already very well known by companies using Nova Containers’ services, when going through Montreal.

For more information, you can visit the web site.

Tags: nova containers, freight, logistics, maritime containers, storage, montreal, quebec, canada

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