Transparent Solar Cells Made For Windows

Transparent Solar Cells Made For Windows

Offering a view of the garden and an adjacent field, it looks like any other window. But this window offers an additional feature: it also produces electricity. The facades of the house, too, harness solar energy to supply the occupants with electrical power. This is what the domestic power supply of the future could look like. The surface area used to produce energy would increase greatly with transparent solar cells.


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conversation with my friend

Chifundo Tenthani M.: yea
ucizibi: My friend
Chifundo Tenthani M.: wasup my friend?
ucizibi: Writing the final paper my friend. And U? Ukumwa?
Chifundo Tenthani M.: i have beer here but am not drinking now
ucizibi: OK. My friend ukufuna udziwe mmene ndikukhozera?
Chifundo Tenthani M.: tandiuze my friend
ucizibi: B+, A,B,A,B+,B+,A,A,B+,A,A kwatsala maResults awiri
Chifundo Tenthani M.: shashasha

Chifundo Tenthani M.: akupatsani nazo phd zimenezotu

ucizibi: Koma dinc ndamuphonya chifukwa cha B ayise
ucizibi: Aaaaah ndakayika
Chifundo Tenthani M.: ahhh modziyo eti?
ucizibi: Watsitsa grade ndithu ameneyo. Unless andipatse ma A+ in the remaining assignments
Chifundo Tenthani M.: ah ok amangotenga average regardless of some marks less than a certain mark?
ucizibi: B is above the threshold for awarding dinc anyway koma I doubt ngati average ingafike above A amane ali dincyo
ucizibi: Uyamba nthawi zanji kumwa?
Chifundo Tenthani M.: ah mwina sindimwa lero ndili mmudi yoipa kwabasi
ucizibi: Bwanji? Akukukaniza zijazi?
Chifundo Tenthani M.: hahaha
Chifundo Tenthani M.: nonono
Chifundo Tenthani M.: komano nthawi zina ndimatero
Chifundo Tenthani M.: i didnt even go out of this ka house
ucizibi: Aliyense amakhala ndinthawi yoteroyo. Even me
Chifundo Tenthani M.: eeetu nde ine lafika lero koma ndikaumwa mawa kuyambila mmamawa
ucizibi: Hahahaha. Ndiye kuti ukudziwa chimene chakubowa my friend.
Chifundo Tenthani M.: kenako ndikaonela game ya ma darts

The death of a friend: Dominic Mtumbuka

Late Dominic Mtumbuka (not in shirt) 2 weeks before his demise

This week has been one of the most trying of my life. My colleague Dominic Ohms Peter Mtumbuka passed away on Sunday 07-06-09. He started complaining about headache on Wednesday 27 May after coming from a visit at Water Dept in Ubungo Dar. The next day he came back and told us he had taken malaria drug Malafin... Since we were preparing for exams the following week, he kept studying and there was no sign he was so sick that he would pass away the in the coming week. Things changed on Sunday when he complained on having breathing problems whenever he attempted to walk...We had to bring him foo t his room.... In the morning of Monday he said he was feeling OK and we even went together for lunch even though he did not eat... On Tuesday his condition worsened and we had to take him to the University Hospital where he was admitted, put on drip and antibiotics. He went for x-ray on Thursday where he was diagonised with swellings in the respiratory tract... On Friday and Saturday his condition improved tremendously and everybody was shocked on Sunday morning when we were informed that he had passed away at 07:30 hrs of Sunday 07 June.

His body was taken to Muhimbili National Hospital mortuary at around 09:00 hrs. No arrangements were made on this day as there was no official at campus. All the arrangements were started on Monday with The Assistant Coordinator Mr Isack Legonda who worked tirelessly together with Henry, Petros, Sam playing a very big role. We went to the Immigration Office to clear our friend, the Malawi High Commission where Mr Biziweki gave us a letter to help us during our travel back to Malawi, the Foreign Affairs Dept. We also checked for tansport and got quotes for the coffin.

Tueday was left for Mr Legonda to finalise on the financial arrangements.

We gathered together again on Wednesday. Bought the coffin, clothes and went to the Morgue to pay our last respects to the late Domi at 14:00 hrs. Mr Biziweki also came to bid us goodbye. Mr Wilson Musinguzi, Ass Coordinator in Makerere University.

We left Dar at around 17:00hrs and only got out of town at around 19:00 hrs because of traffic jam. We travelled in a Land Cruiser in the company of Isack, Wilson and a Mr Uledi who was our driver. Slept at Morogoro and left again at 04:00hrs. Had a fat tyre in Mikumi National PArk and had a stopover at the next trading centre to have the flat tyre mended. We were on course to cross the border in time but a punctured radiator ment that we had to spend about three hours at the Mbeya junction. We reached the border an hour after it was closed. Name withheld of PIL was of alot of help as he had to arrange for special treatment. We crossed the border but the driver got tired and we had to wait for Poly people at Chitimba Roadblock.

We reached late Dominic's home at 05:00hrs where he was buried the same day at around 14:00hrs

At the time of his death the late Dominic was a second year MSc in Renewable Energy student at Makerere University and was at University of Dar es Salaam for specialisations

MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE