(2, 'Future Energy: China leads world in solar power production', 'Ten years ago, Geof Moser had just graduated with a master\'s degree in solar energy from Arizona State University - but he didn\'t feel much opportunity lay at his feet in his home country.\r\n\r\nSo he headed for China.\r\n\r\n\"The solar industry was fairly small and there weren\'t a lot of jobs,\" he remembers. Its designers hoped to introduce children to coding and had modest ambitions.\r\n\r\nThey beat two other finalists, cyber-security company Darktrace and radiotherapy pioneers Vision RT, to win the prize.\r\n\r\nPrevious winners of the innovation award, which has been run since 1969, include the creators of the CT (computerised tomography) scanner the designers of the Severn Bridge and the team at Microsoft in Cambridge that developed the Kinect motion sensor.\r\nExceeded expectations\r\n\r\nA tiny cheap computer that might encourage youngsters to learn programming was the idea of a small team of scientists and Cambridge University academics.\r\n\r\nThey hoped to sell a few thousand units, but sales have now passed 14 million, and the Pi is widely used in factories as well as in classrooms and homes.\r\n\r\nOne of the MacRobert award judges, Dr Frances Saunders, said a small engineering team had redefined home computing.', ' 00:00:00', 'BBC News', ''), (1, 'Raspberry Pi scores UK\'s top engineering award', 'The team behind the device was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering\'s MacRobert Prize at a ceremony in London last night.\r\n\r\nThe tiny computer launched in 2012.
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