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Cheaper Photovoltaics are on the Way !

Graph of Cost Analysis of Solar versus other Technologies

A company called 1366 Technologies may have finally broken the price barrier to allow solar energy to be as cheap as coal. This is done through improved manufacturing techniques that grow the silicon into sheets rather than physically cut in from and ingot.

This could be the breakthrough we have been waiting for to upscale into mass production.

The video can be found Here.

Via [Scientific America]

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