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03.27.08Corporations Against Solar PowerOne of the things I have noticed over the past few years is the continually slow uptake of solar technology in everyday society, and I have always wondered why this is. I asked a few friends of mine why they thought we don't have solar technology embedded into nearly every device, and their answer is always the same: the high cost and low efficiency. Both of those issues seemed to be controlled by an industry against the further development of solar technology. I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but if I were an oil company, I would be willing ...
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12.21.07Nanosolar: Cheap Solar TechnologyGet Google to help fund a company, and there is very little doubt that it will be successful, and that is part of what has made Nanosolar so popular lately as it gets ready to roll a printing press that will put out solar panels that will generate power at around $1 USD per Watt. Nanosolar has raised over $150 million dollars to produce their solar cell technology which will use a new manufacturing process that actually "prints" photovoltaic material on an aluminum backing. This process is said to help cut manufacturing costs of the basic module by over eighty percent. ...
