Solar Panels gets cheaper!

December 18th, 2007 Alex

Nanosolar Inc has begun selling the world’s lowest cost solar panels for about a dollar per watt. The company got early stage financing from Google and uses a technology that only requires a fraction of the amount of silicon needed for regular solar cells. One of the reasons solar panels are not that common is because of its cost. This could be an impressive breakthrough that will finally allow more solar panels to be installed all over the world. Nanosolar is based in San Jose, CA and develops cost-efficient 100x thinner solar cells in mass quantities at a faster rate.

via Reuters 

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