Method for $1/Watt Solar Panels Will Soon See Commercial Use

An anonymous reader writes "A method developed at Colorado State University for crafting solar panels has been developed to the point where they are nearly ready for mass production. Professor W.S. Sampath's technique has resulted in a low-cost, high-efficiency process for creating the panels, which will soon be fabricated by a commercial interest. 'Produced at less than $1 per watt, the panels will dramatically reduce the cost of generating solar electricity and could power homes and businesses around the globe with clean energy for roughly the same cost as traditionally generated electricity. Sampath has developed a continuous, automated manufacturing process for solar panels using glass coating with a cadmium telluride thin film instead of the standard high-cost crystalline silicon. Because the process produces high efficiency devices (ranging from 11% to 13%) at a very high rate and yield, it can be done much more cheaply than with existing technologies.'"

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Re:Fuck this liberal environmentalist whining...

[Ziest]

Let's be like China and make electricity the man's way - with coal! And let's go back to burning leaded gasoline so we don't have to fuck with this unleaded crap that limits engine compression. Also, catalytic converters suck. I always take mine off after inspection or go to shops that don't care. Also, we need to get rid of welfare and we need George W. Bush for another eight years! And fuck solar cells. Solar cells can't even power calculators properly.

Write in George W. Bush in 2008!

Very nice. I would guess that you have never been to Perth Amboy, N.J. or Mexico City or Los Angeles in the early 70's. Why don't to travel to Mexico City when they have one of their inversions and try breathing. Now think what it would like to live there.

Oh by the way, bush can't run for president again. Thank G*D for the Twenty Second Amendment.