Building Your Own Solar Panel In the Garage

jeroen8 writes "A Dutch guy was able to build his own solar panel in his garage using materials that were a third as expensive as the mass produced solar panels currently available on the European market. He bought his solar cells on eBay and used them to create his own panel. His output price is only 1.20 Euro per Watt Peak (Wp). This makes you wonder if we are paying too much for mass-produced solar panels, which should, in theory, be a lot less expensive than something you create in your garage."

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Why cant we get em cheaper?

[j35ter]

Corporate Greed

Re:Cells are NEW but also STOLEN

[interested pyro]

Also, for reference, you can expect 1000 Watt / Square meter in direct sunlight, at 15% efficiency that's still 150 Watt. That's certainly enough power to cause a fire.

there is enough energy from the sun hitting one square mile on the earth to equal the energy released from two atomic nukes exploding, and yet i dont see any mushroom clouds.....