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

[Brian Atkins]

(another company announcing $1/watt solution is here: 
http://www.oerlikon.com/ecomaXL/index.php?site=OERLIKON_EN_press_releases_detail&udtx_id=4663 
)

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/23/1639205

"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.'"

-- 
Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/