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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 11:46 AM
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New electricity generating solar cell
SUSTAINABILITY NEWS OF THE WEEK:
SOLAR POWER GETS AFFORDABLE
A new company in California's Silicon Valley has begun production on a new electricity generating solar cell that many are considering to be revolutionary. The company, Nanosolar, prints the solar cells on aluminum film in an inexpensive process that will supposedly make solar power as affordable as electricity from coal. Nanosolar says its order books are already full until 2009.
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Kip Humphrey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 12:35 PM
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1. Gives new meaning to "Tinfoil Hat"!
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 12:34 AM
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2. Think about what we've been led to believe about the electric car and
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and gas guzzling cars max mpg --- !!!

Detroit working for oil industry . . . ???!!!
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 12:37 AM
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3. I don't know why there aren't already huge solar farms throughout the southwestern deserts.
Oh wait, I do know. Fossil fuel companies squashed it. What idiots - they could have made billions of dollars on it. I read in one article somewhere that a solar farm 100 miles by 100 miles in one of the enormous deserts of Nevada or Arizona would be able to generate enough electricity for the entire Western Hemisphere.
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