[Sust-mar] Panels start solar power 'revolution' - Guardian

[Stephen Caines]

 Solar energy 'revolution' brings green power closer

Panels start solar power 'revolution'

"The holy grail of renewable energy came a step closer yesterday as
thousands of mass-produced wafer-thin solar cells printed on aluminium film
rolled off a production line in California, heralding what British
scientists called "a revolution" in generating electricity."

"The solar panels produced by a Silicon Valley start-up company, Nanosolar,
are radically different from the kind that European consumers are
increasingly buying to generate power from their own roofs. Printed like a
newspaper directly on to aluminium foil, they are flexible, light and, if
you believe the company, expected to make it as cheap to produce electricity
from sunlight as from coal."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/29/solarpower.renewableenergy
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