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Cheap Solar Panels Reach New Milestone

Posted: March 28th, 2008 | Author: Daniel Georges | Filed under: sideblog | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

The brains over at National Renewable Energy Lab have found a way to make those pretty thin-film cells 19.9% efficient. It isn’t quite the 42% other styles of solar cells can get, but considering these babies can be made on inkjet printers for next to nothing, it is a large step. It is great that a new world record for efficiency has been created, I just want them cheap and in a portable form (for geektastic camping).

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