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PV using dedicated silicon wafers is starting about now. These wafers will have way more impurities than VLSI grade wafers, and the PV will go down a bit in yield, but the panels should be much cheaper after a couple of years (like 2-3 times per peak watt I expect). Also, they will be decoupled from VLSI economic cycles (by which production of PV basically stopped whenever their was an expansion of the microchip business, every 3 years or so)

Pierre
by Pierre on Tue Aug 14th, 2007 at 07:21:30 PM EST
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Yeah, this is definitely the big next step for PV from an economic standpoint.

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by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Wed Aug 15th, 2007 at 01:23:40 PM EST
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