Found this on Slashdot today:
A Silicon Valley start-up called Nanosolar has shipped its first solar panels ??? priced at $1 a watt. Thats the price at which solar energy gets cheaper than coal. While other companies have been focusing their efforts on increasing the efficiency of solar panels, Nanosolar took a different approach. It focused on manufacturing. The company [has developed] a process to print solar cells made out of CIGS, or copper indium gallium selenide, a combination of elements....

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