Solar power as cheap as fossil fuels?

October 15, 2007, 11:11am PDT | Length: 00:06:46
Charlie Gay, general manager of Applied Materials' solarbusiness, speaks to CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica about solar industrydynamics at the Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. Gay, who has workedin the business for over 30 years, says large-scale manufacturing willbring down the price of solar electricity. Investments will result inincremental improvements in panel efficiency, rather than hugetechnology breakthroughs, he says.
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