Topic: Emerging Tech

Saving money with solar tech

Summary: It's not cheap to power a home these days. Could solar-energy tech be the solution? At the IntersolarNorth America exhibition in San Francisco, CNET's Kara Tsuboi finds a few products that could help bring sunshine to your wallet.

July 16, 2008 -- 12:28 GMT (05:28 PDT)

Topic: Emerging Tech

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Saving money through natural source

We all know that green energy is the future of all earthlings.

Scientist are doing a lot of inventions to generate energy from natural resource, the prices are exhorbitantly high hence a comman man like me is not able to afford / use the solutions. While I personally feel ashamed of wasting energy and not using newer technologies.

I also understand unless there is mass production, the prices won't come down. Why is that scientist not approaching the Government to implement and provide subsidy to common man, some workable solution would make sense.

I live in Chennai (India) where there is sunlight through out the day and almost everyday in a year. And the Govt has initiated 1 hour power holiday everyday to combat the shortage of power in the city. You should be selling the solution to the Govt, Iam least bothered even if they make money in the bargain. I will still be happy that we are saving the earth and its species.

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21 July, 2008 22:08

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 specific chemical-plating processes used to apply various layers of metals and form the solar cell absorber layer.
 
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 Here, we see SoloPower's proprietary plating-process machine.
 
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 solar industry is so rapid, says CEO Tim Harris, that in order to remain competitive, companies must remain adaptable.
 
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