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Astronauts on the space station had a tele conference with President Obama and a group of school children. The president told the astronauts how much he admired the work they were doing. They had just finished installing a new array of solar panels that attached onto the space station. This new power meant they [...]

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First Solar has solar power plants in the US, Germany and Malaysia. They have reached this milestone, and are now looking to grow even more in the coming months and years. 1GW of energy a year is similar to that supplied by a normal sized nuclear power plant. What’s particularly significant is that half [...]

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To understand how photovoltaics work, you first need to understand a bit about solar energy. Basically, sunlight is loaded with photons. Think of these as little packages of solar energy. Photovoltaics are silicon panels that turn this sun power into electricity.
When the photons from sunlight hit a silicon molecule, they knock loose one of its [...]

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Thin Film Solar is one of the fastest growing areas in the solar panel market. This has a lot to do with the cost of thin film photovoltaic.
Thin film is cheaper than traditional silicon panels. There are several reasons for this.
One is that thin film solar cells use a lot less of the material that make makes [...]

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