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defacto7

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1. It could very well be true, but

Mon Aug 19, 2013, 07:40 PM

Aug 2013

solar cell technology has and is undergoing huge advancements and changes in materials and methods. Cells in the near future will not be anything like the old ones and are infinitely more environmentally safe from what I've read. There are many articles on the advancements in solar cell technology and you will find most of them posted on phys.org site if you care to browse.

I have no argument about the old cells having their problems with environmental safety let alone their poor performance.

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It could very well be true, but defacto7 Aug 2013 #1

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