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How to Bring Solar Energy to Seven Billion People
By Solar energy | January 30, 2010
April 6, 2009 Science at the Theater talk: By exploiting the powers of nanotechnology and taking advantage of non-toxic, Earth-abundant materials, Berkeley Lab’s Cyrus Wadia has fabricated new solar cell devices that have the potential to be several orders of magnitude less expensive than conventional solar cells. And by mastering the chemistry of these materials—and the economics of solar energy—he envisions bringing electricity to the 1.2 billion people now living without it.
Topics: solar energy advantages | 3 Comments »
April 25th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
this is a great talk
April 28th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Go Solar! Go Solar!
July 3rd, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Cyrus gives a great talk, which contains an excellent framework for understanding the challenge of bringing solar energy to the entire world’s population without massive subsidies.