Solar Sell: Companies that Mass Marketed PCs Turn to Photovoltaics [News]
Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 17:35
in Physics & Chemistry
Although solar cell technology for converting the sun's power into electricity has improved steadily in recent years, high costs and inefficiencies have kept it from being a serious replacement for fossil fuels. A few high-tech heavyweights--IBM, Intel and Hewlett-Packard (HP)--hope to change this using the same formula of mass production and commoditization that helped them make personal computers mainstream over the past three decades. [More]