Innovalight has a proprietary platform, named Cougar, which can adapt existing solar cell manufacturing processes that companies now own, to their cheaper silicon ink solar cells production line. There is only one step that needs to be added to current manufacturing lines, with -they say- huge profits.

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Solar research received a nice boost from Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Earth Day. The Department of Energy allocated $200 million for research and development of solar power and a variety of water power technologies. The funding is aimed less at discovering new innovations and more toward improving processes to accelerate the path to commercialization [...]

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Norma Alcantar and her colleagues extracted the cactus’s mucilage – the thick gum that the plant uses to store water, and mixed it with water to which they had added dirt (sediments and bacteria – Bacillus cereus).

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