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Solar Sell: Companies that Mass Marketed PCs Turn to Photovoltaics
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IBM, Intel and HP—three companies that fueled the development of PCs over the past 30 years—have just made major commitments to solar energy |
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. |
POWER PLAY: IBM, Intel and Hewlett-Packard are pouring resources into making technology that will more cheaply and efficiently harvest solar energy.
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Posted by admin, filed under UCRO.org. Date: June 27, 2008, 8:28 am |
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