ApocaDocs: Cylindrical Solar Cells Give a Whole New Meaning to Sunroof

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Posted Tue Oct 7 2008: from Scientific American:


	Cylindrical Solar Cells Give a Whole New Meaning to Sunroof http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1223403257 There are approximately 30 billion square feet (2.8 billion square meters) of expansive, flat roofs in the U.S., an area large enough to collect the sunlight needed to power 16 million American homes, or replace 38 conventional coal-fired power plants. By covering these roofs with large, flat arrays of cylindrical thin-film solar cells (think massive installations of fluorescent tubes, only absorbing light rather than emitting it), Fremont, Calif.–based Solyndra, Inc., hopes to harness that energy....the newly shaped cells have the potential of harnessing solar power at around the same price as electricity from coal-fired power plants, currently the cheapest generation option at around six cents per kilowatt hour.

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The ApocaDocs say:

Only the NMR (Not on My Roof) people will take issue with this.