Friday, 3. October 2003

Topic: SCIENCE - on October 3, 2003 at 9:10:57 PM CEST

Discovery may spur cheap solar power

A major European chip maker said this week it had discovered new ways to produce solar cells which will generate electricity twenty times cheaper than today's solar panels.

STMicroelectronics, Europe's largest semiconductor maker, said that, by the end of next year, it expected to have made the first stable prototypes of the new cells, which could then be put into production.

¬> cnn

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