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Over the past few years, large amounts of efforts and considerable sums of money were poured by governments into producing new generations and types of solar cells. While this may look like a good thing, industry officials say that the lack of funding for completely developing and scaling up the existing technologies is leaving them in a bit of a mess. The level of performance achieved by current solar-capturing methods is advanced enough to merit more attention and support from governments, which now seem bent on innovating the industry with complete disregard of existing achievements. These were some of the viewpoints expressed by attendants at a symposium organized last week by the National Academies, in Washington DC, in which representatives from major solar-panel manufacturers and academics participated. The main topic of the discussion was the scaling up of the solar industry, as in if this was required to continue at an alert pace or not. “This is such a fast-mo!
ving field. To some degree, we're fighting the last war. We're answering the questions from 5, 10, 15 years ago in a world where things have really changed,†the Director of the George Washington University Solar Institute, Ken Zweibel, said. Crystalline-silicon and thin-film technologies are the main ones...
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