Think nobody else is paying attention to the alternative energy future? Here’s a short list of some recent investments that have been made in the field of alternative energy:
Duke Energy is planning to invest over $100 million in solar panels in North Carolina
Masdar, the “clean-energy arm of the government of Abu Dhabi” will invest $2 [...]
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Looking around at some solar industry sites, I’ve realized there’s quite a bit of jargon and shorthand that I don’t fully understand yet. Overall, a cell’s crystalinity is a description of the amount of order within the cell, so a high-level of order yields a higher level of crystalinity.
Crystal-Si: Crystalline Silicon - Single Crystalline Silicon [...]
Tags: · amorphous silicon, cells, crystal-si, crystalline silicon, EERE, nano-crystalline, photovoltaic, pv, Ribbon-si, solar, thin-film solar