Do you know that you can find solar cells for less than 1 USD per Watt on
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Do you know that you can find solar cells for less than 1 USD per Watt on
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Nope. The thin film and nano solar cell manufactories are still statups and not producing anything suitable for unloading on eBay. They claim $0.50/watt when production starts, but that doesn't seem to be happening in the near future. Panels are currently about $5/watt. Reflector type arrays average about $3/watt.
First Solar claims $1/watt but that's hype:
The $1/watt is their manufacturing cost, not their sales price. Conventional initial sales price for a new tech product is about 5 times the mfg cost, putting them exactly the same as the other vendors.
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