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Now you can't go down a highway without seeing a solar powered road construction sign. Even with all of the price drops, solar cells are still far to expensive to movie sounds compete economically for the suburban roof market--about 3 to 4 times movie sounds as expensive as utility power in my neck of the woods. Solar cells are not movie sounds totally out of reach for ecologically minded upper-middle class people anymore though, and even without the kind of breakthroughs detailed in this article solar cells will continue to get cheaper and more common. To put it in football terms, for the last 25 years solar cells have been making steady progress of the '4 yards and a cloud of dust' variety. Given a tech breakthrough like this they could score a quick breakthrough into mainstream markets. If a breakthrough doesn't happen, then they can still get into mainstream markets eventually by finding ways to cut cost ten cents here and ten cents there, and increasing efficiency 1 or 2% by minor tech tweaks.
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