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First Solar is a local company as is Xunlight. We have done work for both. Both rely on basically semiconductor technology to apply precious metals to the solar cells. The process is extremely expensive...without govt subsidies, the technology is not cost effective. As it stands now, it would cost nearly $40,000 to install on the average home..... Even if the cost could be reduced by half (highly unlikely), I can't foresee anyone but a relatively small number of wealthy treehuggers paying through the nose for this insignificant form of electricity.
Basically the only substantial way to make large quantities of electricity is to spin large generators. Presently steam is the most cost effective method to drive large generators. Coal and nuclear reactors do this well.
Wind and hydroelectric plants can probably be cost effective, but large scale worldwide affordable power generation is probably best attained by nuclear reactors producing steam to drive large generators.
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