Nanosolar 1GW Machine

Max Dunn — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:21:00 -0700

It is so incredible it is a little hard to get my brain around. Several months ago, without any fanfare, Nanosolar showed off its new production tool that can produce 1GW (gigawatt) of solar cells per year.

To put this in perspective, most plants produce less than 100 MW (megawatts) per year, less than 1/10 of Nanosolar’s 1GW machine. For instance, here is a Masdar plant being built in Germany that will produce 70MW a year and cost $230 million. So it would take 14 of these plants to equal the output of one of the Nanosolar machines.

The cost of the Nanosolar machine? $1.65 million! This is 2,000 times less than the Masdar plant! (While this is a comparison of a production tool to an entire plant, it is still an astounding difference.)

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"Nanosolar 1GW Machine" by David

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:09:33 -0700

If solar really is that cheap, then sooner or later, it’ll be mass produced and eventually adopted. Just takes time…patience,patience.

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Nanosolar 1GW Machine

"Nanosolar 1GW Machine" by David