Students build affordable solar home

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Solar pathways for home-building too expensive? Not all of them. Here is a Martin LaMonica story worth reading.

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Solar Technology Worth Seeing

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Used with permission from CBS Interactive, Inc., Copyright 2009 All rights reserved.

Used with permission from CBS Interactive, Inc., Copyright 2009 All rights reserved.

A diffusion furnace at 1366 Tech’s pilot lab. This piece of equipment, which uses phosphorous gas to treat the surface of silicon wafers, is typically used in solar manufacturing plants. The company, however, is developing its own manufacturing equipment to create what it calls a new “cell architecture.”

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Caption by Martin LaMonica