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NEWS ARTICLE: Here Comes the Sun
CNN Money.com
(Business 2.0 Magazine)
By Tom McNichol and Michael V. Copeland
Publication Date: 3/2/07
Silicon Valley has changed the world once. Now, thanks
to a wave of investment and innovation in solar power,
it's on to the next revolution: A massive disruption
of the U.S. electricity market.
There's a missile-bunker vibe you get when walking
into Solaicx, a Silicon Valley startup that manufactures
the silicon wafers that are the building blocks of solar
panels.
In one half of the nondescript Santa Clara warehouse,
three men sit hunched on a wood platform 8 feet above
the cement floor, their eyes locked on two monitors.
The screens show data and video gathered from a 24-foot-tall
steel tower. The tower begins in a squat, gourd-shaped
base and tapers to a cannon-size column with a long
drum spinning slowly on top. Thick power cables snake
down its sides. Another sci-fi-looking tower rises up
off to one side of the building. Read
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