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Building the Solar Industry, Wafer by Wafer

Defecitve silicon wafers (left) are erased to make bare, gray silicon wafers for the solar industry. (Source: IBM)The demand for solar energy is expanding rapidly, but one of the industry’s obstacles to even faster growth has always been the difficulty of getting enough silicon to make photovoltaic cells for solar panels.

This week, though, IBM announced a new potential source for much-needed silicon: waste silicon wafers used to make semiconductor chips for computers,

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