Ampulse in collaboration with the NREL and ORNL may be making solar cells which could approach the cost of producing electricity from conventional sources!

That is right, you read this right and I didn't type it out incorrectly. Then NERL (National Renewable Energies Laboratory), ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratories), and the Ampulse Corporation have all been involved in a collaboration to produce silicon at a price which is quickly approaching the cost of conventional sources. This is ground breaking research which could allow all of us to be able to afford solar electricity for no more than what you are paying for electricity right now.

See conventional solar technology is quite a wasteful process. First of all it is so wasteful because 50% of the silicon wafers that they currently use is lost to the cutting process. A typical 2-meter boule of silicon loses as many as 6,000 potential wafers to the sawing process. But this collaboration between Ampulse and the aforementioned national laboratories solved this problem-- by using a chemical vapor deposition process to grow the silicon on inexpensive foil, Ampulse is able to make the solar cells just thick enough to convert most of the solar energy into electricity. What all of this techno babble means to me and you is that solar cells could become less expensive to all of us. I urge all of you to go here in order to learn more about this process.