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How to Bring Solar Energy to Seven Billion People

April 6, 2009 Science at the Theater talk: By exploiting the powers of nanotechnology and taking advantage of non-toxic, Earth-abundant materials, Berkeley Lab's Cyrus Wadia has fabricated new sola...  
 
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Cyrus gives a great talk, which contains an excellent framework for understanding the challenge of bringing solar energy to the entire world's population without massive subsidies.
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Go Solar! Go Solar!
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this is a great talk

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