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POPSGassy Bugs Kleiner Perkins, BASF Ventures, Oxford Bioscience, interesting, very interesting. Maybe put on future radar screen for good IPO.
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POPSSuperefficient solar cells 2x as conventional silicon cells Because energy from the sun, although abundant, is diffuse, generating one gigawatt of power (the size of a typical utility-scale plant) using traditional photovoltaics requires a four-square-mile area of silicon, says Jerry Olson, a research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden, CO. A concentrator system, he says, would replace most of the silicon with plastic or glass lenses or metal reflectors, requiring only as much semiconductor material as it would take to cover an area the size of a typical backyard.