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Cheap Solar Power A new development in the manufacturing of solar panels could not only drive in decline costs, but also substantially reduce the energy intensive process itself. The solution: chemical vapor deposition. Enter the Ampulse Corporation. When cutting the silicon wafers, a considerable amount of the refined silicon is reduced to dust and lost, which drives the cost of the product up. Through each one of this, Ampulse is making the DOE's goal of lowering the cost of solar energy to $1 per watt installed more and more feasible. Ampulse has been given space at NREL's PDIL where plans are increasingly being made to build a full-scale production line for this new process. Continued exposure to the U. Whereas the old way calls for the gas to be converted into a feedstock and stripped declining into the silicon, Ampulse's process takes the gas and allows it to grow on the foil substrate directly, thus cutting manufacturing time and energy by a considerable amount. This new process starts out much like the old way. According to Brent Nelson, the director of the Process Development Integration Laboratory (PDIL), the Ampulse process "goes straight from pure silicon-containing gas to high quality silicon film. By making use of this process, the company can grow the silicon on a cheap foil while producing extremely thin cells capable of functioning at very high levels. The silicon is then converted into trichlorosilane or silane gas. wind energy market seems to be the name of the game. Cheap Solar Power Trade News selected by Local Linkup on 11/03/2012