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<p class=MsoNormal>FYI – a hopeful and interesting development … hopefully
Oklahoma will move more aggressively to harvest our vast potential with solar
energy soon … if not at the large utility scale level … then perhaps
in smaller citizen-owned cooperatives.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Interesting from the article about cylindrical solar cells:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style='color:#33302D'>"With a
cylinder, we are collecting light from all angles, even collecting diffuse
light," says CEO Chris Gronet …</span></i><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style='color:#33302D'>Because of the
lower installation cost, we have a clear path to grid parity." In other
words, <b><u>the newly shaped cells have the potential of harnessing solar
power at around the same price as electricity from <a
href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=coal-war"><span style='color:#0AA1DD;
background:white'>coal-fired power plant</span></a>s, currently the cheapest
generation option at around six cents per kilowatt hour. </u></b>Typical solar
photovoltaic installations, on the other hand, cost roughly 25 to 50 cents per
kilowatt-hour of electricity, roughly one half of which is related to the
expense of physically installing them.</span></i><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<h1><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Cylindrical
Solar Cells Give a Whole New Meaning to Sunroof<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h2><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Solyndra hopes
to capture the wasted sunlight falling on roofs by making solar cells into
cylinders rather than panels<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>By David
Biello <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>There
are approximately 30 billion square feet (2.8 billion square meters) of
expansive, flat roofs in the U.S., an area large enough to collect the sunlight
needed to power 16 million American homes, or replace 38 conventional
coal-fired power plants. By covering these roofs with large, flat arrays of
cylindrical <a
href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=solar-power-lightens-up-with-thin-film-cells">thin-film
solar cells</a> (think massive installations of fluorescent tubes, only
absorbing light rather than emitting it), Fremont, Calif.–based Solyndra,
Inc., hopes to harness that energy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>More
here ::: <a
href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=cylindrical-solar-cells-give-new-meaning-to-sunroof">http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=cylindrical-solar-cells-give-new-meaning-to-sunroof</a>
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shauna </span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";color:#365F91'>lawyer</span></b><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";
color:black'> struby</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
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