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Raising capital for rays of energy
Solar Breakthroughs: Innovation Economy video. 1366 Technologies co-founder (and MIT professor) Emanuel Sachs talks about improving the efficiency and lowering the cost of solar cells.
Published in boston.com, on December 14th, 2008
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Facing Leaner Times, Small Start-Ups Get Busy
A downturn in financing for alternative energy start-ups has been relentlessly forecasted since the economic crisis took hold and oil prices plummeted. At least one venture capitalist is predicting a 40 percent drop in financing for alternative energy start-ups next year, according to Greentech Media.
Published in Green Inc., on December 15th, 2008. |
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Will solar power ever be as cheap as coal?
Some predict that within five years, it could rival fossil-fuel energy.
...“There’s no doubt that we’re going to see solar as cheap as coal power a lot sooner than many people realize,” says Mr. van Mierlo, president of 1366 Technologies, standing beside an industrial furnace inside the company’s pilot manufacturing facility.
Published in Innovation, on December 4th, 2008 |
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Chasing a solar revolution in Mass.
1366 Technologies is somewhat unusual among solar start-ups in that it is pursuing a series of significant, but incremental, technology improvements to silicon solar cells. Many other start-ups are using new materials to undercut silicon on price or are developing complicated solar concentrators.
Published on October 17th, 2008. Posted in image gallery, energy. |
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1366 Technologies Opens Innovative Solar Manufacturing Facility.
Many new solar energy companies are working on silicon alternatives, but 1366 Technologies is taking a different approach— the MIT-founded company has invented both a new cell architecture for multi-crystalline solar cells and a manufacturing process to lower the cost of the cells.
Published on October 14th, 2008. Posted in alternative energy, solar energy. |
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Engineering Silicon Solar Cells to Make Photovoltaic Power Affordable.
Emanuel Sachs of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has struggled with many such little devils in his career-long endeavor to develop low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells. In his latest effort, Sachs has found incremental ways to boost the amount of electricity that common photovoltaics (PVs) generate from sunlight without increasing the costs.
From The Scientific American print edition, originally titled: "Sunny Days for Silicon".
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THE FUTURE OF ENERGY.
Another silicon valley?
...Many engineers, however, are working to change that. One of them is Emanuel Sachs of MIT. Some engineers look for big, exciting technological improvements in the way solar cells work, but Dr Sachs prefers incremental change. As he sees it, it is such change that drives Moore’s law, that well-established description of the rapid improvement in the power of computer processors.
From The Economist print edition. The rise of solar energy, in one form or another. |
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