Nanosolar Ships First Panels. 99 cents a watt.

The world’s lowest-cost solar panel – which we
believe will make us the first solar manufacturer
capable of profitably selling solar panels at as
little as $.99/Watt

After five years of product development –
including aggressively pipelined science, research
and development, manufacturing process development,
product testing, manufacturing engineering and tool
development, and factory construction – Nanosolar http://nanosolar.com has
shipped our first product and received our first check
of product revenue.

We are grateful to everyone who supported us
through all these years and the many occasions where
there appeared to be mile-high concrete walls in our
path; the unusual intensity and creativity of our
team deserves all the credit for achieving this
major milestone today.

Our product is defining in more ways I can
enumerate here but includes:

Full Story: http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2007/12/18/nanosolar-ships-first-panels/

(Many thanks to Glenn Kreisel for bringing this to our attention. Russ)

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The New Dawn of Solar

Imagine a solar panel without the panel. Just a coating, thin as a layer of paint, that takes light and converts it to electricity. From there, you can picture roof shingles with solar cells built inside and window coatings that seem to suck power from the air. Consider solar-powered buildings stretching not just across sunny Southern California, but through China and India and Kenya as well, because even in those countries, going solar will be cheaper than burning coal. That’s the promise of thin-film solar cells: solar power that’s ubiquitous because it’s cheap. The basic technology has been around for decades, but this year, Silicon Valley–based Nanosolar created the manufacturing technology that could make that promise a reality.

Full Story: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2007/green/item_59.html