Ariz. Team Seeks Fossil-Fuel Cost Parity, Using Solar Energy Concentrators 245
autospa writes "A University of Arizona engineering team led by Roger Angel has designed a new type of solar concentrator that uses half the area of solar (PV) cells used by other optical devices and delivers a light output/concentration that is over 1000 times more concentrated before it even hits the cells. This comes as a result of a broader goal to make solar energy cost competitive with fossil fuels (target = 1$/W) without the 'need for government subsidization.'"
Crystal Ball (Score:3, Funny)
I always suspected that PV technology was just missing a glowing crystal ball.
To the stars, Merlin!