"If the regulator gives some attractive incentive to solar, you can just remove the potatoes in your potato field and put in solar panels," says Pérez-Arriaga.
[The Charleston Gazette] Suntech, the world's largest producer of solar panels, says it may have been the victim of a $686 million fraud related to a European investment.
"Network-connected devices often run a basic web server to let an administrator access online control panels," says Philip Lieberman, president of security firm Lieberman Software.
"I'm not going to say we're not going to have any panels," says Todd, who envisions more two-person segments than the multiple-person segments that make a chore of television watching.
This is fairly small for a solar panel factory at such a small scale, Heliatek's panels will cost more per watt than conventional solar panels, says CEO Thibaud de Séguillon.
For Solaria is to be competitive in the long run, it will need to implement other cost-saving measures, especially improving the overall efficiency of its solar panels, says Tonio Buonassisi, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT.
