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A Silicon Valley start-up called Nanosolar shipped its first solar panels -- priced at $1 a watt. That's the price at which solar energy gets cheaper than coal.

While other companies have been focusing their efforts on increasing the efficiency of solar panels, Nanosolar took the different approach of focusing on manufacturing, developing a proprietary process technology that makes it possible to produce 100x thinner solar cells 100x faster.

I'm a big fan of alternative energy, if these are as durable as ordinary solar panels, I would definitely switch over.

Hopefully products like this and also Google's renewable energy initiative will get this more into the hands of the everyday folk.

It looks like Google's founders, Sergey Brin & Larry Page actually invested in Nanosolar a few years ago.

A big green thumbs-up!