Scrap Silicon to Solar Cells
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November 14, 2007
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Download video directlyThe National Pollution Prevention Roundtable recently gave its Most Valuable Pollution Prevention award to IBM for developing and implementing a chemical-free process to reuse scrap silicon wafers or sell them to solar cell manufacturers. By sharing the technology, IBM hopes to turn the estimated 3 million silicon wafers discarded worldwide annually into enough solar cells to power 6,000 homes.
