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Triple green, part 4: The semiconductor cadmium telluride (CdTe) is highly controversial. But CdTe cells are unbeatably cheap and able to be produced virtually without acids or poisons. Although it sounds paradoxical, their production is much greener than some silicon cell plants.

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pv magazine

17 Sep 2010

Calm, noiseless and almost completely automated: the production lines at First Solar in Frankfurt/Oder run with the symmetry of an optimized production line. Not a single gram of material is wasted here. The floor in the vast hall is spick-and-span, and the air just as clean inside the factory as out – the reason being …

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