Featured in A look beneath the surface – 02-2011

Looking for a pension plan

Green photovoltaics: Experts discussed what to do with discarded modules at a Munich conference on recycling. Participants took away the good news that recycling modules is worthwhile at least in ecological terms, but how to pay for it is still undecided.

To some extent, the photovoltaics industry faces the question that confronts many people in their mid-thirties who, after years of careless youth, wonder for the first time what old age has in store for them. For a long time, the industry has thought only of “higher, faster, further” – more efficiency, speedier production, lower costs. …

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