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Solar Panels Made With a Particle Accelerator?!

This video is about using particle accelerators as part of the solar panel silicon wafer manufacturing process. The accelerators embed protons into the wafer crystals, allowing them to break and separate from the main crystal in much thinner wafers with no waste silicon. Thus, monocrystalline silicon can be used, which is more efficient.

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  • Originally Aired September 19, 2017
  • Runtime 3 minutes
  • Network YouTube
  • Created September 24, 2017 by
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