Imagine the consequences

Printed Solar Panels! Tomorrow's solar panels may not need to be produced in high-vacuum conditions in billion-dollar fabrication facilities. If California-based Nanosolar has its way, plants will use a nanostructured "ink" to form semiconductors, which would be printed on flexible sheets. Nanosolar is currently building a plant that will print 430 megawatts' worth of solar cells annually—more than triple the current solar output of the entire United States.

so what's the big deal you ask? Cost.....the cost of producing a solar panel will only be about 25% of todays cost. That means it will be economical enough to put on every new home and most exisiting homes and save the owners a bundle. Not to mention reducing energy consumption drastically. Want to get off the energy grid and do away with the bills that come with it...help is on the way in 2007.

And this type of technology is what is going to save us from worsening the global warming situation we are now in.

I predict (here I go again) that in 2007 we will see great advancements in greening our planet. And it will be the political hot topic for the year.