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It is estimated that, worldwide, three million silicon wafers are discarded to landfills each year, creating a pollution problem. Now, IBM engineers have developed a way to recover the scrap wafers and, at the same time, solve a raw material shortage in the solar cell industry. This video explains why the wafer-to-solar panel program received the "2007 Most Valuable Pollution Prevention Award."
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Re: "Repurposed" Wafers Capture the Sun
